April Family Birthdays, April 16 - 30

 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 April                 

1868       Walker FORTENBERRY, son of William John Fortenberry & Elizabeth M. Cutrer

1881       Margaret COYLE, daughter of Patrick Coyle & Margaret Brady. She lived 91 years old. She was my great aunt.

1887       James Joseph COYLE, b CT, son of Patrick Coyle & Margaret Brady. He married Madeline Herbst. They had 7 children. He was a carpenter & a teacher.

 1913       Robert Earl FORTENBERRY, son of Joseph Gazie Fortenberry & Corine                         McDaniel

17 April                 

1785       Margaret RITTER, daughter of Casper Ritter & Anna M. Germanton

1828       Louisa Blackwell FORTENBERRY

1874       Benjamin E. BLADES, son of William Ephraim Blades 

1876       Margaret MULLANE was born in Ireland, one of 12 children of Daniel MULLANE & Brigid ENGLISH. Margaret died before 1880. 

18 April                 

1855       Elizabeth FORTENBERRY, daughter of William John Fortenberry

1880       Margaret MULLANE, b Ireland, named for her sister who died as a toddler.                     This daughter of Daniel Mullane & Brigid English died in 1892, at the age of 12.

19 April                 

1798       Jacob WOLF, son of Adam Wolf, grandson of Johann Jonas Wolf

1851       Laura BRUMFIELD, b LA, daughter of Nathaniel Brumfield & Charlotte  Temple OTT. She married Needham Alford.

 1880       Ollie Izellie SCHILLING

20 April                 

1824       William WOLF, b PA, son of John Frederick WOLF & Esther Barbara Wolf. He married Sarah Jane Wilson. Their children: Frederick, Tholomiah & Anna. William died in 1888 in Kansas.

1850       Emory F. WOLF, son of Henry H. Wolf

21 April                 

1849       Nelson Monroe FORTENBERRY, son of Alfred Fortenberry

1864       Anthony Casper RITTER was born in Ohio, son of Isaac Ritter & Isabell                         Fisher. He married Emma Alice Mowrer in 1883. Their children: Clement,                     Elmer, Harvey, Frederick, Mary Isabell.

1901     Cullen BRUMFIELD, soon Henry James Brumfield & Lula O'Quin

22 April                 

1845       Rebecca Jane FORTENBERRY, daughter of Duviox B. Fortenberry & Gussie Alford

1907       Alton Earl FORTENBERRY, son of William Thomas Fortenberry & Clarenda Angeline McElveen

1908       Gussie ALFORD was the daughter of Jeptha Martin Alford & Laura Jane Warner. She married Duviox B Fortenberry. Their children: Lemuel, Laurie, Glenda, Rebecca.

23 April                 

1794       Jonas WOLF, son of Aam Wolf, grandson of Johann Jonas Wolf

1883       Mary B WOLF, b OH, daughter of Johan W. S. Wolf & Elizabeth Jane                                 Anderson. She married Arthur Dunham in 1906.

24 April                 

1808       Elizabeth Coney ELLZEY

1830       Joel RITTER, son of Daniel Ritter & Lydia Knauss

25 April                 

1862     Josephine ELLZEY, born in MS; daughter of Benjamin Franklin Ellzey & Emily Holmes; wife of Richard Alexander Fortenberry

1896       Lillian Myrtle HOVERSTOCK married Amos Martin Mark, son of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter. Their son was Ernest Miles Mark.

1913       Alton Woodrow WILSON, son of Thomas Clarence Wilson

1925       Elenora CUTRER

 1931       Eddie Jasper PIERCE, son of Arlie Wesley Pierce & Lyda Mearl Brown

26 April                 

1721       Barbara RITTER, wife of Hans Jacob Hertzel

1907       Jessie Mary LOWE

1917       Edna Margaret WILSON

1920       Thelma Lee MULLINS, b MS, daughter of Arthur Cleveland Mullins & Janie Elizabeth Pittman. Thelma married Lank W. Morris.

1936       Billy Joe FORTENBERRY, born in MS; son of Ray Luther Fortenberry & Zelda Marie Alford; husband of Daisy Roberts Travis

27 April                 

1872       Timothy MULLANE, born in Ireland; son of Daniel Mullane & Brigid English

1882       Emma Jane MARK, daughter of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter

1892     Albert Davis BRUMFIELD, son Elisha Kelly Brumfield & Sarah C Simmons

1916       Robert James COYLE, b CT, son of James Joseph Coyle & Madeline Herbst. He married Ruth Pottle. He generously shared genealogical information with me on many occasions.

