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.
16 October
1836 Louisa Ollevia FORTENBERRY, daughter of Gasua Chapman Fortenberry
1868 Margaret NEE
1888 Lucy Viola BROWN was born in Mississippi, daughter of Jasper Pascal Brown & Rose Ella Brumfield. She married Tate Edward Fortenberry in 1908. Their children: Kenneth, Shirley & Cecil.
17 October
1871 Algedena GRUISSY was the second child of Augustus Ceaser Gruissy & Esther Barbara Wolf. She died in Ohio the year she was born. Of Esther & Augustus’ five children, three died as children.
1884 Mary C. SMITH
18 October
1781 John George WOLF, son of Johan Friedrich Wolf
1877 Milton Adolphus SMITH, son of Walter Lorraine Smith
19 October
1917 Nathalee SMITH was the oldest child of Denny Herbert Smith & Mavis Marie Brown. She married Jerry Sidney Comeaux in 1941.
20 October
1794 Susan GREEN
1813 Margaretha RITTER
1860 Gabriella SANDERS
1866 Bartholomew Anthony BRADY was born in Ireland, son of Thomas Brady & Catherine Gibney. He married Mary Agnes Reddan in 1900 in New Jersey. Bartholomew was a policeman for East Orange, New Jersey. He retired in 1931.
21 October
1857 Anna Esther WOLF was born in Iowa. She was the daughter of William Wolf & Sarah Jane Wilson. She married Thomas Filmore Dickson. James Frederick Dickson was their son.
23 October
1805 Maria RITTER, daughter of Henry Ritter
1863 Caroline Louise GRUISSY was born in Ohio, daughter of Augustus Ceaser Gruissy & Mary Ann Everett. In 1882 she married Peter Jonathan Moore. Their children: Emaline, Lillian Vera, Floyd, Frances Gertrude, Elizabeth & Ralph. She died in 1936.
1900 Donna Strom BROPHY
1900 Alva Edwin ELLZEY
24 October
1824 Henry William Leander LEWIS
1852 Emma Abbline FLORY was the first wife of William Mark. They married in 1870, after he returned from the Civil War. They had two children: Cora Bell & Marian. She died in 1877, at the age of 24.
1863 Martha E. ALFORD, daughter of Hines Berry Alford & Louansa Wadford
1887 Clarence WOLF, son of Frederick Jacob Wolf
1899 George Washington CUTRER
25 October
1790 Mary Magdelena RITTER, daughter of Johannes Ritter Sr. & Maria Elisabeth Keck
1853 Richard FORTENBERRY was born in Mississippi, son of Alfred Fortenberry & Aderine Mary Faulk. He was my first cousin, 4 times removed.
1869 Julius J. ALFORD, son of Seaborn S. Alford MD & Anice Ball
1908 Theodore Roosevelt MORRIS
1909 Delphin Delmus MORRIS
26 October
1779 Nancy Ann DILLON was born in North Carolina, daughter of Richard Dillon & Anne Lawrence. She married John Stallings. Nancy died in 1869.
1852 Leah E. BRUMFIELD, daughter of Jesse Kelly Brumfield & Hannah Ann Youngblood
1878 Frank Samuel WEISSBERG, son of Morris Weissberg & Rose Bankin, husband of Florence Gartner. He married my great aunt.
27 October
1765 Cornelia KNIGHT
1845 Elias McDANIEL
1888 Frances Gertrude MOORE was born in Ohio, daughter of Peter Jonathan Moore & Caroline Louise Gruissy. She married William Clarence Brophy. Their children: Glen, Caroline & Donald. In 1920 William worked for the Gas & Fuel Company.
28 October
1877 Jason Abraham ALFORD was born in Mississippi, son of Needham Edwin Alford & Mary Louiza Stafford. Jason lived to be 96 years old.
1896 James Everett MARK, son of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter; he is my 2x great uncle. He married Effie Margaret Carter.
1918 Woodrow Wilson SIMMONS
29 October
1718 Maria Barbara WOLF, daughter of Johan Jacob Wolf & Anna Barbara Orth
1808 Salome ROTH
1869 Frances Dora ALFORD, daughter of Needham Edwin Alford & Mary Luzina , Stafford. She lived 51 years.
1874 Dewitt William ALFORD, son of Seaborn S. Alford MD & Anice Ball
1909 Shirley FORTENBERRY was born in Mississippi, son of Tate Edward Fortenberry & Lucy Viola Brown. He married Thelma Ginn. They had three children: Charles, Dorothy & Shirlene.
1929 Barbara A. KOZLAK
30 October
1875 Clarence Lee Guy WOLF was born in Iowa, son of Isaac Ezra Wolf & Mary Cathrina Wireman. He married Maude E. Collins in 1901 in Oklahoma.
31 October
1916 Kathleen Gloria COYLE was born in New York City, the youngest child of Michael Coyle & Mary Josephine Mullane. She never married, living with her sisters. She died in Arizona in 2007. She was my great aunt.
1919 Selwyn Alex BRUMFIELD, son of John Edward Brumfield & Ada Beatrice Fortenberry
1930 Seth O. DILLON Jr., husband of Bobbye Earl Fortenberry
