MARRIAGE: Edward C. WERTZ to Jennie M. DeVORE, 1918, Blair County, PA

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WERTZ - DEVORE.

  At 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon at the home of the bride's mother, 
Mrs. Annie Catherine De Vore, 2014 Seventh avenue, Miss Jennie Mae De 
Vore was united in marriage to Edward Calvin Wertz, by the Rev. J. W. 
Wilt, pastor of the Juniata Park church of the Brethren, the ring 
ceremony being used.  Only the immediate families were in attendance.  
Mrs. Wertz is a daughter of the late George E. De Vore who enlisted in 
the U.S. army last January, and died in a base hospital in France, from 
an attack of pneumonia, September 9.  She was employed as a shipping 
clerk in the Altoona Silk mill for the past five years, and is a 
popular and highly esteemed young lady.  The bridegroom, who formerly 
lived in Newry, is a well known blacksmith employed in the Fourteenth 
Street Machine Shops.  The young couple will reside for the present at 
the home of the bride's mother.

Altoona Times, Altoona, Pa., Wednesday Morning, November 13, 1918