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 July
1805 Gasua Chapman FORTENBERRY was born in South Carolina, son of William Jasper Fortenberry & Violette Kennington. He married Sarah Brown. He was a farmer. They had nine children. Gasua died in 1884 in MS.
17 July
1893 Frederick Isaac RITTER was born in Ohio, the son of Anthony Casper Ritter & Emma Alice Mowrer. He married Ella Mae Sprankle. Their children: Kathryn & Dean Ritter. Frederick Isaac Ritter served in World War I.
18 July
1867 Rose Ella BRUMFIELD lived in MS, daughter of Jessie Alexander Brumfield & Martha Elizabeth Alford. She married Jasper Pascal Brown in 1887. They had nine children. Rose was my great grandmother.
1925 John SNYDER
19 July
1879 Thomas Kenneth MARK lived his life in Ohio. He was the son of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter. He was a farmer & a carpenter. He married N. Regina Gruissy in 1903. They had seven children, all born in Ohio. He lived to be 95 years of age. He was my great grandfather.
1916 Gladys May MOORE
20 July
1746 Anna M. GERMANTOWN
1852 William Franklin ELLZEY was born in MS, son of John Shaffer Ellzey & Saryntha Smith. He married Mary Elizabeth Gatlin. They had eight children. He was a farmer on a general farm.
21 July
1815 Martin B. RITTER
1845 Frederick Jacob WOLF, son of John Jonas Wolf & Sarah Ann Chronister
1882 Nathaniel GARDNER was my maternal grandfather. He was born in New York City, son of Leopold & Florence Gartner. He worked for the Western Union Telegraph Company for over 50 years, beginning as a messenger boy and becoming a branch manager. On 9 May 1921 he married Helen Francis Coyle. They had one daughter, Alberta Joy (Gardner) Brown.
22 July
1914 Marian Louise MOORE
24 July
1747 Casper RITTER
1866 Martha A. ALFORD married William J. Smith, son of William J. M. Smith & Rachel Ellzey. She had seven children. She died in 1926.
1914 Marian Louise MOORE
25 July
1929 Everett Leroy WILSON was the son of Thomas Clarence Wilson & Euna Clarabelle Fortenberry. He was my 4th cousin, 1x removed.
26 July
1806 Edward S BROWN, son of Moses Brown & Sarah Robertson, husband of Mary Polly Spurlock. He was my 3x great grandfather.
1808 Theobald RITTER
1867 Samuel J ELLZEY
1878 Dixie Irene SMITH was the daughter of Adolphus Scott Smith & Julia Jane Simmons. Adolphus Smith was a dentist. She married Hugh Algernon Brown.
1928 Mavis Addie DYKES
27 July
1766 Nathaniel RITTER
1780 Johann Philip RITTER
1851 John H. WOLF
1855 Robert R. RITTER
1905 Vera Victoria MARK
1928 Delbert Keith BROWN was my father. He was born in Ohio, the oldest child of Roy Jessie Brown & Ivy Mark. On 8 August 1948 he married Alberta Joy Gardner. They lived in Germantown, NY. Delbert was a mechanic & trucker.
28 July
1915 Clarence William WILSON was the son of Thomas Clarence Wilson & Euna Clarabelle Fortenberry.
29 July
1842 John D. BRUMFIELD , born in Louisiana, son of Nathaniel Brumfield & Charlotte Temple Ott. He married Zadie Martin. Children: John D. T. & James H. John was a farmer in Washington Parish, Louisiana. He died in 1903.
1912 Marshal HEIGLE
1922 Eugene C. PIGOTT
30 July
1854 Elidia Rebecca RITTER, daughter of Isaac Ritter & Isabell Fisher, wife of William Mark. She was my 2x great grandmother.
1872 Cora Bell MARK was born in Ohio, daughter of William Mark & Emma Abeline Flory. She married Edward Newell. Children: Edna and Maude. She died in 1905.
1889 James Ray MILLER
31 July
1915 Ruth Geneva JOLLIFF was born in Ohio, daughter of Samuel Martin Jolliff & Margaret Maude Mark. She married Herbert Phillip Mullen, Sr. in 1936. Their son is Herbert Phillip Mullen, Jr. She was my 1st cousin, 2x removed. We corresponded at one time and she shared some genealogy information. She died in 1997.
