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 December
1817 Daniel RITTER, son of Henry Ritter & Lydia Knappenberger
1886 James Monroe OTT, son of William W. Ott & Sarah Euseba Elizabeth Ellzey
1888 William Clarence BROPHY
2 December
1890 Eslie Guy MARK, b Ohio, son of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter. He served in World War I. He was a painter. In 1922 he married Golda Mae Warner. They were married for more than 50 years. They had three children: Guy, Glenn & Dana.
3 December
1809 Euseba FORTENBERRY was born in South Carolina, daughter of William Jasper Fortenberry & Violette Kennington. Euseba married Wyatt Smith. They were my third great grandparents. They had nine children.
1810 Barbary RITTER, daughter of Johannes Ritter Jr. & Anna Mariah Ritter
1872 Corine McDANIEL
4 December
1777 Johann Heinrich RITTER, son of Johannes Ritter Sr. & Maria Elisabeth Keck, husband of Magdalena Brouse
1842 William George SMITH
1883 Dixie B. SCHILLING
1884 Lillian Vera MOORE was born in Ohio, daughter of Peter Jonathan Moore & Caroline Louise Gruissy. She married Ernest Elliott Lowe on 22 September 1966. He was a farmer. Their daughter was Jessie Mary Lowe
1897 Elam MILLER
5 December
1810 Adam WOLF, son of Adam Wolf
1828 Louisa Margany JAMES married Hollis Horton Fortenberry. Their son was H. K. Fortenberry.
1853 William Jackson FORTENBERRY, son of Burrell Taylor Fortenberry
6 December
1899 TWINS: Paul & Pauline MORRISON, born in Ohio, children of Seth Benner Morrison & Margaret Jane Gruissy. Paul married Elnore Marguerite Castor and had one daughter. Pauline married Elmer Maurer and had five children. Paul died in 1960 at the age of 60. Pauline died in 1979 at the age of 79.
1921 Fay Seward SMITH, son of Denny Herbert Smith & Mavis Marie Brown, husband of Patricia Ann Brock. He was a kind and gentle man who helped me withy genealogy research.
7 December
1866 Morgana Dean THOMPSON
1912 Glen Ralph BROPHY
1925 Ellen Pearl ELLZEY was the daughter of Grady Henry Ellzey & Bertha Fortenberry. She married James Conrad McDaniel. They had two children.
8 December
1785 Jacob RITTER, son of Johannes Ritter Sr.
1854 Jeptha Josephus ALFORD, b in Mississippi, son of Ira Payne Alford & Elizabeth Hope. He married Olevia Luminda Fortenberry. Their son was George Howard Alford.
1871 Samuel Martin JOLLLIFF
9 December
1814 William John FORTENBERRY, son of William Jasper Fortenberry
1843 Isaac Ezra WOLF, b in Pennsylvania, son of John Jonas Wolf & Sarah Ann Chronister. He married Mary Cathrina Wireman in 1866. Their son was Clarence Lee Guy Wolf (1875 – 1945).
10 December
1898 Nonie Dola VARADO married Napoleon Blades, son of William Ephraim Blades & Morgana Josephine McDaniel.
11 December
1820 Cynthia Ann ALFORD, daughter of Edwin Barksdale Alford
1878 Hope RITTER
1888 Albert GARTNER was my grand uncle, brother of my maternal grandfather, Nathaniel Gardner. My mother, Alberta Joy (Gardner) Brown was named for Albert. Albert was a nurse who died c 1920 from complications of Diabetes.
12 December
1777 Anna Mariah RITTER
1921 Helen Virginia SAMPSEL married Ernest Miles Mark, son of Amos Martin & Lillian Myrtle (Hoverstock) Mark. They were married on 22 February 1946 in Ohio. They had four children.
13 December
1895 Ottilia LOBAUGH was the daughter of John Adam & Christine (Wolf) Lobaugh.
14 December
1891 Grady Henry ELLZEY was the son of William Franklin & Mary Elizabeth (Gatlin) Ellzey. He married Bertha Fortenberry. Children: Wesley P. Ellzey, Odean Ellzey, Carell James Ellzey and Ellen Pearl Ellzey. Grady was my second cousin, twice removed.
1914 LaVerne ELLZEY
1916 Anna Belle HEIGLE
15 December
1836 Twins: Martha M. and Mary Magdalene BROWN, born in Mississippi, daughters of Edward S. Brown & Mary Polly Spurlock.
1857 Susan A. Ryals FORTENBERRY
1885 Edgar John ELLZEY
