Monday, September 1, 2025

September Birthdays, September 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 September      
1863       Emma WOLF was born in Ohio, daughter of John Franklin Wolf and Caroline Orwig.  She married C. Prentice Waldo. Their children: Lydia, Winfred, Waylan & Blake.
1906       E. J. FORTENBERRY, son of Lemuel Q. Fortenberry & Lillian Ellzey

3 September      
1773       Catherine Eva RITTER, born in Pennsylvania, daughter of Johannes Ritter & Maria Elisabeth Keck. She married Henry Romig.  Seven children: Jonathan, Henry, Maria, Jesse, Charles, Susan & Lea.                         
1846       Margaret Ann WOLF, daughter of John Franklin Wolf & Elisabeth Burkholder
1853       Julia Jane SIMMONS
1927       Doyle Alton BALL, son of James Alton Ball & Mildred Olga Brown

4 September      
1717       Julius ALFORD was born in Virginia, son of James Alford. He married Lucy Newton. They had seven children.  He died in 1771 in North Carolina. He was my 5x great grandfather. 
1880       William H. LOBAUGH

5 September      
1830       Eliza Jane ELLZEY was born in Mississippi, daughter of John & Elizabeth Ellzey. In 1850 she married Burrell Taylor Fortenberry. Their children: John, William, Henry, Benjamin & Luke.  She died in 1899.
1882       William Stuart WOLF, son of Peter Alfred Wolf & Mary Elizabeth Adams
1923       Clyde Earl PURDY

6 September      
1861       Edwin MARK was born in Ohio, the 8th son of Abraham Mark & Mary Isabella Heffelfinger. He repaired shoes at the Miller Shoe Store. He died in 1920. 
1863       Emma S. KRICK
1893       Lottie Lee BRUMFIELD, daughter of Isaac Nelson Brumfield & Sarah Smith

7 September      
1872       John Andrew GRUISSY lived his short life in Ohio. He was the only son of Augustus Ceaser Gruissy & Esther Barbara Wolf. He died in 1878. He may have died from diphtheria.
1873       John Franklin WOLF, son of John W. S. Wolf & Elizabeth Jane Anderson
1887       Annie Clotee CUTRER
1891       Robert E. BALLARD
1930       Madeline Mary COYLE, daughter of James Joseph Coyle & Madeline Herbst

8 September      
1878       Jonas E. LOBAUGH
1896       Maud Mavis FORTENBERRY was one of twelve children of Joseph Gazie Fortenberry & Corine McDaniel. 

9 September      
1780       John HOOVER
1804       Frederick WOLF was youngest of nine children of John Franklin Wolf & Elisabeth Burkholder.
1824       Charles B. RITTER, son of Martin Ritter & Anna Margaret Bogert

10 September   
1826       Frank B. ELLZEY
 1847       Robert L. SIMMONS
 1849       Lacey Ann ALFORD, daughter of Warren Jackson Alford & Celia Ann Lewis
 1915       Caroline Veda BROPHY, born in Ohio, daughter of William Clarence Brophy & Frances Gertrude Moore.  She married Tom Rodgers. They had two children. 

11 September   
1812       Stephen BALLIET, born in Pennsylvania, son of Joseph & Susan (Green) Balliet. In 1836 he married Ann Lowrey. Their son was Albert Harrison Belliet.
1828       Samuel A. BLACKWELL

12 September   
1819       Warren Jackson ALFORD, son of Edwin Barksdale Alford & Martha P. Smith
1873       Thomas Lemuel ALFORD, son of Needham Edwin Alford & Mary L. Stafford
 1888       Emily Augusta MORRISON was born in Ohio, daughter of Seth Benner Morrison & Margaret Jane Gruissy. In 1904 she married Frank Peters. Their children were Margaret & Seth. 

13 September   
1831       Emmaline SMITH was born in Mississippi. She was my 2nd great – grandmother in my father’s family  tree. She was the daughter of Wyatt Smith & Euseba Fortenberry.  In 1858 she married Allen Moses Brown. Their children: Mary, Jasper Pascal & Alvira. Allen probably died soon after Alvira’s birth. 
1853       Walter Lorraine SMITH

14 September   
1833       Armanda Miranda FORTENBERRY, daughter of Gasua Chapman Fortenberry & Sarah Brown; wife of Lorenzo Dow Snell
1877       George A. MORRIS married Mary Louise Fortenberry, daughter of Thomas Benton Fortenberry & Gabriella Sanders. They had seven children: Willie, Boyce, Theodore Roosevelt, Delphin, George, Lank & Pershing Hoover. George died in 1943.
1908       Nolan SMITH

15 September   
1858       Rebecca Eleanor RITTER was born in Pennsylvania, the second of seven children of Daniel Ritter & Annette Romich. 






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