Notes:

From Amanda Arbogast Forbes family group record 359. Battery D, 1st Rgt.,
WV Arty., Union Army during Civil War.

About letter:

[Notes:
George Washington Arbogast (b. 15 Mar 1840, d. 24 Jun 1911), son of Solomon Arbogast and Nancy Nottingham.
Mary Elizabeth Arbogast Sutton (b. 7 Mar 1843, d. 10 Jan 1914), daughter of Adam Arbogast and Margaret Clarissa Sutton.
Solomon Arbogast and Adam Arbogast were brothers.
Mentioned in the letter are:
Captain Ewing = Captain Chatham T. Ewing, Battery G, 1st Regiment West Virginia Light Artillery
Charles = I assume to G.W. Arbogast?s brother, Charles Wesley Arbogast (b. 17 Dec 1841, d. 11 Aug 1864 in Andersonville Prison)
Xerox copy of letter given to Jo Lori Drake by Ivan Sutton. Notes: George Washington Arbogast (b. 15 Mar 1840, d. 24 Jun 1911), son of Solomon Arbogast and Nancy Nottingham. Mary Elizabeth Arbogast Sutton (b. 7 Mar 1843, d. 10 Jan 1914), daughter of Adam Arbogast and Margaret Clarissa Sutton. Solomon Arbogast and Adam Arbogast were brothers. Mentioned in the letter are: Captain Ewing = Captain Chatham T. Ewing, Battery G, 1st Regiment West Virginia Light Artillery Charles = I assume to G.W. Arbogast?s brother, Charles Wesley Arbogast (b. 17 Dec 1841, d. 11 Aug 1864 in Andersonville Prison).
Poca refers to Pocahontas County, West Virginia, where both G.W. and Mary ?Lisa? lived.
The song at the end is ?Star of Columbia? by Harry Bluff, H. De Marsan, Publisher, ... No. 38 Chatham Street, N. Y.
STAR OF COLUMBIA.
Star of Columbia, fair as the morn,
Unsullied by crime, and in Liberty born,
The Giant of Nations, of Freedom and Art:
The Mirror of Nature, the Bold, Honest Heart!
The Arts fly for favor to this happy land,
From Europe?s famed cities to thy fostering hand:
Here find they a favor to aid and to grace,
And are met like a parent, with smiles on thy face.
Here Genius has vent, here the mind's free to roam,
And the soil to the stranger is turned a home;
No longer depressed by fashion?s dull brain,
He lives, and he feels like a Giant again! ]

George married Sarah Elizabeth Arbogast on 10 Sep 1867 in Anna Arbogast, Residence, Pocahontas Co., Wv. Sarah was born on 8 Mar 1841 in Pocahontas Co., Va/Wv; died on 11 Nov 1900 in , Pocahontas , West Virginia, United States; was buried in Arbogast Cem, Glade Hill, Pocahontas Co., Wv. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henry Franklin Arbogast was born on 21 Jul 1868 in Pocahontas Co., Wv; died on 1 Jul 1949 in , Pocahontas , West Virginia, United States; was buried in Ruckman Cemetery, Mill Point, Pocahontas Co., Wv.
2. William Averill Arbogast was born on 12 Nov 1869 in Pocahontas Co., Wv; died on 17 Feb 1935 in , Pocahontas , West Virginia, United States; was buried in Wesley Chapel Cm, Dunmore, Pocahontas Co., Wv.
3. Ida Law Bertie Arbogast was born on 23 Nov 1871 in Pocahontas Co., Wv; died on 13 May 1892 in , Pocahontas , West Virginia, United States; was buried in Arbogast Cem, Glade Hill, Pocahontas Co., Wv.
4. Fannie Floretta Arbogast was born on 15 May 1873 in Pocahontas Co., Wv; died on 3 Feb 1889 in , Pocahontas , West Virginia, United States; was buried in Arbogast Cem, Glade Hill, Pocahontas Co., Wv.
5. Vinnie Ann Arbogast was born in Mar 1877 in Pocahontas Co., Wv; and died.
6. Walter Aldine Arbogast was born on 14 Mar 1879 in , Pocahontas , West Virginia, United States; died on 16 Jul 1976 in , Pocahontas , West Virginia, United States; was buried in Arbovale Cemetery, Arbovale, Pocahontas, WV, USA.
7. Ava Mintie Arbogast was born on 4 Apr 1881 in Pocahontas Co., Wv; and died.

Notes:

From family records of Merle Arbogast Chorba of New Vernon, New Jersey.

Ref: WBH; grandson Walter Arbogast (son of George) says that he died 13 Mar
1857. Grandson George Mervin Sharp gave names, spouses, birthdates, and some
death dates of children in August 1938; his information was from his mother
Nancy Elizabeth's handwritten notes.

Ref: Jim and Rita Wooddell records, January 1994, gave details about places of
birth, death, and burial for this family. Neither Solomon's nor Nancy's grave
is marked.

