February Family Birthdays, February 1 - 15

 Is your birthday in February? Maybe you share your special day with someone in our family who came before. Look below and see. Happy Birthday!

I posted this series in 2011. This version has been updated with more information. 

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1 February    

1787    Nancy PERKINS was the second wife of Moses Brown. His first wife, Sarah                     Robertson, died in 1810 in Georgia. She had four children. She was my 4th great grandmother. Nancy had seven children, 4 daughters and 3 sons. 

1861    Euseba FORTENBERRY, daughter of Alfred Fortenberry & Aderine M Faulk

1884    Clara Estella WOLF

      

2 February    

1805    Christian BROWN, daughter of Moses Brown & Sarah Robertson, wife of                         William M. Fortenberry

1842    Samuel RITTER, son of John B. Ritter & Mary Kemmerer

1853    Samuel WOLF

1856    Sarah Euseba Elizabeth ELLZEY

1906    Otera PIERCE, married Lynn Elias Blades

 1915    Francis WEISBERG was born in Buffalo, New York, the son of Frank Samuel                 Weisberg & Florence Gartner. He was my first cousin, once removed.  He was a                 furniture salesman at one time. Late in life he moved to Florida.

3 February    

1717    Maria Magdalena WOLF

1792    Jacob RITTER, son of Martin Ritter & Anna Margaret Steininger, husband of Anna Bogert; lived 38 years; father of 4 

1924    Harold Jay NEE b in Ohio, the son of Roy Edward Nee and Isabell Esther  Mark. He and his wife, Pauline, had four children.  He served in the US  Army during World War II.

4 February    

1932    Dick Alvin PARKER, born in Ohio, the son of Ralph Alvin Parker & Nellie                         Irene Jolliff. Dick and his wife, Bonita, had three children.

5 February    

1810    Sarah BROWN,  b in Georgia, daughter of Moses Brown and Sarah                                     Robertson. She married Gasua Chapman Fortenberry. They had nine children. Sarah died in 1883 in Mississippi.

1890    Harvey Allen RITTER, son of Anthony Casper Ritter & Emma Alice Mowrer

1899    Nellie Lavinia MESSMORE, daughter of William Henry Messmore & Susan Isabel Ritter, wife of James Bigler

1928    Donald Ray BROPHY

6 February    

1886    Edward MESSMORE

1936    Loyal David NOTHSTEIN

1925    James Joseph COYLE b in CT, son of James Joseph Coyle & Madeline Herbst.                 He married Barbara Kozlak. They had three children. 

7 February   

 1777    Moses BROWN was one of eight children of Edward Brown. He died 27                         February 1838 in Mississippi. He was my 4th great grandfather. 

1828    Aderine Mary FAULK, wife of Alfred Fortenberry

1857    Barbary Ann RITTER, daughter of Isaac Ritter & Isabell Fisher

1880    James Benton MARK, son of David Mark & Mary Ann Clason

1884    Lulu Mabel HAWK, daughter of William Hawk & Elizabeth Ritter

8 February    

1775    Johan Jonas WOLF, son of Johann Jonas Wolf & Appollonia Dick

1887    Catherine MULLANE was born in Ireland, was one of twelve children of Daniel             Mullane and Brigid English.  

1890    Roger T. ELLZEY, son of William Franklin Ellzey & Mary Elizabeth Gatlin

9 February 

1819    Margaret BRUMFIELD, born in Louisiana, daughter of Willis Brumfield                         and Nancy Virginia Holmes. She married John Seaborn ALFORD, son  of Jacob Alford and Frances Seaborn.

1920    Virginia Caroline MOORE, daughter of Floyd Bernard Moore & Anna Slaby

10 February  

1891    Infant Girl ALFORD,  born in Mississippi, the 12th child of Needham Edwin                 Alford & Mary Luzina Stafford. The baby died on the day she was born.

1905    Homer Grant SHEETS, husband of Mary Mildred Jolliff

11 February  

1828    Henrietta C. RITTER, daughter of Daniel Ritter & Lydia Knauss

1883    Emaline Floy MOORE, b in Ohio, daughter of Peter Jonathan Moore &                         Caroline Louise Gruissy. On 14 February 1901 she married Arther Spice. 

