This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mertz, Hansen Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CGC.2ACI/759 Message Board Post: The Weekly Times - Oshkosh, WI March 13, 1897 A very pretty wedding was that of Mr. Otto Mertz and Miss Marie Hansen colemnized at the home of the latter's parents, Mrs. Marion Hansen, 23 Frederick avenue, Wednesday at high noon. The ceremony was Epixcopallian in form, Rev. F. R. Haff pronouncing the words that made the two man and wife, the bride being given away by her undle J. E. Williams, the opera house manager. The wedding march was played by Dunning P. jones. The bride was attired in a charming traveling suit of blue. At the conclusion of the ceremony the guests, twenty in number, partook of a wedding breakfast, the brid and groom leaving at 12:45 for sourthern points and on their return they will take up their residence in Gladstone, Mich., where Mr. Mertz is a prosperous business man. Mrs. Mertz, nee Hansen, was supply teacher here in the public schools previous to her removal to Gladstone, Mich., where she became acquainted with the gentleman whom she has wedded.