28 April                 

1798       David RITTER, b PA, son of Johannes Ritter, Jr. & Anna Mariah.

1836       Saran Ann MOYER

29 April                 

1819       Mary Isabella HEFFELFINGER, b PA. She was my 3^rd great-grandmother. She married Abraham Mark. They had eight sons. Two of those sons died in the Civil War.

1913       Catherine Ruth GOOD, b Ohio, daughter of Albert Edward Good & Elizabeth                     Lodema Moore

1934       Joanne Grace MAURER

30 April                 

1821       Jeremiah SMITH, b MS, son of Jeremiah Smith & Joanna Dillon. He                                 married Pernecia. Their children: Jarratt, William & Ancil. Jeremiah was my                     3^rd great grand uncle.

1852       Morgana Josephine MCDANIEL

1868       Philip RITTER, son of Isaac Ritter & Isabell Fisher

1884       William Hercules MARK, son of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter

1910       Cleal Morrison SWAGLER

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Wedding, Ritter & Hauser, 1890 PA

 This is a brief wedding notice but it gave me the name of Annie's husband which I had not had before reading this.

Annie Ritter

Daughter of Samuel Ritter & Hannah E. Koch

My 4th Cousin, 3x removed

&

John Hauser

A Coming Wedding

Mr. John Hauser, of the popular boot and shoe firm of Kuhns & Hauser, 724 Hamilton street, will next week be married to Miss Annie, the eldest daughter of Mr. Samuel Ritter, who resides near the Iron Bridge. 

Source:

Newspapers.com

The Morning Call, Allentown, PA

24 April 1890, page 1

Related Posts:

• Wedding: Brumfield & McSpadden, 1957 GA
• Wedding: Brumfield & Rodgers, 26 Dec. 1937, MS
• Wedding: Fortenberry & Ellzey, 2 Sept. 1932 MS
• Marriage: John Wolf, 1833 PA

Forget Me Not: Charles E. Brumfield, 1996 MS

 I have seen the name of this gentleman as both Charles Edward & Edward Charles. Keep that in mind if you are researching this gentleman. 

Charles Edward Brumfield

2 Mar 1924 MS - 27 Apr 1996 MS

Son of Fletcher Boyd Brumfield & Mattie Hannah Brumfield

He is my first cousin, twice removed.

 

 

Charles Edward “Brum” Brumfield, 72, of McComb, died April 27, 1996, at Southwest Mississippi Regional Medical Center.

 

Services were at 11 a. m. Monday at Capps Funeral Home of Tylertown, with the Rev. David Strebeck and deacon Jerry Bullock officiating. Burial was in Brumfield Cemetery on Highway 48 West.

 

Mr. Brumfield was born March 2, 1924, in Pike County. He was the son of Fletcher B. Brumfield and Mattie Brumfield. 

 

He was a retired Pike County co – op truck driver and a Baptist. He was a World War II Navy veteran and an avid hunter and outdoorsman. He loved beagles. 

 

He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Courtney Rushing and Madge Brumfield. 

 

He is survived by his former wife, Sylvia Miller Brumfield of McComb; one daughter and son – in law, Stacie Brumfield Stinson and Ralph Stinson of Tylertown; two stepsons, Gary Pierce of McComb and Dwayne Pierce of Vicksburg; one brother and sister – in – law, Mead and Jane Brumfield of Progress; one sister, Frances Ricketts of Lake Charles, La.; seven grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews.

 

Pallbearers were Tony Breland, Terry Brumfield, Gary Pierce, John Brumfield, Richard Breland and Dwayne Pierce. Honorary pallbearers were Duke Brown, Fay Smith and Don Fuller.

 

 

Source:

Newspapers.com

Enterprise – Journal, McComb, MS

1 May 1996, page 10

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April Family Birthdays, April 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 April        

1709    Johan Adam DICK was born in Germany. He came to America on the Ship Rob             & Alice, arriving in Philadelphia on 11 September 1738 with his wife, Anna Ottilla Knack, and their daughter, Appollonia, who had been born during the voyage. The family settled in York County, Pennsylvania. They belonged to the German Baptist Church in Abbottstown. Johan Adam Dick is my 6th great grandfather.

1836    Nancy I. FORTENBERRY, daughter of Calvin Kennington Fortenberry

1878    George Washington MARK, son of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter

1883    Walter Lee BLADES

2 April        

1808    James Graham BROWN was one four children of Moses Brown & Sarah                                     Robertson. He had 4 children: John, William, Mary & Joseph. He died 1849.

