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Beck / Wagner — marriages page from family Bible 
Note.
In 2012 this family Bible was in the possession of
Billy Eugene Wagner, Rancho Cordova, California,
albeit in a state of some disrepair.
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MARRIAGES
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Emil Adler /
Bertha Swartz
marriage record —
28 Sep 1889
Kansas City [Jackson] Missouri |
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The marriage was performed by J.C. Feil in St. Peter's Church, at the
corner of 14th and Oak in Kansas City, Missouri.
In those years, the marriage age of consent was 21 for men and 18 for women. Emil was 28 then, and Bertha was 23. It appears that Emil came to the United States first, probably in 1882 (per notations on the 1910 and 1920 Census forms). Bertha arrived in New York on 12 Jul 1886. Of interest, both were born in the Province of Posen in the 1860s — then part of the Kingdom of Prussia. It may well be that they had met and got engaged in Prussia, Emil emigrated first to prepare things for Bertha — and perhaps even earn funds for her to join him later. These were very common arrangements. |
Of further interest, Bertha traveled aboard the German Line steamship
AUSTRALIA with an older friend, and carried with her "one basket"
of personal belongings. Times were hard, and few could bring more than
a few possessions with them.
The passenger list says she occupied a single space on the poop-deck — an exposed "partial deck" on the ship's superstructure near the stern. This was by no means first-class travel, but may have been preferable to being crammed in steerage, down in the stifling, confined hull of the ship. In any case, her trip must have been a daunting two-week experience, even in a warm July crossing of the Atlantic. All immigrants understood it would take awhile to adapt to a new country and learn a new language. But even on the ship's passenger list, Bertha listed her destination as "Kansas City" — she clearly knew exactly where she was headed. |
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Otto Adler /
Grace Hendrickson
marriage record —
7 Feb 1917
Kansas City [Jackson] Missouri |
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The marriage was performed by O.P. Joyce at 3950 Genesee Street in
Kansas City, Missouri. Of some interest, a quarter-century later,
Joyce also presided at the 1942 marriage of Otto and Grace's son,
Otto Kenneth Adler I, to Shirley Annalee Tennis.
Grace was 17, and so required the consent of a parent — note that the license / certificate has a handwritten note "By the consent of her father." Otto was "over twenty-one" — actually, he was 23. |
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Otto Kenneth Adler I /
Shirley Ann[alee] Tennis
marriage record —
28 May 1942
Raytown [Jackson] Missouri Their marriage license was obtained 26 May 1942, and the ceremony was performed two days later, on the 28th, by O.P. Joyce. Of interest, Mr. Joyce had also officiated at the 1917 marriage of Otto Kenneth's parents, Otto Adler and Grace L. Hendrickson. Note the "(Dr)" before Otto Kenneth's name. Clearly, they postponed marriage until he had finished his osteopathic medical training — a prudent move, in a country just barely out of the Depression, and recently plunged into World War II. He was 22 then, and she was 21. |
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