Ida Rees lists William as Henry’s third son. It turns out that is right but she has the wrong birth and death dates for him. She says he was born in 1823 so I wasn’t even sure it was him living with his father in 1850, since his age was given as 20. But it turns out, when he registered for the Civil War Draft, he indicated a birth of about 1820). He is designated H2b3. Kimberly Martz-Platt sent me the estate file for Henry Martz which shows that two of his sons predeceased him leaving children who were named and given a guardian. The sons who had died were not named, just their children.

One of the sons was John who I had known about for a long time but wasn’t convinced was Henry’s son but the names of his children were exactly right for what I knew about John. John had married Elizabeth Norris. The two other children, of the other deceased son, were named James and John. But it all came together when I found that living next door to Elizabeth Norris’ father in 1860 was William Martz with wife Sophia (Elizabeth’s sister) and one-year-old son James.

William grew up in Adams County, Indiana and his wife Sophia in neighboring Jay County. She was the daughter of Loyd Norris.

William was with his father in 1850 and by 1860 he had moved to Dayton, Wisconsin where his wife’s family had also moved.

William served in a Wisconsin unit and died in the Civil War. He is buried in a large military cemetery in Alexandria, Virginia.

We know she was Loyd’s daughter from her presence in his 1850 household in Indiana and then in 1860, she was married and living next to her father in Wisconsin. Her sister married the brother of her husband.