Friday, January 17, 2025

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!

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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16 January
1893    Eugene S BRADY, son of Owen Brady & Mary McGovern
1919    Courtney Jane SIMMONS; daughter of Fletcher Boyd BrumfieldMattie 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
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 BrownFreddie Beatrice Smith,                     husband of Beverly J. Thames.

23 January
1903    Nina Belle HURD
1921    Borden Hamilton BROWNson of Hubert Allen BrownFreddie 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     
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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