Albert Sheppard “Bert” Minerd & Ethel Buchanan (Minerd)

Bert and Ethel were married in a religious & civil ceremony on December 25th, 1908 in home of Ethel’s uncle, James Dickens by Reverend G.E. Letchworth and witnessed by Isaac Herschel Minerd.¹ 

• Marriage/Union Notes
  • http://www.minerd.com/bio-minerd,_alberts.htm
    
    On Christmas Day 1908, Albert married Ethel Buchanan (1889-1967) of Normalville, Fayette County. The ceremony was held at the home of Ethel’s uncle, James Dickens, and was performed by the Rev. G.E. Letchworth, assisted by Albert’s father. Ethel “wore a beautiful soft white silk dress and carried white roses,” said a newspaper account.  “The decorations were in mountain pine, mistletoe and white roses, carrying out the colors, green and white. After the ceremony there was an elegant course dinner … after which the bride and groom were escorted to the 4 o’clock train and sent off for a short trip with all the proper rites….”
    
    
    
    
    
    http://www.minerd.com/bio-minerd,_isaacherschel.htm
    
    The wedding gave the Minerds an opportunity to interact with some of their second cousins from Normalville who were friends of Ethel's and were involved in the ceremony – Nettie (Miner) Brooks, Agnes (Miner) Miller and Edward C. Miner. A photograph taken that day, seen at right, shows the two families intermingled in a group. This event may have sowed the seeds of the first Minerd Reunion, which was organized by members of both branches {Isaac and his cousin Martin Miner of Normalville}  just five years later, in 1913.
    
    
    
    

They have a son and a daughter, named Lefty and Margaret.  There are no more children.