Notes:

From, Our Family, The Colaws of Virginia and Points West, by Shirley Colaw
Howell, 1885, including child, Virginia.

Henry married Martha J. Arbogast on 25 Feb 1885 in Highland Co., Va. Martha (daughter of Levi Arbogast and Catherine Penninger) was born in 1856 in Crabbottom, Highland Co., Va; died in 1939 in Crabbottom, Highland Co., Va. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source is Amanda Arbogast Forbes research and family group record of parents.

Notes:

Source is Amanda Arbogast research and references to 1850 - 1870 census of
Highland Co., VA and tombstone in family cemetery on a hill near Blue Grass,
VA. Date of birth on tombstone of 1817 does seem correct.

Levi married Catherine Penninger on 26 Nov 1848 in Pendleton Co., Va/Wv. Catherine was born on 16 May 1820 in Pendleton Co., Va/Wv; died on 30 Jun 1864 in Crabbottom, Highland Co., Va. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source is Amanda Arbogast research and family group record.
Grave marker inscribed Catharine Arbogast in Arbogast cemetery on high hill
above old homestead near Blue Grass, VA - C.J.Eades visited site in 1998 along
with wife, Doris, and cousin, Oliver Wendell Arbogast and wife, Belle.

Notes:

MARRIAGES: Second wife, Elizabeth, 1805. May have been married more than two
times, had 17 children. Henry remained in community of father, Dry Run, near
Crabbottom, now Blue Grass, VA. He may have inherited or otherwise acquired
his father's homestead because his descendants owned the property as late as
1971 per Amanda Crawford Arbogast Forbes research.

WILL: Pendleton Co. Court Records Will Book 4, pp.236-237, childrens names.
Copy of will in file also names wife, Elizabeth. Probated 4 Apr 1844, written
Feb. 1844. Son, Ephriam not in will, previously deeded 375ac to him in 1840.

Birth estimated from Pendleton Co., VA census of 1810,20,30 and 40.
See Pendleton (Highland) Co. History, by Morton
Name appears frequently in Pendleton Co. Court Records.
All information herein from Amanda Arbogast Forbes research, copy in file.
Henry and Peter were twin sons of Michael Arbogast.
Marriage bond for first wife, Sophia Wade, dated 17 Jan. 1792.

Henry married Elizabeth Seybert about 1805 in Pendleton Co., Va/Wv. Elizabeth was born about 1785 in , Augusta, Virginia, United States; died about 1844 in Pendleton Co., Va/Wv. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Source is Amanda Arbogast Forbes research and family group record with
references to Pendleton Co. census of 1810,20,30 and 40, Seybert Fam. Ms. and
Seybert Family by Charles Beverage in the Highland Recorder April 1991.
Elizabeth is in Henry's will and not on 1850 census. The area of Augusta Co.,
VA where Elizabeth was born later became Pendleton Co., VA and finally Highland
Co., VA.