February Family Birthdays, February 1 - 15

 Is your birthday in February? Maybe you share your special day with someone in our family who came before. Look below and see. Happy Birthday!

I posted this series in 2011. This version has been updated with more information. 

I hope you find it as much fun as I do.

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1 February    

1787    Nancy PERKINS was the second wife of Moses Brown. His first wife, Sarah                     Robertson, died in 1810 in Georgia. She had four children. She was my 4th great grandmother. Nancy had seven children, 4 daughters and 3 sons. 

1861    Euseba FORTENBERRY, daughter of Alfred Fortenberry & Aderine M Faulk

1884    Clara Estella WOLF

      

2 February    

1805    Christian BROWN, daughter of Moses Brown & Sarah Robertson, wife of                         William M. Fortenberry

1842    Samuel RITTER, son of John B. Ritter & Mary Kemmerer

1853    Samuel WOLF

1856    Sarah Euseba Elizabeth ELLZEY

1906    Otera PIERCE, married Lynn Elias Blades

 1915    Francis WEISBERG was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Frank Samuel                 Weisberg & Florence Gartner. He was my first cousin, once removed.  He was a                 furniture salesman at one time. Late in life he moved to Florida.

3 February    

1717    Maria Magdalena WOLF

1792    Jacob RITTER, son of Martin Ritter & Anna Margaret Steininger, husband of Anna Bogert; lived 38 years; father of 4 

1924    Harold Jay NEE b in Ohio, the son of Roy Edward Nee and Isabell Esther  Mark. He and his wife, Pauline, had four children.  He served in the US  Army during World War II.

4 February    

1932    Dick Alvin PARKER, born in Ohio, the son of Ralph Alvin Parker & Nellie                         Irene Jolliff. Dick and his wife, Bonita, had three children.

5 February    

1810    Sarah BROWN,  b in Georgia, daughter of Moses Brown and Sarah                                     Robertson. She married Gasua Chapman Fortenberry. They had nine children. Sarah died in 1883 in Mississippi.

1890    Harvey Allen RITTER, son of Anthony Casper Ritter & Emma Alice Mowrer

1899    Nellie Lavinia MESSMORE, daughter of William Henry Messmore & Susan Isabel Ritter, wife of James Bigler

1928    Donald Ray BROPHY

6 February    

1886    Edward MESSMORE

1936    Loyal David NOTHSTEIN

1925    James Joseph COYLE b in CT, son of James Joseph Coyle & Madeline Herbst.                 He married Barbara Kozlak. They had three children. 

7 February   

 1777    Moses BROWN was one of eight children of Edward Brown. He died 27                         February 1838 in Mississippi. He was my 4th great grandfather. 

1828    Aderine Mary FAULK, wife of Alfred Fortenberry

1857    Barbary Ann RITTER, daughter of Isaac Ritter & Isabell Fisher

1880    James Benton MARK, son of David Mark & Mary Ann Clason

1884    Lulu Mabel HAWK, daughter of William Hawk & Elizabeth Ritter

8 February    

1775    Johan Jonas WOLF, son of Johann Jonas Wolf & Appollonia Dick

1887    Catherine MULLANE was born in Ireland, was one of twelve children of Daniel             Mullane and Brigid English.  

1890    Roger T. ELLZEY, son of William Franklin Ellzey & Mary Elizabeth Gatlin

9 February 

1819    Margaret BRUMFIELD, born in Louisiana, daughter of Willis Brumfield                         and Nancy Virginia Holmes. She married John Seaborn ALFORD, son  of Jacob Alford and Frances Seaborn.

1920    Virginia Caroline MOORE, daughter of Floyd Bernard Moore & Anna Slaby

10 February  

1891    Infant Girl ALFORD,  born in Mississippi, the 12th child of Needham Edwin                 Alford & Mary Luzina Stafford. The baby died on the day she was born.

1905    Homer Grant SHEETS, husband of Mary Mildred Jolliff

11 February  

1828    Henrietta C. RITTER, daughter of Daniel Ritter & Lydia Knauss

1883    Emaline Floy MOORE, b in Ohio, daughter of Peter Jonathan Moore &                         Caroline Louise Gruissy. On 14 February 1901 she married Arther Spice. 

12 February 

1773    Adam WOLF, son of Johann Jonas Wolf & Appollonia Dick

1797    Jonas MOYER

1825    Hollis Horton FORTENBERRY, son of William Jasper Fortenberry & Violette Kennington

1877    William M. MARK, son of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter, lived his life                 in Ohio

1896    Earnest T. ELLZEY

1938    Peggy BROWN was the daughter of Hubert Allen Brown & Freddie Smith.                     She married George Alford. She was my father’s first cousin. 

       

13 February   

 1840    William Franklin FORTENBERRY b in MS, son of Gasua C Fortenberry & Sarah Brown.  He married Mariah B. Hall. He was known as  ‘Black Frank’.

1852    Howell K. FORTENBERRY, husband of Mary Ann Alford

1872    Bernard COYLE, son of Patrick Coyle & Margaret Brady

1895    Ralph William WOLF, son of Charles Albert Wolf

14 February    

1804    George KRICK, husband of Anna Hoover

1811    Eliza SMITH, b Mississippi, one of thirteen children of Jeremiah Smith &                         Joanna Dillon.  She died 6 April 1837, at the age of 26.

1860    Salena Lena BLADES, daughter of Benjamin Blades & Hollander E. Morris

1910    Margaret Mary BRADY, daughter of Bartholomew Anthony Brady

15 February    

1839    Jesse Alexander BRUMFIELD, son of Jesse K Brumfield & Hannah A Youngblood

1879    Lemuel Q. FORTENBERRY

1904    Effie Margaret CARTER, born in Ohio, daughter of Frank Carter & Sadie                     Mapes. She married James Everett Mark on 31 December 1924. They had 11                     children. 

1905    Floy Alma SPICE, daughter of Arthur Spice & Lafayette, Medina, Ohio, USA

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