1876     Felder Fletcher ALFORD, son of Ira Payne Alford & Mary Hughes Parker

1881    Harriet Emma WOLF, daughter of William Henry Harrison Wolf & Sarah Forst

1889    James Luther THORNHILL, son of James Miles Thornhill & Violette Eliza Fortenberry

3 April        

1899    Lillian Pearl ELLZEY, daughter of William S. Ellzey & Amanda Adarene Fortenberry

1917    Ethel May ESCHLIMAN married Samuel Martin Mark Jolliff, son of Samuel                     Martin Jolliff & Margaret Maude Mark. Ethel had 3 children: Robert, Marilyn & Thomas.

1928    Delbert Karl LEBER, b OH; husband of Joanne Grace Maurer

4 April        

1870    Rephenia Cathern GRUISSY, b OH, daughter of Augustus Ceaser GRUISSY & Esther Barbara WOLF. She married Willis Nichols. They had one son, Richard Ray Nichols. They lived in Michigan but often returned to Ohio to visit family there. Letters between Rephenia & her sister, N. Regina Gruissy Mark remain in the family.

1900    Bernard I. BRADY , born in New Jersey

1908    Carl WOLF, son of Wesley Wolf 

1927    Donald BOGAN

5 April        

1770     Henrich KECK, born in PA, son of Georg Keck & Elanora Catherine Schaut

1828    Isabell FISHER, b in OH, daughter of John and Catherine Fisher. She married Isaac Ritter in 1878. They had 12 children. Isabell was my 2nd great grandmother.

1850    Burrell Franklin FORTENBERRY, son of Calvin Kennington Fortenberry & Narcissa Simmons; husband of Mary O. Bilbo

 1893    Guy Napoleon WOLF, son of Charles Albert Wolf & Anna Kisshing

6 April        

1816    Lidda SMITH, daughter of Jeremiah George Smith & Joanna Dillon

1879    Lottie Irene BRUMFIELD, b MS, daughter of Isaac Nelson Brumfield & Sara J Smith. She married Jesse Monroe Conerly. She’s my 2nd cousin 3x removed.

7 April        

1783     Henrich KECK, son of Johannes Keck

1804    Joseph FRANTZ was the son of Henrick Frantz & Margaretha Ritter. He married Salome Roth.

1819    Christian WOLF, son of Andrew Wolf

1869    Eliza Cordella WOLF, daughter of William Henry Harrison Wolf

8 April        

1843    Amanda M. BRUMFELD married Solomon B Ritter, son of Martin Ritter & Anna Margaret Bogert. She died in 1911 in PA.

1848     Charles D. OTT, born in LA, son of Charles Ott & Margaret Ann Tate

1862    Mary Hollander BLADES

9 April        

1751    John Henry RITTER, son of Martin Ritter

1824    Sarah BRUMFIELD, daughter of Willis Brumfield & Nancy Virginia Holmes

1831    Christina Minerva FORTENBERRY

1878    Roy Edward NEE, b TN, son of Henry Nee & Matilda Millan. 

1896    Ruth Naomi HAWK, b  OH, the daughter of William Hawk & Elizabeth Ritter.                 She married Milton Guy Currier. 

1925    Robert E. FEGAN

10 April       

1779    Henry RITTER, son of Martin Ritter

1853    Franklin P. MARK, b OH, son of Abraham MARK & Mary Isabella Heffelfinger.             He married Laura M Miller. Their children: Minnie, Emma, Lloyd & Glenn. Franklin was a carpenter.

11 April        

1809    John Franklin WOLF was born in Pennsylvania, son of John Frederick Wolf                     & Esther Barbara Shaffer. He married Elisabeth Burkholder. They had 9 children. He died 10 March 1883, at the age of 73. He was my 3rd great grandfather.

1857    Courtney Rebeccca BRUMFIELD, b LA, daughter of Elijah Brumfield &                             Charlotte Temple Ott. She lived 81 years.

1813     Narcissa SIMMONS, wife of Calvin Kennington Fortenberry; mother of 12

12 April       

 1858    Mary Ann ALFORD, b LA, daughter of Reverend Warren J Alford & Celia Ann                 Lewis. She died 6 January 1894, at the age of 35.

1873    Alexander Griffin BRUMFIELD, son of Isaac Nelson Brumfield 

1881    Lucy May BRUMFIELD, b MS, daughter of Jessie Alexander Brumfield &                         Martha Elizabeth Alford.

