Antoinette Walters Simcox Merkel

Antoinette Walters was born about 1886 in New York, as all her siblings. Per early censuses, her parents were both from Germany. Although in later censuses she indicated her mother was born in Poland. Her mother's name was Rose Schmidt Walters. (Rose's maiden names also possibly Bakowitz, Prokofsky and Laboski). Per some siblings marriage and birth info, her father's name was Anthony (or Anton, anthony in German), Walters. The surname sometimes appears as Walter. As of the 1910 Census, her mother Rose was a widow and the family lived in Brooklyn with 2 other of Rose's children, George and Agnes (the other 2 girls were married, Rose Walters Starr and Cecelia Walters Lennon). Antoinette was a bookbinder. On May 12, 1910 Antoinette married Joseph Simcox. They lived in Manhattan and appear in the 1915 NY State Census. Joseph died 1/8/1928. Am still researching when Antoinette acquired the surname Merkle. She uses it in the 1940 Census (in Manhattan with a boarder) and had widow marital status. Her death certificate stated she died at Bellevue Hospital. Do not know her place of interment.