MARRIAGE: Merritt BANKERT to Mamie [Minnie] MYERS, 1900, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by JRB Copyright 2007. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _______________________________________________ BANKERT - MYERS. Last evening at 5 o'clock at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Lemmon Wissinger, 1104 Eighteenth street, Rev. J. F. Moyer united in marriage Mr. Merritt Bankert, of Wilkinsburg, Pa., and Miss Mamie Myers, of Altoona, Pa. Miss Loretta Wissinger served as bridesmaid and Mr. D. W. Baker, of Pittsburg, was best man. Miss Gertie Wissinger gracefully presided at the organ and played the wedding march. Only the near relatives of the young couple were present at the ceremony, about twenty in number. At 6 p.m. the wedding party sat down to a bounteous wedding supper. The groom is a telegraph operator with the Pennsylvania road at Wilkinsburg and an exemplary and prosperous young man. The bride is an excellent young lady and well fitted for the position in life she is destined to occupy. The young couple left on the 10.47 train for Wilkinsburg, where they will at once go to housekeeping in their finely furnished home. The best wishes of their many friends follow them. Morning Tribune, Thursday, February 15, 1900 1910 Wilkinsburg Ward 3, Allegheny County census - Merrett Bankert, 42 Minnie Bankert, 34 Susan J. Bankert, 9 Herman C. Bankert, 6 Jno L. G. Banker,t 4 Charles W. Bankert, 2/12 Mary F. G. Bankert, 36