Tuesday, July 1, 2025

July Family Birthdays, July 1 - 15

  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                     
1876       Clementine Florence WOLF b. in Ohio, daughter of Joseph Wolf & Anna Eliza Kohr

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





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