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Note: Marriage License for Charles and Sadie # 20214 State of PA, County of York, on October 16, 1907 Sadie and Charles applied fo the marriage license. Parental consent was given for Sadie. Both reprted no previous marriages but Charles had been married before. Marriage was on October 17, 1907 by Minister M.I. Jamison.
Sadie was a milliner at the time of the marriage.
Sadie's sister, Mabel Heckert, married William Sechrist, brother of Sadie's husband, Charles.
Sadie married Charles A. Sechrist Oct. 6, 1907. Their first child, Gearld, died at the age of 6 months in 1910. When she was pregnant with Geraldine in 1914, Charles deserted her. They divorced Jan 1916.
Sadie went to Washington and found work as a milliner. Her daughters, Vernette and Geraldine, lived with Sadie's parents, John and Henriette Euler Heckert, in York. Sadie returned to York often and on one trip on the train, she met John ( Jack( Monroe, and they married. He had been living in Lake Keuka, Ny in Watkins Glen at the time they met, according to Geraldine's recollections. Jack had a brother named Perry who had 2 sets of twins and another child born betwee the 2 births of the 2 sets of twins.
Sadie and Jack lived in Wilmington, DE in 1918 with Vernette and Geraldine. They had a child, Gordon, who was born in 1919 but he died in 1922 at the age of 2 years and 8 months. Sadie and Jack moved to Allentown in 1922. Gordon had pleurosy and pneumonia and was in quarrentine. Geraldine remembers that her grandmother Henrietta Heckert and Vivian ( daughter of William and Mabel Sechrist) came to help them. Everyone then contracted diptheria except Geraldine.
Sadie and Jack had another baby who died at birth. Geraldine recalls that the doctor was drunk and got there too late to save the baby.
Geraldine spent the summers in York with her grandparents John and Henrietta Heckert. She loved them very much. There was a strong family bond.
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