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.
16 August
1735 Johan Friedrich WOLF was born in Germany, son of Johan Jacob Wolf & Anna Barbara Orth. He married Maria Elizabeth. They had eight children. They lived in Pennsylvania.
1852 Jacob Herman WOLF, son of Henry H Wolf
1880 Emma May MILLER
17 August
1917 George Wheeler MORRIS was the son of George A Morris & Mary Louise Fortenberry.
18 August
1887 Lucy THORNHILL
1888 Fleet Eugene SMITH, son of Walter Lorraine Smith & Emma Julia Warren
1893 Emma E. FORTENBERRY, daughter of Thomas Benton Fortenberry
1897 Mavis Marie BROWN, born in Mississippi, daughter of Jasper Pascal Brown & Rose Ella Brumfield. She married Denny Herbert Smith. Children: Nathalee, Fay & Wilma.
1915 Alvin Henry BRAUN
19 August
1920 Roseanne S VOZELLA , daughter of Charles & Lucia Vozella. She married Thomas J. Coyle. They had five children.
21 August
1769 John Jacob WOLF
1883 Thomas Arthur COYLE was born in County Cavan, Ireland, son of Patrick Coyle & Margaret Brady. Thomas was a carpenter who became a Merchant Marine during World War II. He did not marry.
1923 Oliver Wendell BRUMFIELD
1928 David Walter FOSS
22 August
1778 Joanna DILLON was born in North Carolina, daughter of Richard Dillon & Anne Lawrence. She married Jeremiah Smith in 1798 in South Carolina. They had thirteen children. She is my double 4th great grandmother. Joanna & Jeremiah appear twice in my forest of family trees.
1829 Jeremiah WOLF, son of Andrew Wolf & Catherine Dick
1892 Ruth Straley WOLF, daughter of Frederick Jacob Wolf
23 August
1805 Anna Maria RITTER
1854 Vilete Permelia FORTENBERRY, born in Mississippi, daughter of Willis James & Louisa B. Fortenberry. She died in 1910.
1863 Montana RITTER, son of Daniel Ritter
1872 William John WOLF, son of William Henry Harrison Wolf & Sarah E. Forst
1882 Ella MARK, daughter of David Mark & Mary Ann Clason
1921 Helen M Lanning WOLF
24 August
1850 Justina WOLF
1871 Charles H. MILLER was born in Ohio, son of Henry C Miller & Mary Catherine Ritter. Children: Ethel & Elmer. Charles died in 1949.
25 August
1891 Rosa Jane OTT was the daughter of William W. Ott & Sarah Euseba Ellzey. She was my second cousin twice removed.
26 August
1697 Anna Barbara ORTH
1884 William Wellington HAWK was born in Ohio, son of William Hawk & Elizabeth Ritter.
1885 Wiley E MCDANIEL
1897 Jessie Ola HALL
27 August
1937 Robert RODGERS was the son of Tom Rodgers & Caroline V. Brophy. He married Lynette. Children: Robin & Kitty.
28 August
1800 John Adam WOLF, son of John Frederick Wolf & Esther Barbara Shaffer
1913 Fannie Chelottie BRUMFIELD
29 August
1817 Margaret C BROWN, born in Mississippi, daughter of Moses Brown & Nancy Perkins.
1914 Irma Ruby BLADES
30 August
1856 Julia Ann ALFORD, born in Mississippi, daughter of Edwin Barksdale Alford & Martha P Smith. She was my second great grand aunt.
1912 Evelyn Devoyx ELLZEY
31 August
1809 Wyatt SMITH, son of Jeremiah George Smith & Joanna Dillon, husband of Euseba Fortenberry. He was my 3x great grandfather.
1848 Violette Eliza FORTENBERRY, born in Mississippi, daughter of Gasua C Fortenberry & Sarah Brown. She married James Miles Thornhill. They had five children. She died in 1917 in Mississippi.
1917 Ralph Lawrence SPICE
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