Wednesday, October 1, 2025

October Birthdays, October 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 October            
1894       Hubert Allen BROWN was born in Mississippi, son of Jasper Pascal BrownRose Ella Brumfield. He married Freddie Smith in 1920. They had six children. Hubert was a veteran of World War II. He was a farmer. He died in 1971.
 1932       Robert M. BERISWELL

2 October            
1847       Jesse L. ALFORD was born in Louisiana, son of Reverend Warren Jackson Alford & Celia Ann Lewis. He died in 1911.
1850       William Jesse FORTENBERRY, son of Alfred Fortenberry & Aderine Faulk
1867       Harrison H. BURCH

3 October            
1880       Alice Leota HEACOCK was born in Ohio. She married William M. Mark, son of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter. They were married in 1899 and had seven children.
1932     Genevieve Audry Brown Wieland, OH. Daughter of Roy Jessie Brown and Ivy Regina Mark. Third of seven children. The family moved to New York State c 1940. Genny was a teacher and mother of four. My aunt

4 October            
1847       Ira Newton ALFORD was born in Louisiana, son of Ira Payne Alford & Elizabeth Hope.  He married Samantha Ott. They had seven children.
1907       Mirian M. MINTER

5 October             
1800       Susanna RITTER, daughter of Johannes Ritter & Maria Heffelfinger
1819       Joanna SMITH, daughter of Jeremiah George Smith
1851       John Narvel FORETNBERRY was born in Mississippi, son of Burrell Taylor Fortenberry & Eliza Jane Ellzey. He married Eliza Jane Smith. He died in 1920.

6 October            
1892       Elizabeth Lodema MOORE was born in Ohio, daughter of Peter Jonathan Moore & Caroline Louise Gruissy. She married Albert Edward Good. They had six children: Ethel, Catherine, Harold, Joel, Margaret & Helen.

7 October            
1745       Richard DILLON was born in Norfolk, Virginia, son of James Theopilous Dillon & Mary Dillon. They were married about 1776. They were my 5x great grandparents. They had eight children. Richard died in Mississippi in 1833.

8 October            
1932       Elvera Lucile WILSON was the daughter of Thomas Clarence Wilson & Euna Clarabelle Fortenberry. She’s my fourth cousin, once removed. 

9 October            
1805       Jane SMITH, daughter of Jeremiah George Smith
1873       Isaac J. WOLF, son of Peter Alfred Wolf 
 1917       Joel Moore GOOD was born in Ohio, son of Albert Edward Good & Elizabeth Lodema Moore. Joel married Helen Delores Janisky in 1942. They had five children. 

10 October          
1842       George Washington WOLF was the son of Frederick Wolf & Louisa C. Goetz. He married Margaret Ann Culp in 1864. Their son was Joseph William Wolf.
 1879       Elmer Howard WILSON
 1881       Elizabeth SHIFFERLY

11 October          
1807       John Seaborn ALFORD & Seaborn John ALFORD were twin brothers born in North Carolina, sons of Julius Alford & Lucy Newton.  Seaborn John died in 1884 in Mississippi. John Seaborn died in 1891 in Louisiana.
1872       Lynnie Blanche SMITH

12 October          
1848       Ruth Anna SCOTT married John William Ritter in 1871 in Ohio. He was the son of Isaac Ritter and Isabell Fisher. They had eight children.  Ruth died in 1900.
1857       Joseph Millen NEE
1927       Gordon Eugene JOLLIFF

13 October          
1928       Margaret Louise GOOD was born in Ohio. She married Howard Wendal Hixon. Four children: Howard, Harold, Patricia & Kathleen.
1774       Maragaretha RITTER, daughter of Casper Ritter

15 October          
1845       Needham Edwin ALFORD was born in Mississippi, son of Rev. Warren Jackson Alford & Celia Ann Lewis. In 1869 he married Mary Luzina Stafford. They had twelve children.
1862       James Miles THORNHILL





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