Estella Alberta Wehr

  General Notes:

Estella's mother Ida Henry died when Estella was 8 years old. Her father, Charles, put the two girls up for adoption. Minnie went with one family, and Estella was adopted by the Wertman's, the local undertaker.

The Schleicher children remember their mother:

Mother as an orphan was taken in and lived with Willis
Wertman in mantzville where she worked as a young girl as telephone operator
I believe Dad was working at the Packerton Shops RR and do not know how they
met but recall his tales of helping with embalming in Wertmans funeral home
where they lived for a year or two and where I was born.

Ernest Schleicher, Estella's son, remembers that Estella was not an orphan and was raised, not adopted, by the Wertman's.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Adoption, Between 1911 and 1912, Adopted By Willis Wertman Of Montvalle.

• Census, 10 Jan 1920, West Penn Township, Schuylkill Co, Pennsylvania. ³ 1920 Census.
West Penn Twp, NE & SE Dist Schuylkill Co, Pennsylvania
Supervisor District 7 Enumeration District 155 Sheet 4 A
Jacob A Eberts Enumerator

Line 38-40 Residence 61

Wertman, W A head 53
Alice wife 52
Wehr, Stella adopted 16 (per Ernie Schleicher she wasn't adopted but raised)

• Occupation: Telephone Operator, 1925. ⁴

• Residence, 1930, Tamaqua/ West Penn Twp, Schuykill Co, Pennsylvania.

• Occupation: General Store and Restaurant/Clamtown,West penn,Carbon,Pennsylvania, 1935.

• Residence, 1960, 1631 East Turner St/ Clearwater, Pinellas, Florida.

• Alt. Death, 12 May 1970, Alternate Date Of Death.

Estella married Clayton Peters Schleicher, son of Oliver Daniel Schleicher and Emma Louise Peters, on 28 Feb 1925 in Normal, Carbon Co., Pennsylvania.¹ (Clayton Peters Schleicher was born on 9 Nov 1905 in Ashfield, East Penn Twp, Carbon Co, Pennsylvania,¹ died on 1 Jan 1973 in Clearwater, Pinellas, Florida and was buried in Jan 1973 in Lauraldale Cem., Reading, Pennsylvania.)

  Marriage Notes:

Clayton had to get Olivers ok for his marriage as he was underage.