Her name is given as Susanna Christman on find-a-grave. It is interesting that in the 1860 estate file for Benjamin Mertz, all three of his sons have the middle initial C — I would guess Christman in all cases.

This new naming system seems to have caught on with several Berks County Mertzes in the mid-1800’s.

After her husband died, Susan is a little hard to find in Census.

In 1870, a candidate was Susanna, age 67, living in New Hanover Towsnhip, Montgomery County. This is where an unidentified Mertz family had lived in the early 1800’s so I had to be careful before just assuming this was Benjamin’s widow.

But the household seems to be the remnants of Benjamin’s family including sons Benjamin and Daniel. Moreover, I have been able to prove that Benjamin indeed lived in 1880 in Montgomery County so I believe that is where he moved bringing, in 1870, the rest of his family with him.

Benjamin was named as his son in Jacob’s estate file. Everything I know about him is consistent with this fact. Benjamin is designated H3b.

Benjamin stayed in Rockland Township and was listed there in the 1820-1860 Census.

Benjamin is on find-a-grave.