Is your birthday coming soon? Happy Birthday!
Maybe you share your special day with someone in our family who came before. Look below and see. I posted this series back in 2011. This version has been updated with more information. I hope you find it as much fun as I do.
Even if it is not your birthday, look at the highlighted SURNAMES. Maybe you will see a name from your family & learn a little more about them.
Click on the links to learn more about the people & places.
1 October
1894 Hubert Allen BROWN was born in Mississippi, son of Jasper Pascal Brown & Rose Ella Brumfield. He married Freddie Smith in 1920. They had six children. Hubert was a veteran of World War II. He was a farmer. He died in 1971.
1932 Robert M. BERISWELL
2 October
1847 Jesse L. ALFORD was born in Louisiana, son of Reverend Warren Jackson Alford & Celia Ann Lewis. He died in 1911.
1850 William Jesse FORTENBERRY, son of Alfred Fortenberry & Aderine Faulk
1867 Harrison H. BURCH
3 October
1880 Alice Leota HEACOCK was born in Ohio. She married William M. Mark, son of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter. They were married in 1899 and had seven children.
1932 Genevieve Audry Brown Wieland, OH. Daughter of Roy Jessie Brown and Ivy Regina Mark. Third of seven children. The family moved to New York State c 1940. Genny was a teacher and mother of four. My aunt
4 October
1847 Ira Newton ALFORD was born in Louisiana, son of Ira Payne Alford & Elizabeth Hope. He married Samantha Ott. They had seven children.
1907 Mirian M. MINTER
5 October
1800 Susanna RITTER, daughter of Johannes Ritter & Maria Heffelfinger
1819 Joanna SMITH, daughter of Jeremiah George Smith
1851 John Narvel FORETNBERRY was born in Mississippi, son of Burrell Taylor Fortenberry & Eliza Jane Ellzey. He married Eliza Jane Smith. He died in 1920.
6 October
1892 Elizabeth Lodema MOORE was born in Ohio, daughter of Peter Jonathan Moore & Caroline Louise Gruissy. She married Albert Edward Good. They had six children: Ethel, Catherine, Harold, Joel, Margaret & Helen.
7 October
1745 Richard DILLON was born in Norfolk, Virginia, son of James Theopilous Dillon & Mary Dillon. They were married about 1776. They were my 5x great grandparents. They had eight children. Richard died in Mississippi in 1833.
8 October
1932 Elvera Lucile WILSON was the daughter of Thomas Clarence Wilson & Euna Clarabelle Fortenberry. She’s my fourth cousin, once removed.
9 October
1805 Jane SMITH, daughter of Jeremiah George Smith
1873 Isaac J. WOLF, son of Peter Alfred Wolf
1917 Joel Moore GOOD was born in Ohio, son of Albert Edward Good & Elizabeth Lodema Moore. Joel married Helen Delores Janisky in 1942. They had five children.
10 October
1842 George Washington WOLF was the son of Frederick Wolf & Louisa C. Goetz. He married Margaret Ann Culp in 1864. Their son was Joseph William Wolf.
1879 Elmer Howard WILSON
1881 Elizabeth SHIFFERLY
11 October
1807 John Seaborn ALFORD & Seaborn John ALFORD were twin brothers born in North Carolina, sons of Julius Alford & Lucy Newton. Seaborn John died in 1884 in Mississippi. John Seaborn died in 1891 in Louisiana.
1872 Lynnie Blanche SMITH
12 October
1848 Ruth Anna SCOTT married John William Ritter in 1871 in Ohio. He was the son of Isaac Ritter and Isabell Fisher. They had eight children. Ruth died in 1900.
1857 Joseph Millen NEE
1927 Gordon Eugene JOLLIFF
13 October
1928 Margaret Louise GOOD was born in Ohio. She married Howard Wendal Hixon. Four children: Howard, Harold, Patricia & Kathleen.
1774 Maragaretha RITTER, daughter of Casper Ritter
15 October
1845 Needham Edwin ALFORD was born in Mississippi, son of Rev. Warren Jackson Alford & Celia Ann Lewis. In 1869 he married Mary Luzina Stafford. They had twelve children.
1862 James Miles THORNHILL
