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 August
1920 Roy Elmer MAURER was born in Ohio, son of Elmer Maurer & Pauline Morrison. He married Betty Mae Stimson. Roy died in Ohio in 1997.
2 August
1830 Jeptha Josephus ALFORD, MD was born in MS, son of Edwin Barksdale Alford & Martha P. Smith. He married Fanny Roberts. He is buried in the Silver Springs Baptist Church Cemetery.
1832 Saloma Anna RITTER, daughter of Daniel Ritter & Lydia Knauss
1878 Henry Chesterfield ARNOLD
3 August
1823 William Henry Harrison ALFORD, son of Edwin Barksdale Alford & Martha P. Smith, husband of Mary Martha McDaniels
1919 Thomas James COYLE was born in Connecticut, son of James Joseph Coyle & Madeline Herbst. In 1944 he married Roseanne S. Vozella. They had five children.
1935 James RODGERS
4 August
1758 Johan Daniel RITTER, son of Caspar Ritter
1859 Luke T. FORTENBERRY, son of Burrell Taylor Fortenberry & Eliza Jane Ellzey
1867 Mary Josephine MULLANE was born in Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland, daughter of Daniel Mullane & Brigid English. She was my great grandmother. She married Michael Coyle in NYC in 1895. She had seven children. Mary Jo died in 1927.
5 August
1868 Alvira E. BROWN, daughter of Allen Moses Brown & Emmaline Melica Smith
1892 Bertha FORTENBERRY was the daughter of Howell Fortenberry & Mary Ann Alford. She married Grady Henry Ellzey. Children: Wesley, Odean, Carell & Ellen.
6 August
1836 Jonas WOLF, son of Andrew Wolf & Catherine Dick
7 August
1855 Charlotte Angelina BRUMFIELD, daughter of Elijah Brumfield & Charlotte Temple Ott, wife of Eli W. Brock
1921 Olgee Sheline BRUMFIELD was the daughter of John Edward Brumfield & Ada Beatrice Fortenberry.
8 August
1771 Johannes RITTER Jr., son of Johannes Ritter Sr. & Maria Elisabeth Keck
1846 Martha Elizabeth ALFORD was born in MS, daughter of Edwin Barksdale Alford & Martha P. Smith. She married Jessie A. Brumfield. They had eight children. She was my 2nd great grandmother.
1865 Rosa HAHN
1875 Charles A. WOLF, son of Peter Alfred Wolf & Mary Elizabeth Adams
1875 Sarah Emma WOLF, daughter of John W. S. Wolf & Elizabeth Jane Anderson
1881 Mona D. MORRISON, daughter of Seth Benner Morrison & Margaret Jane Gruissy, wife of Roy Hurd
1888 Thomas Clarence WILSON
9 August
1906 Boyce Boo MORRIS was the son of George A. Morris & Mary Louise Fortenberry. He married Carrie Lee. They had four children. Boyce died in 1995.
10 August
1840 Thomas Jefferson MARK died in the Civil War. He was born in Ohio, the oldest son of Abraham Mark & Mary Isabella Heffelfinger. Thomas was in the 118th Regiment, Company E of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He died 16 January 1863 in Kentucky.
1871 Martha Ann NEE
1911 Onice Odwell CUTRER
11 August
1860 Webster FORTENBERRY, son of William John Fortenberry & Elizabeth Martha Ann Cutrer, husband of Nannie Ellzey
1917 Odean ELLZEY was the daughter of Grady Henry Ellzey & Bertha Fortenberry. She married James Lemar Simmons.
12 August
1848 Marion MARK served in the Civil War. He was born in Ohio, son of Abraham Mark & Mary Isabella Heffelfinger. He married Jennie.
1857 Canolia A. SIMMONS
1875 Barney Pipkin ALFORD, son of Needham Edwin Alford & Mary L. Stafford
13 August
1861 Mary E. BROWN, daughter of Allen Moses Brown & Emmaline Melica Smith
1876 Lulu BLADES
1918 Hanzel Eileen MESSMORE was the daughter of William Henry Messmore & Susan Isabel Ritter.
14 August
1738 Appollonia DICK was born at sea, from Germany to America, daughter of Johan Adam Dick & Anna Ottilla Knack. She married Johann Jonas Dick. They had ten children all born in Pennsylvania. She was my 5th great grandmother.
1802 Louisa WOLF
1823 George WOLF, son of Andrew Wolf
1834 John KRICK
15 August
1834 Seaborn S. ALFORD MD was born in MS, son of Edwin Barksdale Alford & Martha P. Smith. He married Anice Ball. Seaborn died in 1906.
1868 Julius Wesley ALFORD
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