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
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
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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