Saturday, August 16, 2025

August Birthdays, August 16 - 31

 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
1915    Harold Edward GOOD was born in Ohio, son of Albert E Good & Elizabeth Lodema Moore. He married Velma Ellen Hale in 1936. Children: Carol & Lawrence.

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. 
1833    Saryntha A SMITH, daughter of Wyatt SmithEuseba Fortenberry
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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