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 and places.
1 March
1776 Anna Margaretha RITTER, b in PA, daughter of Johannes Ritter Sr. & Maria Elisabeth Keck
1807 Jesse Kelly BRUMFIELD, born in South Carolina; son of John Brumfield & Margaret Kelly; husband of
1885 Julia MULLANE was born in Tipperary, Ireland, daughter of Daniel Mullane & Brigid English. Julia married Timothy Horgan in 1916. She d. 1918.
2 March
1827 Josiah BRUMFIELD, son of Willis Brumfield & Nancy Virginia Holmes
1904 Bertha FLICKINGER lived her life in Ohio, daughter of Andrew & Emma Flickinger. She married Charles Forest Mark in 1923. She wrote a short genealogy of the Mark family which was helpful to my research.
1914 Cecil Clare FORTENBERRY, son of Tate Edward Fortenberry & Lucy Viola Brown, husband of Lovie Wilson
1915 Zelda Marie ALFORD, b in LA, daughter of Dewitt William Alford & Ina Lucille Brown, wife of Ray Luther Fortenberry
1920 Iris Elizabeth PIERCE, daughter of Arlie Wesley Pierce
3 March
1892 Denny Herbert SMITH b in MS, son of Elvin Dennie Smith & Nancy Cordelia Smith. He married Mavis Marie Brown, daughter of Jasper Pascal Brown and Rose Ella Brumfield.
1934 Lemuel Jerome FORTENBERRY, son of Duviox B. Fortenberry & Gussie Alford, husband of Evelyn Russell
4 March
1845 Jesse E. BRUMFIELD, son of Davis Brumfield & Cynthia Holmes
1861 Willis Monroe FORTENBERRY, son of Willis James Fortenberry
5 March
1838 William L. DAVIS, husband of Narcissa A. Fortenberry
1880 Irene Edith WOLF, daughter of Peter Alfred Wolf
1924 Sylvia Rayleen BROWN b in Louisiana, daughter of Roy Jessie Brown and Mary Thelma Ellzey. She married Jessie Miles Hall in 1942. They had five children.
6 March
1772 Heinrich FRANTZ, husband of Margaretta Ritter
1882 Jesse Lamar SIMMONS
1920 Mary Alice ALFORD b in Louisiana, daughter of Dewitt William Alford & Ina Lucille Brown. She married George Bennett.
7 March
1872 Needham Nugent ALFORD, son of Seaborn John Alford & Mary S. Kirk
1891 Maryanne COYLE b in CT, daughter of Patrick Coyle & Margaret Brady. She married William F Cass.
1926 Dean Forest RITTER, son of Fredrick Isaac Ritter & Elta Mae Sprankle
8 March
1870 Infant RITTER b in Ohio, 12th child of Isaac Ritter & Isabell Fisher. Mother & child died in childbirth.
1879 Eckie John ELLZEY, son of Oscar J. Lafayette Ellzey & Elizabeth Fortenberry
1894 John N. LOBAUGH, son of John Adam Lobaugh & Christine Wolf
1902 Roy Jessie BROWN, son of Jasper Pascal Brown & Rose Ella Brumfield; husband of Ivy Regina Mark. Roy was my paternal grandfather.
9 March
1801 Isaac BRUMFIELD b in SC, son of John Brumfield & Margaret Kelly. Isaac married Elizabeth Holmes. Their children were: Nathaniel, Jesse, Harrison & Lucy Jane.
1839 Adam WOLF, son of Andrew Wolf & Catherine Dick
1839 Anna Maria Catherine WOLF, daughter of Andrew Wolf & Catherine Dick
1894 Napoleon Bonaparte BLADES, son of William Ephraim Blades & Morgana Josephine McDaniel
10 March
1820 Philip RITTER b in PA, son of Johannes Ritter, Jr. & Anna Mariah. Philip married Louisa Ann Kope. Their children were: Jacob, Henry & Mary.
1838 David Jackson MCCLENDON, husband of Eliza Jane Smith
1899 Helen Lucille JOLLIFF, daughter of Samuel Martin Jolliff & Margaret M. Mark
1900 Charles Cecil WOLF, son of Charles Albert Wolf
1903 Harold SWAGLER, son of Delbert Milton Swagler & Lena Bella Morrison
11 March
1789 Daniel RITTER b in PA, son of Martin Ritter & Anna Margaret Steininger. He married Lydia Knauss in 1812. They had three children.
1834 Louisa WOLF, daughter of Frederick Wolf & Louisa C Goetz
1849 Hamilton WOLF, son of Henry H Wolf & Maria Magdalena
1909 Grace Regina RYAN, wife of Thomas J. Brady
12 March
1856 Benjamin C. FORTENBERRY, born in Mississippi; son Burrell Taylor Fortenberry & Eliza Jane Ellzey. He lived 38 years.
1881 Forest Emerson HAWK, son of William Hawk & Elizabeth Ritter. He married Millicent Cox. He’s my first cousin, three times removed.
1892 Spurgeon Ira SMITH, son of Walter Lorraine Smith
1915 Lemuel Q. FORTENBERRY; son of Lemuel Q. Fortenberry & Lillian Ellzey
1933 Onice Levaughn CUTRER, b in Alabama
13 March
1828 Samantha Evangeline BROWN, b in OH, daughter of Moses Brown & Nancy Chandler Perkins. She lived 23 years.
1829 John Shaffer ELLZEY Jr.
1888 Anna Ora Chloe MILLER, daughter of Henry C. Miller & Mary Catherine Ritter
1913 Ruth Grace HURD, b in Michigan, daughter of Roy Hurd & Mona D. Morrison. Ruth married John Wortman. Their children were: Brenda, John & Danny.
14 March
1834 Ann Julina RITTER, daughter of Michael Ritter
1845 Ancil Green SMITH was the son of Jeremiah Smith & Pernecia Smith. Ancil died 18 June 1862, at the age of 17. Ancil was killed in the Civil War.
1857 Peter Jonathan MOORE, husband of Caroline Louise Gruissy
15 March
1837 Martin Penn BRUMFIELD, b in LA, the son of Nathaniel Brumfield & Charlotte Temple Ott. He served as a Private and later as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Louisiana Infantry. He died in 1862.
1929 Dana Jacob MARK, b in Ohio, son of Eslie Guy Mark & Golda Mae Warner