Solomon married Nancy Nottingham on 16 Apr 1831 in Pocahontas Co., Va. Nancy was born on 14 Feb 1808 in Pocahontas Co., Va/Wv; died on 20 Dec 1877 in Pocahontas Co., Va/Wv; was buried in Homeplace, Glade Hill, Pocahontas Co., Wv. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

rom family records of Merle Arbogast Chorba of New Vernon, New Jersey,
daughter of Dr. Hoyt Bailey Arbogast. Nancy is the daughter of William and
Mary (Arbogast) Nottingham and first cousin of her husband.

Additional information from Mary E. Skelton, a descendant, of Jamestown, PA,
provides day and month of birth, and date of death. Married by Benjamin
Tallman in Pocahontas County.

Same person as #9003.

Notes:

From Amanda Arbogast Forbes record A-3, copy in file. Death was sometime
during Mar-Jun 1830. Will recorded in Will Book 1, p. 217, Pocahontas Co.
All children except Frances named in will.

Ref: WBH; homeplace in the Glade Hill area owned successively by son Henry, then
Clark and Margaret (Arbogast) Dilley, then a Galford, then ? (FYD: perhaps a
Shinaberry), then (as of June 1953) Harry Moore.

Benjamin married Frances Mullens about 1804. Frances was born in 1790; died in 1857 in , Pocahontas , West Virginia, United States; was buried in Homeplace, Glade Hill, Pocahontas Co., Wv. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

From Amanda Arbogast Forbes record A-3, copy in file. Frances was from
Westmoreland Co., VA. Year of death noted from Wilma Harper.

WBH: Tradition is that Frances came to Pocahontas to visit the John Sutton
family. (John Sutton was from Westmoreland Co.)

Other Events:

• Military: American Revolution

Notes:

See Virginia Militia in the Revolutionary War, by McAllister, page 235. Adam
received pension for service as Virginia Militiaman, living 1835. Also page 19,
Indian Spy, 1776 or 1777; page 22, Pvt., Capt. Peter Hull's Co. during Yorktown
Campaign, 1781; and, page 148, Muster Roll of that Company in 1779.

See Pocahontas Co. History, by Price. Adam relocated to headwaters of the
Greenbrier River, now Pocahontas Co., WV, in 1796. Several pages devoted to
Adam and his family.

Birth 1759/60 from Rev. War Pension Applications. Marriage and death date
from A. Arbogast Forbes Papers in file. Will recorded in Pocahontas Co. Will
Book 3, page 4, copy in file. Jacob Hull Arbogast is named as son in all
histories but was not in will. Will probated in June 1852 term of Court,
actual date of death unknown. PHOTO OF TOMBSTONE IN FILE INDICATES 1760 BIRTH.

Amanda Arbogast Forbes (AAF) research includes papers of Wilma Harper, 1850 and
1880 Census of Pendleton County, Court Records and County histories. AAF
Record "A".

Ref: WBH; tombstone marked 1760-1861 by WBH in about 1940. She later said that
1861 was her error. Granddaughter Hulda (Arbogast) Yeager said that he
died before she was born (in 1858). Was married near Hevener's Store.
Received second eyesight before he died accoding to legend.

Drafted and marched under Captain John McCoy and Lt. Joesph Gwin to West's Fort on West Fork of Monogahela, then down the river to Lowther's Fort, then lower yet to Nutter's Fort where he remained much of the three months...... Then finally to Coontie's Fort where troops were called in consequence of the Indians killing a white woman while she was spreading hemp in a field...... Volunteered 1778 as Indian Spy under same Captain and marched on to Warm Springs, whence he, together with George Hull, John Gum and Conrad Fleisher were ordered to Crabbottom to guard that locality and remained there the rest of his time....... At another time he marched from his home (now Highland) across the Greenbrier River to head of Seneca in pursuit of Indians.

Adam married Margaret "Peggy" Hull about 1778 in Crabbottom Sect., Augusta Co., Va. Margaret (daughter of Thomas Peter Hull and Susannah Margaretha Dieffenbach) was born in 1757 in Shenandoah Valley, Augusta Co., Va; died on 15 Jan 1820 in Pocahontas Co., Va/Wv; was buried in Yeager/Arbogast, Cem., Bartow, Pocahontas Co., wv. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Information from Amanda Arbogast Forbes research and papers in file includes
place of birth, date and place of death, where buried and parents.

Ref: Cleek 374

Differing birth/death info:

Margaret Hull was born 1757 in Augusta County, which is now Highland and died 1/15/1820 in Traveler's Repose, Bath Co. Her parents were Thomas Peter Hull (Hohl) born 1706 in Germany and died 1776 in Augusta Co and Susannah Margaretha Dieffenbach born Oct. 1725 in Lancaster, Pa and died abt 1776 in Augusta Co, Va , They were married 11/25/1750 in the Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa. He was a widower who had married in Germany and was a miller on the Susquehanna River before marrying Susannah.