Myrtle M. Morgan

b. 24 April 1895, d. February 1974
  • Myrtle M. Morgan was born on 24 April 1895 in Pennsylvania.
  • John Morgan and Wilhelmina Scheck appeared in the US federal census of 1 June 1900 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 2517 Harland. Other members of the household included Myrtle M. Morgan, Edith M. Morgan, Wilhelmina M. Morgan and Joseph Constant Turner.
  • John Morgan and Wilhelmina Scheck appeared in the US federal census of 15 April 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 3330 West 15th Street. Other members of the household included Myrtle M. Morgan, Edith M. Morgan, Wilhelmina M. Morgan and Anna Magdalena Dexheimer.
  • The following appeared on 21 April 1916 in the Trenton Evening Times: A wedding of interest to Trentians will take place this evening when Miss Mildred Leah Bobst, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. I. Walton Bobst, of Philadelphia, will become the bride of Arthur Carman Biles, son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel V. Biles, of 23 East State Street. The wedding will be solemnized in the Church of the Reformation, of which church Mr. Bobst is the pastor, at 6 o'clock. Mr. Bobst will perform the ceremony.
         Easter flowers will be used . . .
         Miss Bobst will be attired in a gown of white satin, made en train, and her long veil will be of tulle. She will carry a shower bouquet of white roses and lilies of the valley. She will be given in marriage by her brother, Harry Ranson Bobst.
         The maid of honor will be a sister of the bride, Miss Dorothy Lenore Bobst, and she will wear a gown of gold taffeta and tulle and carry a gilt basket of Easter lilies.
         Mrs. Elmer Holmes Bobst, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. David Peterson Bricker, of Lititz, Pa., will be matrons of honor and their costumes will be of pale gold silk marquisette, trimed with gold lace. They will carry arm bouquets of daffodils. The bridesmaids will be Miss Maud Owen of Camden, formerly of Trenton, and Miss Myrtle Morgan of Philadelphia. Their frocks will be of flowered maize silk marquisette trimmed with gold lace. Their bouquets will be daffodils.
         Elmer Holmes Bobst, of Philadelphia, will be the best man and the ushers will be Charles E. Sommers and Herbert Keevil, of this city, and Albert Welcker and Harry Meiss, of Philadelphia. Master Elmer Walton Bobst will be the ring bearer and will carry the ring upon a yellow satin cushion.
         The bride-elect is well known in this city where her father was pastor of the St. Mark's English Lutheran Church for many years. She was also a student at the Trenton High School and has a host of friends here.
         Sever Trentonians will attend the wedding and among them will be Mrs. Biles, the mothert of the bridegroom. At the wedding she will be attired in black embroidered chiffon over lavender satin trimed with jet and made en train. The aunt of the bridegroom, Mrs. A. F. Williams, will wear black faille and georgette crepe over white satin.
         The mother of the bride will be gowned in an embroidered pearl taffeta.
         A reception will be held at the home of the bride's parents, 3845 North Sisteenth Street, following the ceremony, for the members of the bridal family and the two families. Later the young couple will leave for a wedding trip to the South. Upon their return they will make their home in Philadelphia, and Mr. Biles will commute to this city, where he is connected with the First National Bank.
  • Wilhelmina Scheck appeared in the US federal census of 1 January 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at 3330 15th Street. Other members of the household included Myrtle M. Morgan, Edith M. Morgan and Wilhelmina M. Morgan.
  • She married George Raymond Reimer, son of Edwin Reimer and Rosa Miller, on 28 January 1920 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • She was a school teacher, according to the 1920 census.
  • The following appeared on 8 February 1920 in The Philadelphia Inquirer: Mrs. W. L. Morgan of North Fifteenth street, near Venango, has announced the marriage of her daughter, Miss Myrtle M. Morgan, to George R. Reimer, of Trevose, in the northern section, on Wednesday, January 28, in Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Reimer are spending a month in the south and after March first, will be at home at their new residence, in Trevose.
  • George Raymond Reimer and Myrtle M. Morgan appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Union, Union County, New Jersey. Other members of the household included Ruth Anne Reimer and Jeanne Reimer.
  • Myrtle M. Morgan became a widow at the January 1970 death of her husband George Raymond Reimer.
  • The SSDI lists Union, New Jersey, as the last residence of record of Myrtle M. Morgan.
  • Myrtle M. Morgan died in February 1974 at age 78.
  • Ruth Hoffman treasured a small collection of greeting cards and postcards received during her childhood from distant family in Philadelphia, whom she supposed to be Dexheimer descendants: Louisa and Katie Heldt were daughters of Philippina Dexheimer Heldt, and Wilhelmina, Myrtle and Edith Morgan, and Horace Dehler were grandchildren of Philippina's elder sister Magdalena Dexheimer Scheck. Edna Rogers was a niece of Eugene Rogers, husband of Magdalena's daughter Adeline.
  • Last Edited: 4 Jul 2012

Family: George Raymond Reimer b. 5 March 1891, d. January 1970