Grandma and Grandpa Wehrell

I believe this gathering of the Wehrells took place in Saddle River at Grandma’s and Grandpa’s first post-retirement home in 1949 on the occasion of their 40th wedding anniversary.  They were married in the Jackson home at 24 Sheridan Ave in Paterson in December 1909.  The family story I was told many years later by my mother, who obviously was not at the wedding, is that they were married on Christmas during the great 1909 Christmas blizzard.  I am not so sure they were married on Christmas day, but I invite any other versions of or additions to the story of their marriage to enhance my account and to have them added to this one on the blog.  Roger

Cousin's Reunion in Florida 2016

A reunion in Alsace of a North American Wehrell during the summer of 1938.

 A reunion in Alsace of a North American Wehrell with some of his cousins in Alsace during the summer of 1938.  One of grandpa’s uncles, Joseph Wehrell, is the short man without a hat on in the photo.  He followed grandpa’s family to Paterson, NJ. in 1889 and began his own family there.  49 years later he decided to pay a visit to his cousins in Alsace.  He returned to Paterson from his visit in the autumn of 1938 and died there the following year.  In 2010, before our son’s wedding in Barcelona, Sue, Lynnette, Nils, and I paid a visit to Madame Mercadiel, then named “Margueritte Carion” , the young lady kneeling  in the middle of the 3 young ladies in the front row.  She would be one of our third cousins.”