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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