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Monday, December 1, 2025

December Birthdays, December 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 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 SmithMavis 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








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