Notes:

Name from Amanda Arbogast Forbes research, confirmed by R. W. Arbogast letter
29 Apr 1992, in file. Year of death differs, 1916 or 1917?

Notes:

Virtually all of the information on this is from letters and other material

from William Jennings Arbogast to Amanda Arbogast Forbes, Genealogist and
Author, during 1972. We are indebted to these individuals for this
information.

Additional data and confirmation of other data from R. W. Arbogast letter 29
Apr 1992 in file. Additional data and confirmation from E. D. Arbogast Letters
in May 1992, in file.

Watson married Nancy Jane Reedy on 20 Dec 1894 in Elkhurst, Clay County, West Virginia, United States. Nancy was born on 3 Jul 1878 in Beaver Mills, Nicholas Co., Wv; died on 3 Apr 1950 in Elkhurst, Clay County, West Virginia, United States; was buried in Arbogast Family Cemetary, Elkhurst, Clay County, WV, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Third born of nine children, from program of 19th Arbogast Reunion in 1991.

All information from R. W. Arbogast letter 29 Apr 1992 in file.

Other Events:

• Residence: 1880, Pleasant, Clay, West Virginia, United States; Age: 55Marital Status: Married; Relation to Head of House: Self

Notes:

Photos of cemetery and gravesite on file. Arbogast reunion held at this site
annually on the Sunday before Labor Day. The 19th reunion was held
on Sept. 1, 1991. Property is now held by grandson, Roscoe Arbogast, Sr.
Descendants of Nichodemus and his brother, George Washington, including related
lines in attendance.

This site is on a ridge between Big and Little Beechy Creeks in Pleasant Twp.,
Clay Co., WV, formerly Nicholas Co. The George Washington Arbogast homestead is
on the next ridge down the Elk River (same side), between Little and Big
Sycamore Creeks.

Following the death of their father, Michael, these two brothers apparently
followed the nearby headwaters of the Elk River, down to this location, then
Nicholas Co., or Braxton Co.,VA, sometime during the period 1842-1847.

SOURCES: Entire Nichodemus line through grandchildren,1860, 70 & 80 Clay Co.
census and Clay Co. Birth, Marriage and Death Records by Amanda Arbogast Forbes
Genealogist and Author, assisted by William Jennings Arbogast personal
recollections, records and letters, including gravestone information.
Compilers personal visit to homestead in 1991.

Some family records sent by R. W. Arbogast, Sr. June 11, 1992 indicate
Nichodemus' second wife was Margaret Ward and mother of Dock and Tecumptas, copy
in file, no documentation.

Nichodemus on 1850 Braxton Co., VA/WV census, age 25, with wife Margaret, age
22 and daugher Edith, age 1.

Nichodemus married Mary Simmons about 1848 in Braxton Heights, Salem (city), Virginia, USA. Mary (daughter of Michael Lum SIMMONS and Mary Ann Obrion) was born in 1828 in Nicholas Co., Va/Wv; died on 31 Aug 1870 in Union City, Clay, West Virginia, United States; was buried in Arbogast Family Cemetary, Elkhurst, Clay County, WV, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Year of birth and date of death from death certificate, Clay Co., WV.

Other Sources- 1860 & 70 census, Clay Co., WV; Wm. J. Arbogast, grandson, and
Amanda Arbogast Forbes records.

Infant Lemuel, born 1 May, 1859, not on 1860 census with this family; listed
with the Geo. Wash. Arbogast, Sr. family. Believe this is a census error or the
Geo. Wash. Arbogast family may have been caring for the infant.

1850 Census of Braxton Co., VA/WV indicates age as 22, name Margaret, with
husband Nichodemus, age 25 and daughter, Edith age 1, all born in VA. Correct
name may have been Mary Margaret Simmons or Nichodemus could have been married
earlier to a Margaret. Olive Reedy Wriston's records indicate a Mary Hanshaw
was Nichodemus' wife at the time Sarah D. Arbogast was born.

Notes:

Listed on census as living in Timber Ridge Section of Pendleton Co.

1820, 30, 40, 50 and 60 census, Pendleton Co.

No will found in Pendleton Co.

See will of his father, John, Pendleton Co., VA, Will Book 4, page 49.

Pendleton Co. birth, death and marriage records.

Clay Co. birth, death and marriage records on children and their families.

Clay Co. census, 1860, 70 and 80.

All of the above research on this family and descendants by Amanda Crawford
Arbogast Forbes with contributions from Joseph Monroe Arbogast, Joanna
Shreves, Daisy Hartmann, Wm. Jennings Arbogast and others.

Michael married Edith Ketterman on 26 Jan 1819 in Riverton, Pendleton, West Virginia, United States. Edith (daughter of George F Ketterman and Mary Magdalena Henkle) was born in 1799 in Riverton, Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA; died on 28 Oct 1879 in Numa, Ia; was buried in Old Livingood Cm, Numa, Ia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Edith went to Iowa with her son, Michael, Jr., right after the 1860 Pendleton
Co. Census and the death of her husband. See Daisy Hartmann Papers, in file.

Edith's brother and sister married a brother and sister of her spouse.
Edith is #5-11-1-4, The Henckel Genealogy.

Edith's tombstone photo in file from Gwendolyn Arbogast Walton,"Edith Arbogast
Died 28 Oct 1879, Aged 78 years" No room on tombstone for mos. & days, so
probably born in 1801.

Michael married Mary Ann Obrion in 1827. Mary was born on 6 Sep 1802 in New Bern, Craven, North Carolina, United States; died in 1891 in Clay Co., West Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]