12 February 

1773    Adam WOLF, son of Johann Jonas Wolf & Appollonia Dick

1797    Jonas MOYER

1825    Hollis Horton FORTENBERRY, son of William Jasper Fortenberry & Violette Kennington

1877    William M. MARK, son of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca Ritter, lived his life                 in Ohio

1896    Earnest T. ELLZEY

1938    Peggy BROWN was the daughter of Hubert Allen Brown & Freddie Smith.                     She married George Alford. She was my father’s first cousin. 

       

13 February   

 1840    William Franklin FORTENBERRY b in MS, son of Gasua C Fortenberry & Sarah Brown.  He married Mariah B. Hall. He was known as  ‘Black Frank’.

1852    Howell K. FORTENBERRY, husband of Mary Ann Alford

1872    Bernard COYLE, son of Patrick Coyle & Margaret Brady

1895    Ralph William WOLF, son of Charles Albert Wolf

14 February    

1804    George KRICK, husband of Anna Hoover

1811    Eliza SMITH, b Mississippi, one of thirteen children of Jeremiah Smith &                         Joanna Dillon.  She died 6 April 1837, at the age of 26.

1860    Salena Lena BLADES, daughter of Benjamin Blades & Hollander E. Morris

1910    Margaret Mary BRADY, daughter of Bartholomew Anthony Brady

15 February    

1839    Jesse Alexander BRUMFIELD, son of Jesse K Brumfield & Hannah A Youngblood

1879    Lemuel Q. FORTENBERRY

1904    Effie Margaret CARTER, born in Ohio, daughter of Frank Carter & Sadie                     Mapes. She married James Everett Mark on 31 December 1924. They had 11                     children. 

1905    Floy Alma SPICE, daughter of Arthur Spice & Lafayette, Medina, Ohio, USA

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Forget Me Not: Isabell Mark Nee Ream, 1984 OH

 Isabell was the sister of my paternal grandmother, Ivy R. Mark Brown. We visited her in Ohio when I was young. I remember her many pretty knick knacks. My brothers and I were cautioned by our parents to be careful of the fragile objects. I remember she had a mirror in her bedroom. She cut our pictures of flowers from cards and adhered them all around the mirror. As a little girl, I thought it was beautiful. 

Isabell Esther Mark Nee Ream

21 Dec 1903 OH - 9 Mar 1984 OH

Daughter of

Thomas Kenneth Mark & Nancy Regina Victoria Gruissy

 

Wife of:

Roy Edward Nee, m 5 Nov 1922

&

William Ream, m 29 Jan 1977

Wadsworth – Isabell E. (Nee) Ream, 80, died March 9 at the Wadsworth Health Care Center after a lengthy illness.

 

Mrs. Ream was born in Medina County and resided in the Wadsworth – Seville area most of her life. She was Wadsworth Township Clerk for eight years, and a member of ACME Lutheran Church. She was a former member of the Wadsworth United Methodist Church, where she was a nursery teacher for over 25 years, and a member of the United Methodist Women. She also participated in senior citizens groups.

 

She is survived by husband, William, whom she married Jan. 29, 1977; sons, Harold J. Nee of Wadsworth, Paul K. Nee of Arvada, Colo.; six grandchildren; 13 great – grandchildren; brothers, Owen Mark of River Styx, Clarence Mark of Akron, Ind.; sisters, Vera Ballard of Lakeland, Fla., Ivy Brown of Kinderhook, N. Y., Viola Nothstein of White Plains, Md., Wava Braun of Seville.

 

The family will receive friends at the Hillard – Cox – Mullaney Funeral Home, 174 N. Lyman St., Wadsworth, Sunday, 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m., where services will be held Monday, 11 a. m., Rev. Vernel A. Lundeen officiating. Interment Woodlawn cemetery. Contributions may be made to the United Methodist Church Nursery or ACME Lutheran Church Library.

 

Source: Newspapers.com

The Akron Beacon – Journal, Akron, OH

10 March 1984, page 26

 

 

 

 

 

January Family Birthdays, January 16 - 31

 Is your birthday in January? Maybe you share your special day with someone in our family who came before. Look below and see. Happy Birthday!

