All these connections to the Moyers made me search for Elizabeth and I found her on an Internet tree with her exact birth date. That tree said she married J Mertz. It did not have a date of death, meaning, I would think, they did not get her birth date from her tombstone. The tree shows a brother Philip who had a son William P Moyer.

John Moyer who died in 1843 had a son named Philip and a daughter named Elizabeth so I believe Elizabeth was indeed a Moyer and the daughter of John.

This is the man that I think Jack Mertz referred to as John Henry 1809-1890, but I can find no record of such a person. The History of Mifflin County says Peter had a son named John P and since John P was buried at St Peters Union, I’m going with John P as the name of Peter's second son.

He was named in his father’s will who left him his tanyard. He is designated P4a2.

John P stayed local. He was always in Freeburg or Washington Township in Census. It does not appear from Census that John P and Elizabeth had any children at all but there was always a young woman or girl, not related to either of them, living with them.

As of summer 2015, he is not on find-a-grave.

The will of John P Mertz of Freeburg written 14 Feb 1881 left everything to his wife Elizabeth and then after her death to distribute as follows: $300 to Elizabeth Zechman wife of Reuben, a piece of property he owns jointly with Philip Moyer all to him, a piece of property he owns jointly with William P Moyer all to him and the residue of his estate to Lydia Krause.

I have no idea what was special about the Moyers mentioned in the will, but perhaps they were brothers of his wife Elizabeth, maybe she inherited property jointly with them(?). And the mention of Elizabeth Zechman and Lydia Krouse, the two women who lived with John and his wife when they were young girls, makes the point, I think, that John P had no children.