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 July
2 July
1865 Amanda Adarene FORTENBERRY b. in Mississippi, daughter of William J. Fortenberry & Elizabeth Martha Cutrer. She married William S. Ellzey c. 1883. Amanda was the mother of ten children. She died in 1949.
1881 Edith Edna RITTER
3 July
1825 Rees P. BROWN b. in Mississippi, one of seven children of Moses Brown & Nancy Perkins. Children: Samantha & Anna Brown.
1866 Elizabeth Ellen NEE
4 July Independence Day
1823 Nathan RITTER, son of Jacob Ritter, husband of Hannah Schantz
1940 William Andrew MARK b in Ohio, son of Charles Forest Mark & Bertha Flickinger. Married Linda Lou Danner. Children: Robin, Michelle & William Mark.
5 July
1879 William Isaac RITTER b. in Ohio, son of John William & Ruth Anna (Scott) Ritter. He married Louise Sophia Schultz. They had six children.
1885 Spencer Sylvester McDANIEL
6 July
1753 Elizabeth RITTER
1879 Willie Edgar SMITH was the son of Walter Lorraine Smith & Emma Julia Warren. He died in 1879 at the age of 13.
1927 Vern James SIMONS
1935 Virginia Burton NEE
7 July
1831 Richard WOLF, son of Andrew Wolf
1884 George B. WOLF
1900 Lola Dean FORTENBERRY was the daughter of Joseph Gazie Fortenberry & Corine McDaniel.
1920 Elnora Marie RITTER
8 July
1800 Hollander SMITH
1857 Alfred FORTENBERRY Jr.
1889 Carrie Belle WOLF
1937 James Paul BALL b. in Louisiana, son of James Alton Ball & Mildred Olga Brown. He married Wreatha Jean Sorrell. Children: David, Roger, James & Lisa Ball.
9 July
1852 Albert Harrison BALLIET b. in Pennsylvania, son of Stephen Ballet & Ann Lowrey. He married Josephine Edna Ebert. He died in 1907 in New York State.
1870 Joseph Gazie FORTENBERRY
1939 Frederick Ralph BROPHY
10 July
1795 Lydia KNAUSS, wife of Daniel Ritter
1894 John Ellsworth HAWK b. in Ohio, son of William Hawk & Elizabeth Ritter. He married Ethel Miller.
11 July
1787 Jonathan RITTER, son of Johann Daniel Ritter
1852 Eliza H. MORRIS
1878 Mayme Indiana SIMMONS
1894 June THORNHILL son of James Miles & Violette Eliza (Fortenberry) Thornhill. June died in 1910 at the age of 16 in Mississippi.
12 July
1789 Needham Judge ALFORD
1872 Louis Flemon ALFORD b. in Louisiana, son of Needham Edwin Alford & Mary Luzina Strafford. He died in 1938.
13 July
1938 Charles Philip MORRIS
14 July
1864 John BRADY b. in Cavan, Ireland, son of Thomas Brady & Catherine Gibney. He married Mary McCartin. Children: Thomas, Bernard & John Brady all born in New Jersey. John Brady was my 2nd great grand uncle.
1891 Irene Elizabeth ELLZEY
1915 Ruth Ann RITTER
15 July
1816 Mehala SMITH
1842 Mary Elizabeth FORTENBERRY
1872 Catherine BRADY
1875 Helen E. VOELKER
1920 Jerry Sidney COMEAUX
1932 Patricia Ann BROCK lived her life in Mississippi where she married Fay Seward Smith, son of Denny Herbert Smith & Mavis Marie Brown. Their children: Patricia, Michael & Kim Smith. Patricia & Fay were warm, generous people who showed us hospitality when we visited them in Mississippi. Patricia helped with my genealogy research & with the Alford Family Association.