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16 January

1893    Eugene S BRADY, son of Owen Brady & Mary McGovern

1919    Courtney Jane SIMMONS; daughter of Fletcher Boyd Brumfield & Mattie Hannah Brumfield, wife of Gordon Rushing

17 January    

1839    Agnes STRAW was the daughter of John Straw & Margaret Wolf. She married                 Louis R Poffenberger.

1876    David Ellsworth MESSMORE, son of Allen G. Messmore & Barbary Ann Ritter

18 January    

1803    Henry RITTER b PA, son of Johannes Ritter, Jr. & Anna Mariah. He married                 Mary Harpster. They had two children: David & Catherine.

1855     Julius Ceaser ALFORD, son of Warren Jackson Alford & Celia Ann Lewis,                     husband of Sarah Elizabeth Fortenberry

1877    Sarah A. LOBAUGH, daughter of John Adam Lobaugh & Christine Wolf

1898    Frank FORTENBERRY, son of Joseph Gazie Fortenberry & Corine McDaniel.                     Frank lived 10 days.

19 January    

1831    Joseph WOLF, son of Frederick Wolf & Louisa C Goetz, husband of Almeida                     Flickinger

1867    Philip M. CREASY lived his life in Ohio, son of Christian Gruissy & Mary Wise.                 He married Mary Wasem. Their son was Harry Lewis Creasy.  Philip owned a grocery store in Stark County, Ohio.  I have his Bible.

1885    Sarah Emma Lorena SMITH, daughter of Christine Wolf & Emma Julia                             Warren

1923        Rava Nell BALL, daughter of James Alton Ball & Mildred Olga Brown, wife                 of  Leonard M. Ezell

20 January    

1881    Elve Ellis BLADES, son of William Ephraim Blades & Morgana Josephine                         McDaniel

1884    May Melissa RITTER, daughter of John William Ritter & Ruth Anna Scott

1925    Calvin Ford FRAVEL b in Virginia. He married Mary Arline Parker, daughter                 of Ralph Parker & Nellie Irene Jolliff.

21 January    

1804    Eli SMITH b in SC, son of Jeremiah Smith & Joanna Dillon. He married Orpha             Roberts. Eli died 2 August 1838 MS.

1828    Henrietta KERN

 1846    Eliza Jane SMITH, daughter of Wyatt Smith & Euseba Fortenberry

22 January

1822    Ira Payne ALFORD, son of Edwin Barksdale Alford & Martha P. Smith

1882    Robert C. RITTER, son of Robert R. Ritter & Josephine Hess

1919    Carell James ELLZEY, son of Grady Henry Ellzey & Bertha Fortenberry

1919    Wava Alice MARK has lived her life in Ohio, youngest child of Thomas K. Mark                 & N. Regina Gruissy.  She married Alvin Braun. They lived on a farm in Seville                 for over 50 years.

1932    Lynn Holly BROWN, son of Hubert Allen Brown & Freddie Beatrice Smith,                     husband of Beverly J. Thames.

23 January

1903    Nina Belle HURD

1921    Borden Hamilton BROWN, son of Hubert Allen Brown & Freddie Beatrice                     Smith, husband of Annie Laurie Lawrence

1926    John Joseph COYLE b CT, son of James Joseph Coyle & Madeline Herbst.

1935    William Glynn FORTENBERRY

24 January    

1802    John WOLF, son of Adam Wolf

1827    Elizabeth Martha Ann CUTRER

1837    Mary L. BRUMFIELD, daughter of Jesse Kelly Brumfield & Hannah Ann Youngblood

1867    Eugene Wellington MCCLENDON

25 January    

1823    Alfred FORTENBERRY b Mississippi, son of William J Fortenberry & Violet Kennington. He married Aderine Mary Faulk. They had eight children.    

1864    Louisa Armethia FORTENBERRY

1880    Ola SCHILLING

26 January   

 1836    Allen Moses BROWN b MS, son of Edward S. Brown & Mary Polly Spurlock.                 He married Emmaline Smith. They had three children. We can find no record                 of him after 1870. He is my 2nd great grandfather.