1915    Herbert Phillip MULLEN Sr.

13 April        

1818    Milevey  SMITH, b MS, daughter of Jeremiah Smith & Joanna Dillon. She married Don Harvey.

1844    Christianna Euseba FORTENBERRY, b MS, daughter of Gasua Chapman Fortenberry & Sarah Brown

1862    Margaret Jane BRUMFIELD,  born in MS, daughter of Isaac Nelson Brumfield & Sarah Jane Smith; wife of Samuel Matthew Foil

14 April        

1811     Samuel OTT, b in LA, son of Jacob Ott III & Margaret Jackson

1824    Sarah Ann CHRONISTER

1894    Albert Rowlen MORRISON, b OH, son of Seth Benner Morrison & Margaret Jane Gruissy. He married Dora Morrison. Their children: Helen, Edward & Jean.

1908    Ayleen Ellzey FORTENBERRY, daughter of William S. Ellzey & Amanda                         Adarene Fortenberry. Wife of Seab Fortenberry

1912    Fletcher Mead BRUMFIELD, b MS, son of Fletcher Boyd Brumfield & Mattie                 Hannah Brumfield, husband of Diane D. Payne

15 April        

1747    Maria Elisabeth KECK, b MS, daughter of Henry Keck & Hannah Peterson. She             married Johannes Ritter, Sr. and had 11 children.  She was my 5th great                             grandmother. She died in 1813 at the age of 66.

1917    Eva Lena Moseley MARK

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Wedding: Ritter & Evans, 1893 PA

 This brief wedding  notice gives just the basic information but it does support data I had gathered. 

John T. Ritter

born 7 Jan 1869, Leighigh Co., PA

Son of Samuel Ritter & Hannah E. Koch

My 4th cousin, 3 x removed

&

Margaret Evans

Married 30 March 1893

Sources:

Newspapers.com

The Morning Call, Allentown, PA

21 March 1893, page 1

Other Wedding Posts:

• Brumfield & Pittman, 1934 MS
• Brumfield & Rodgers, 1937 MS
• Fortenberry & Ellzey, 1932 MS
• John Wolf, 1833 PA

Wedding: Mark & Huff, 1947 OH

This is a very nice article about an Ohio Wedding. 

Lucile Marguerite Mark

Daughter of Charles Forest Mark & Bertha Flickinger

My 1st Cousin, 2x removed

William Alered Huff

1 Jan 1926 OH - 1 Jan 1979 OH

Son of Russel Huff

 

Married

9 Mar 1947, Chester, Wayne, Ohio

Repeat Vows of Double Ring Ceremony

The Rev. Hayward Kehl performed the double ring ceremony in the Emanuel reformed church of Chester township, uniting in marriage Miss Lucile Mark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mark, of Wooster, Rt. 6, and William Huff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Russel Huff, of Dalton.

Eighty attended the wedding that took place Sunday, March 9.

Miss Carol Jean Martin, the pianist, played the traditional wedding marches by Wagner and Mendelssohn, and also ”Clare de Lune,” “Barccalle”, “I Love You Truly”, “To each His Own”, and “Liebestraum”.

For her wedding, the bride wore a white satin gown made with a sweetheart neckline and a full skirt which was gathered at the waist. Her floor – length veil was made of net. She wore the groom’s gift, a two – strand pearl necklace, and carried a bouquet of American beauty roses.

The bride’s maid of honor was Miss Betty Huff, who was dressed in pink. She carried a pink and white carnation bouquet. Bridesmaids were Miss Anna Steele and Miss Dorothy Emerson. They wore pink and blue gowns respectively, and their flowers were also pink and white carnations. Miss Betty Mark, junior bridesmaid, wore pink and carried a bouquet similar to the other attendants.

Best man was the bride’s brother, Joseph Mark. Ushers included James Martic, Ralph Huff, and Robert MuCullough.

A reception for fifty guests was held at the home of the bride. The bride’s table was centered with a three – tiered wedding cake topped with a miniature bride and groom.

The bride’s mother wore a navy blue polka dot dress and a corsage of sweetpeas. Mrs. Huff was dressed in navy blue. She also wore a sweetpea corsage.

For going away Mrs. Huff wore a two – piece fuchsia suit, a gray pinstripe coat and black accessories. After a short wedding trip in the east, the couple will live in Orrville.

Mrs. Huff is a graduate of Chester school and Mr. Huff graduated at Newscomerstown.

 

Source:

Newspapers.com

The Evening Independent, Massillon, Ohio

19 March 1947, page 6

Related Posts:

• Wedding: Brumfield & McSpadden, 1957 GA
• Wedding: Brumfield & Rodgers, 26 Dec. 1937, MS
• Wedding: Fortenberry & Ellzey, 2 Sept. 1932 MS
• Marriage: John Wolf, 1833 PA