Elisabeth Marz

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth
Marriage	by March 1775		To Peter Vogele
Death	before 1810	expect Berks/Lehigh Counties border area
Burial

Ancestry chart segment

Generation 7            Generation 8          ' 
                                      
                    +-- Peter Vogele  
                    |   (????-????)       
Elizabetha Vogele --+                    
(????-????)         |                         
                    +-- Elisabeth Marz
                        (????-????)

Sources:

Children

(children with Peter Vogele

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Elizabetha Vogele	F	calc. 22 Mar. 1775		Johan Jacob Klein

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	Records of Lehigh Church/Zion's Lutheran Church Burial Service by Pastor Heinrich Heine: Elisabeth Klein, nee Vogele, wife of Johann Jacob Klein, dau. of Peter Vogele and Elisabeth Marz, the later deceased. Date: February 23, 1810, Age: 34-11-1.	(See text)
2	Personal communication from Ella Beals Wilson, 1990, to E W Williams. There had been a Marz family, distant kin she believed, in the neighborhood around Emlenton, Venango Co. PA.
3	History of Venango County PA, Brown Runk & Co., 1890. Reprinted 1984 Venango Co. Historical Society, Franklin PA, Walsworth Publ. Co., Marceline Missouri. Zion church of the Evangelical Association: The burying ground was given in 1850 by Joseph Disler and David Martz. (Now, Zion Union Cemetery). John Martz was on the building committee for the church erected in 1875. Note: Many families co-migrated from the Lehigh/Berks border area to the Clarion/Venango border area, the Martz family apparently among them.
4	Personal correspondence from Elizabeth Wilson Williams.

Conjecture

• Mertz church, Rockland Twp (immediately south of Longswamp Twp). Records published, see 1988 booklist, Berks Co. Genealogical Society p.1. Also, a Mertz Road runs northward crossing the boundary between Richmond Twp. & Maxatawny Twp, west of the town of Lyons. These 2 townships lie just west of Rockland and Longswamp Twps.
• History of the Counties of Berks and Lebanon by I. Daniel Rupp, 1844 Lancaster PA. p. 226 Longswamp township, "Mertztown, near the north-eastern corner of the township, is a small village, containing between twelve and fifteen dwellings, a tavern and store, a German Reformed and Lutheran church...".
• The spellings Marz, Martz and Mertz are found in the records, and are probably the same family. I n German, "Marz" would be pronounced "Martz".
• In "Historical & Biographical Annals of Berks County PA, 1909 by Montgomery, pgs.8,12. First taxables, believed listed in 1752, Longswamp Twp., Berks Co. PA, includes Nicholas Martz, Peter Martz, Joast Mertz (and a Henry Mentz), none of which are single men.
  Pg. 1409. Signers of a petition to create Longswapm Township include Jacob Mertz and Peter Mertz.
  Pg. 1051 Longswamp Reformed Church, 1748 building committee included Nicholas Martz, David Mertz, and Peter Mertz.
• Deed #D 423, Unregistered Deeds collection, Lehigh County Historical Society Library. In an 1833 transaction between George Bieber & wife, George Smith & wife, and Henry Keck, the property in question borders land owned by Joseph Martz.

Longswamp Reformed Church

Baptisms & sponsors of interest:
Children of Jacob & Magdalena Mertz:

• Conrad Mertz, 1760, sponsors Conrad Mertz & Elisabeth Hammerig
• Elisabeth Mertz born 16 Apr, bapt.23 May 1762, sponsors Peter Mertz & Elisabeth Mertz
  (Note: This Elisabeth Mertz would be age 14 in 1775 when our Elisabeth Vogele, dau of Elisabeth Marz, was born.)
• Anna Catharina Mertz, 1763, sponsors Philip & Catherine Braun.

Additional children of Jacob Mertz:

• David Mertz, 20 Oct. 1774, to Jacob Mertz & wf., sponsors David Mertz & Barbara Miller
• Catharina Mertz, 1778, to Jacob Mertz & Margaretha, sponsors Nicholas & Catherine Mertz
  Note: 'Jacob & Margaretha" may indicate a different couple, or "Margaretha" may be a mistake in the record, substituted for Magdalena. Magdalena's name appears again in 1783 as the parents apparently sponsor the baptism, of daughter named Magdalena. This seems to rule out the possibility of Margaretha having been a 2nd wife to Jacob.
• Maria Eva 1782, to Jacob & wf., sponsors sponsor Eva Mertz
• Magdalena 1783 to Jacob Mertz & wf., sponsors Jacob & Magdalena Mertz.

Children of Philip & Eva Mertz

• Susanna Mertz, 1776, sponsors David Mertz & Barbara Miller (singel)
• Elisabeth Mertz born 12 April 1779, bapt. 23 May 1779, sponsors Peter & Elisabetha Voegele

Children sponsored by Philip & Eva Mertz

• Anna Maria Vegele 1782, born to Peter Vegele & wf.
• Philip Mertz 1784, born to Johannes Mertz

Other Mertz baptism & sponsors of interest:

• Jacob Mertz,1752
• Daniel Mertz 17 Dec. 1779, sponsors Peter & Catherine Klein
• Isaac Mertz 1777, sponsors Peter & Christina Klein
• Abraham Vogele 1776 to Heinrich Vogele, sponsor Abraham Mertz
• Elisabetha Vogele 1775 to Heinrich Vogele & Barbara, sponsors Elisabeth Mertz & Peter Vegely
• Anna Maria Mertz 1778, sponsors Heinrich Vogele & Barbara.
• Elisabeth Mertz 1810, sponsors Heinrich Vogele & Anna Margaretha.

Records of Marriages by J. H. Helfrich 1790-1810

• Elizabeth Marx(sic) m. John Pfaltzgraf, Mar. 19, 1809, Doni (at home).
• Wilh. Mertz, Nov. 1791, Doni.
• Barbara Mertz m. Peter Metzger, Jan. 1796, Doni.
• Elizabeth Mertz m. Henrich Miller, Apr. 1797, Heidelberg.
• Joh. Mertz m. Catharina Sterner, Jan. 1798, Longswamp.
• Philip Mertz m. Elizageth Miller Jan 1808, Doni
• Peter Mertz m. Johanna Fey Dec. 1807, Longswamp.