27 January     

1814    Esther Barbara WOLF, daughter of John Franklin Wolf & Elisabeth Burkholder

1879    Richard W. FORTENBERRY

1898    Arlie PIERCE b MS. He married Lyda Mearl Brown, daughter of Jasper Pascal                     Brown & Rose Ella Brumfield. Arlie & Lyda had six children.

28 January    

1875    George Howard ALFORD

1898    James Joseph MCCALL lived his life in New York City where he was a fire                         fighter. He married Marion Coyle in 1931. He was injured while putting out a                 fire and died 25 March 1944.

29 January    

1799    Elizabeth MOWREY

1860    Elnora Elizabeth BRUMFIELD

1876    Maria COYLE was born in Ireland, daughter of Patrick Coyle & Margaret Brady. Maria died 21 December 1885. 

1889    Mary Alice WOLF

30 January   

 1931    Maxine Kelly JOLLIFF b OH. She married Donald Eugene Jolliff, son of                         Samuel Martin Jolliff & Arvesta Lavonne.

 31 January   

 1821    Andrew Alexander WOLF

 1854    Oscar J. L. ELLZEY

 1879    Nancy Regina Victoria GRUISSY lived her life in Ohio, daughter of Augustus                 Ceaser Gruissy & Esther Barbara Wolf. She married Thomas Kenneth Mark on                 28 January 1903. They had seven children. She was my great grandmother. She             died 24 May 1959. 

1916    John Leo BRADY, son of Bartholomew Anthony Brady & Mary Agnes Reddan

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January Family Birthdays, January 1 - 15

 Is your birthday in January? Maybe you share your special day with someone in our family who came before. Look below and see. Happy Birthday!

I have posted this series before. This version has been updated with more information. I hope you find it as much fun as I do.

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1 January   

 1796    Charles BRUMFIELD b in South Carolina

 1800    Mary Polly SPURLOCK was born in Georgia. She married Edward S. Brown &                         had 5  children.  She died 12 January 1888 in Pike Co., Mississippi. She was                     my 3rd great grandmother.  

1833    Eliza A. SMITH

1894    Euna Clarabelle FORTENBERRY, daughter of Joseph G. & Corine McDaniel                 Fortenberry. Wife of Thomas Clarence Wilson. 

1873    William Isaac MILLER

1906    Robert Rugh HILE, b in OH

1909    Bartholomew Anthony BRADY, b in NJ 

1926    William Alered HUFF

2 January    

1740    Christian DICK, b in Pennsylvania, the son of Johan Adam Dick & Ottilla                         Knack. He married Catherine Naugle. He & his wife both died on 4 May 1800.    

1823    Edwin B. RITTER, born in PA, son of Martin & Anna Margaret Bogert Ritter. 

1844    Cynthia Elizabeth ALFORD, daughter of Warren Jackson & Celia Ann Lewis                 Alford. Wife of Pierson Welch. 

1898    William Bryan SMITH, son of Walter Lorraine Smith & Emma Julia Warren. 

1899    Walter L. FORTENBERRY, son of Joseph G. & Corine McDaniel Fortenberry. 

1923     Wesley PIERCE in Mississippi, son Arlie Wesley Pierce & Lyda Mearl Brown

3 January    

1852    Claretta M. BRUMFIELD ALFORD, born in LA; daughter of John Wilson                         Brumfield & Cinderella Lanier. Wife of Willis Jacob Alford

1910    Twins: Claude & Clyde HURD were born in Michigan, children of Roy Hurd &                 Mona D. Morrison.  Sadly, the twins died the day they were born.

1914    Helen Pearl RITTER, daughter of William Isaac Ritter & Louise Sophia Schultz.             Wife of Kenneth Edward Knox. 

4 January    

1867    Tholomiah Rhodes WOLF, b in Iowa and died 28 September 1933 in                                 Kansas. He married Elizabeth Willis.

1885    Luella May WOLF

5 January

1786    Anna Margaret BOGERT

1829    William BRUMFIELD, b in Washington Parish, LA, son of Willis Brumfield &                 Nancy Virginia Holmes. William married Sarah Lewis.

