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The Family Tree draws on information from Mrs. L.M. Crouch, the Rev. Thomas
Hiter Crouch, Velma Hudson, M.V.K. Bullock, Pete Nance, Joy Adams, Warren
Crouch, Mac A. Smith, Glenn Crouch, Marcia Kinder Oresky, Dorothy Mayhugh,
Janet Broyles, Mrs. D. D. Hooker, Millard Crouch, Virginia Porter, Ann Mary
Hutton, Farris Glen Collier, Lucille Keefauver, Mrs. L.W. Maynard, and Doris
Morris.
Nance information: From Thomas King and Susan Ann Sharp Family, by
A.S. Rogers and Vivian King Bullock. Information assembled by or under direction
of Pete Nance
(Extract from a letter to Hal Rounds:)
I will try to tell you what sources I used that document your ancestry.
My family tells me that Mary Crouch (Mrs. L.M. Crouch, Jr.), of Harrisonville,
Missouri, amassed the most complete collection of Crouch genealogy, with
an emphasis on primary sources. She died around 1991 and gave her collection
to the public library in Harrisonville. She was a very scrupulous genealogist
who always tried to get the best available proof, and didn't treat fanciful
stories as fact, the way so many genealogists used to.
Much information is in the History of Washington County, Tennessee 1988.
My information on the children and grandchildren of Jesse Crouch mostly
comes from a list my great-great-grandfather, the Rev. Thomas Hiter Crouch,
made.
Other information about Jesse Crouch descendants, and about the Nance ancestors
going back to William Nance of Brunswick County, Virginia, comes from The
Nance Register by Pete Nance. (I think his actual name was Woodrow or something
like that). The information about earlier Nances comes from Thomas King
and Susan Ann Sharp Family History, by Rogers and Bullock. I have only seen
a xeroxed page from that book. I see that Glen Collier, one of the other
article authors in the History of Washington County, also cites it. I have
been told that, after Pete Nance published the Nance Register, he either
went to England to do research or paid Debrett's or other professional genealogists
to do it, or perhaps both.
Information about Jesse Crouch's parents was mostly put together in the
1960s by Mary Crouch, I think. She got some information from my father,
Richard Crouch, his grandfather Ralph Waldo Crouch, Sr., Mrs. Velma Hudson
of Newport, Tennessee (recently deceased), and probably from hundreds of
other sources. I think Mrs. Hudson is where she learned Jesse Crouch's mother's
maiden name from, and I have been meaning to write Mrs. Hudson's daughters
to see if they know how she knew it. (It was Barbary, Barbee, Bradbury,
and/or something else that sounded like that. There was also a Bradberry
who married another John Crouch in Henry Co., Virginia at a time when our
family was also there, but I don't think the two families were closely related.)
Anyhow, we believe her name was Sarah, and there is a gravestone marked
"Sarah Crouch 1782" at the Buffalo Ridge Baptist Church near Johnson
City, Tenn., which Jesse attended. (My father once said there was a lot
of information about the family and its doings in the Minutes of that church,
which are thought to be in the Tennessee State Library and Archives on microfilm.)
Jesse's father John Crouch, Sr. is buried further West in Tazewell, Tennessee.
After Sarah's death he married Elizabeth, the widow of the Rev. Cloud Lane.
He may have also married a Mrs. Fuller.
In the 1980s my aunt Sophia Minor had Debrett's investigate John Crouch,
Sr.'s ancestry, and they established that his father was Joseph Crouch,
a traveling schoolteacher and tutor, and his mother was Ann, probably Ann
Reeds. We are almost certain that Joseph was the son of a John Crouch who
bought land in King George Co., Virginia in 1709. That John Crouch's family,
and Joseph Crouch's family, were both intimately associated with the Brent
and Bronaugh families (they witnessed each other's wills and apprenticed
each other's children) and they lived in the same places. Also, there is
a great resemblance between members of the two families, especially among
the older or recently-deceased members, and even more so among photographs
of ancestors. Some of that family has been in Fairfax County, Virginia,
for about 250 years, and that is how we know them.
Another source of material about Jesse Crouch descendants was Glenn Crouch
of Omaha. I think he is not related to us, but he has chosen to serve as
a clearinghouse for all Crouch genealogists. For a few years he published
the voluminous Crouch Family Researcher, and I think that now he's doing
the same thing on the Internet. He has all sorts of computer things that
can produce descendant charts for many different Couch ancestors upon request.
I think that in the Researcher he published something your grandfather wrote,
in the nature of autobiography or genealogy. He has also published cemetery
inventories, including many from the Johnson City, Tenn. area.
Most of our knowledge of the Crouches in Northern Virginia in the early
18th Century comes from books of abstracts of Stafford County and King George
County court records, deeds and wills, recently edited and published by
some people named Sparacio. Some information also comes from my uncle Warren
Crouch's research in the records at the Henry County, Virginia, court house.
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