Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
Mertz Genealogy - Person Sheet
NameNicholas Arbogast 
Birth7 October 1771
Memo(tombstone on find-a-grave)
Death3 July 1851154
Memo(tombstone on find-a-grave)
BurialSt John’s, Perry Twp, Snyder Co, PA
Spouses
Birth9 November 1777
Memo(tombstone on find-a-grave)
Death13 September 1847
Memo(tombstone on find-a-grave)
BurialSt John’s, Perry Twp, Snyder Co, PA
Father4G GF Philip Mertz (P4) (~1746-1804)
Mother4G GM Anna Eva (~1750-~1811)
Parent-Proof notes for Anna Eva (Spouse 1)
She was mentioned in her father's 1803 will and her baptism was recorded at Longswamp.
My Comments notes for Anna Eva (Spouse 1)
Justin Houser descends from Anna Eva and Nicholas Arbogast. He recounted to me that “even with Anna Eva I had quite a time because people thought that Nichlolas Arbogast had two wives; Anna Eva Mertz, and then a Sabina who is supposedly buried next to him. Then I discovered that the date of birth for Sabina, as given on her gravestone, matched exactly with that of Anna Eva given in the Longswamp Church records. But it also turns out that her tombstone clearly says Eva. Sabina was just made up and appears to be someone's misreading of her stone. It always pays to go back to the source.” There is a photo of Eva’s tombstone on find-a-grave and I guess I can see that someone may have mis-read it as Sba from which they made the leap to Sabina. Justin is absolutely right that you can never be too thorough.