1850    Lovina B. RITTER, b in OH, daughter of Isaac Ritter & Isabell Fisher. Lovinia                 d 10 Aug 1850

1867    James Hollis FORTENBERRY

1869    John G. HUFFMAN

6 January    

1835    Narcissa Izela FORTENBERRY was born in Mississippi, daughter of Gasua C.                 Fortenberry & Sarah B. Narcissa married Warren M. Huffman and had three                 children. She died in 1902.

1881    Margaret Maude MARK, b in OH, daughter of William Mark & Elidia Rebecca                 Ritter. Wife of Ralph Clayton Kauffman.

1845    Cecil Earl HALL

7 January    

1767    Maria Magdelena RITTER, b PA, daughter of Johannes Ritter, Sr. & Maria                     Elisabeth Keck. She married John Stumpf.

1869    John T. RITTER, b in PA; son of Samuel Ritter & Hannah E. Koch

1914    Richard F. WOLFF in CT

8 January    

1903    Karl Jackson MILLER b in OH and married Mellie Arlene Jolliff,                                         daughter of Samuel Martin Jolliff & Margaret Maude Mark.

1910    Lillian FORTENBERRY, daughter of Joseph Gazie Fortenberry & Corine                         McDaniel, wife of Arthur Kunberger

9 January    

1884    Annie Elizabeth OTT

1897    Helen Frances COYLE,  b in New York City, the oldest child of Michael Coyle &                 Mary Jospehine Mullane. Helen was my maternal grandmother, Nana. She                     married Nathaniel Gardner. They had one child, Alberta Joy Gardner Brown. 

1906    Ira Evie BLADES, daughter of Walter Lee Blades & Addie Angeline Cutrer. She                     lived 10 years.

10 January    

1698    Mary FALKENBERG, daughter of Hendrick Jacobs Falkenberg

1753    Andreas KECK, b in PA; son of Heinrich Keck & Hannah. Husband of Barbara                 Blanck.

1894    Charles Spurgeon ELLZEY was born in Mississippi, son of William S. Ellzey &                 Amanda A. Fortenberry. Charles married Mae McMillan.

11 January    

1752    Anna Margaret STEININGER married Martin Ritter, son of Heinrich Ritter &                 Maria Elizabeth Tutt. Anna & Martin had seven children.

1768    Johannes RITTER, son of Casper Ritter & Hanna Ottilia Hertz, husband of                     Maria Heffelfinger

1850    William Ephraim BLADES

1876    Julia Mae SMITH

12 January    

1733    Maria Christiana WOLF b in Germany, daughter of Johan Jacob Wolf & Anna                 Barbara Orth.

1911    Frank William RITTER, son of William Isaac Ritter & Louise Sophia Schultz,                 husband of Faith Elizabeth Beer

1926    Willie Jean FORTENBERRY, daughter of Lemuel Q. Fortenberry & Lillian                     Ellzey, wife of Norman Ralph Simmons

1929    Thiry Yvonne BROWN, daughter of Hubert Allen Brown & Freddie Beatrice                     Smith, wife of Robert Edward Fegan

13 January    

1880    Samuel Harvey WOLF, son of John W. S. Wolf & Elizabeth Jane Anderson

1924    Fred Allen BROWN was the son of Hubert Allen Brown & Freddie Smith.  He                 died 13 July 1932.

14 January    

1807    Margretha RITTER

1818    William Dorten SMITH

1883    Albert Edward GOOD was the son of Joel H Good & Margaret C Brown. He married Elizabeth L Moore. They had six children. Albert lived his life in Ohio. 

1885    Tate Edward FORTENBERRY

1885    George F. LOBAUGH

1896    Velma Odene SMITH

1923    Thomas Clarence WILSON Jr.

15 January    

1819    Mary MARCKS

1820    Moses BROWN Jr. was born in Mississippi, son of Moses Brown and Nancy                     Perkins. 

1826    Elizabeth HOPE

1876    Samuel Omelia BRUMFIELD

1915     Edwin MINTER

1937    James Neron SMITH

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