Is your birthday in November? 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.
4 November
1711 Anna Ottilla KNACK was my sixth great grandmother. She was born in Germany where she married Johan Adam Dick in 1731. They came to America in 1738 and settled in Pennsylvania. They had seven children, the first three born in Germany and the fourth born at sea while sailing to America. Anna lived to be 70 years old.
1827 Samuel WOLF, son of Frederick Wolf & Louisa C Goetz. He lived his life in Pennsylvania.
5 November
1883 Addie Angeline CUTRER married Walter Lee Blades, son of William Blades & Morgana McDaniel. They had two children: Ira & Velma.
6 November
1886 Anna Slaby MOORE
1911 Susie SMITH, wife of Alton Woodrow Wilson
1915 Ernest Miles MARK was born in Ohio, son of Amos Martin Mark & Lillian Hoverstock. He married Helen Virginia Sampsel. Four children: Carl, Naomi, Marita & Melvin. He was a farmer in Chester Township and later a custodian at Congress Junior High School. He was my first cousin, twice removed.
1916 William T. COYLE, son of William Paul Coyle & Lauretta Niail
7 November
1781 Martin RITTER, son of Martin Ritter & Anna Margaret Steininger; father of 11 children; He lived 81 years.
1927 Jessie Elizabeth OVERBY was born in Kentucky. She married Bernarr Jessee Reynolds in 1950 in Oregon. They had three children: Michael, Rebecca & Patrick.
8 November
1877 Ralph Clyaton KAUFMAN, husband of Margaret Maude Mark
1884 Clement RITTER, son of Anthony Casper Ritter & Emma Alice Mowrer
1901 Vernon Arthur SPICE was born in Ohio, son of Arthur Spice & Emaline Floy Moore. Vernon married Gladys B. Johnson. Four children: Loren, Marilyn, Neil & Carol.
1902 Peter C. MORRISON
1929 Robert John SOMMER
9 November
1870 Joseph Martin ALFORD was born in Louisiana, son of Needham Edwin Alford & Mary Louiza Stafford. He died in 1962.
10 November
1749 Anna Barbara RITTER, daughter of Martin Ritter
1749 Martin RITTER, son of Heinrich Ritter & Maria Elizabeth Tutt
1823 Isaac Nelson BRUMFIELD was born in Louisiana, son of Willis Brumfield & Nancy Virginia Holmes. He married Sarah J. Smith in 1854 in Mississippi. They had ten children.
1892 Madeline HERBST
11 November
1854 Emma Louise WOLF was the third child of Jeremiah Wolf & Eliza Ann Reigle. She died in 1856, only 23 months old.
12 November
1812 Abraham MARK was born in Corliss, Pennsylvania. He’s my third great grandfather. I have been unable to find any information on his parents or siblings. He married Mary Isabella Heffelfinger. They had eight sons. Four served in the Civil War.
1912 William Francis BRADY
14 November
1838 Julius Newton ALFORD, son of Edwin Barksdale Alford & Martha P. Smith, husband of Mary Margaret Brumfield. He was my 3x great uncle.
1874 Marian Francis MARK, son of William Mark & Emma Abeline Flory
1927 John Edward DENISON was born in Louisiana, son of Jimmie Dean Denison& Jessie Ola Hall. He died in 2002 in Germany.
15 November
1808 Jesse BALL married Cynthia Ann Alford, daughter of Edwin Barksdale Alford & Martha P. Smith.
1888 Noah E. BALDES
1909 Lloyd HEIGLE
1913 Isaac Omer CUTRER
