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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Jacob Crouch: Birth: 28 DEC 1834 in Randolph Co., VA. Death: 19 DEC 1909

  2. Lydia Ann Crouch: Birth: 14 AUG 1836 in Randolph Co., VA. Death: ABT 1891

  3. William Crouch: Birth: 1 JUL 1838 in Randolph Co., VA. Death: 18 DEC 1852

  4. Martha Crouch: Birth: 19 OCT 1840 in Randolph Co., VA. Death: 23 FEB 1914

  5. Sarah Jane Crouch: Birth: 5 SEP 1842 in Randolph Co., VA. Death: 13 DEC 1930 in Newton, Jasper Co., IA


Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Jemima Crouch: Birth: 3 SEP 1845. Death: DEC 1935

  2. Mary Elizabeth Crouch: Birth: 28 APR 1847. Death: 23 DEC 1852

  3. Lucretia Crouch: Birth: 12 MAR 1850. Death: 2 JAN 1931

  4. Eliza Crouch: Birth: 10 OCT 1852. Death: 4 MAY 1934

  5. Abraham Crouch: Birth: 13 MAY 1857. Death: 12 DEC 1932

  6. John Crouch: Birth: 26 APR 1860 in Randolph Co., VA.

  7. William Crouch: Birth: 1 MAY 1863 in Randolph Co., VA.


Notes
a. Note:   Hi there, sorry for the delay in getting back to you, my step father has been in the hospital and I haven't had the time to do much research lately. John Jacob's father was Jacob Crouch, born 1776, Randolph County Va/WV, he was the son of Andrew Crouch and Judith Westfall, and grandson of John Crouch Sr. and Mary? I am not sure if you have ever come across the interview with David Crouch in Draper's Manuscripts Collection, I will send you a link to an online version of it just in case, but he briefly talks about his father and his family before he was born, everywhere he mentions in the interview that his father and family lived, court and land records can be found for them, from Augusta County, Va, to what is present day Rowan County NC, at the Yadkin River, at the mouth of the Reedy Creek, this was about the time of General Braddock's defeat, when many of the settlers retreated from the Va frontier to safer ground. John Sr. and his family moved back to Va. about 1766, to present day Tucker County, WV, near Blackmon Flats, there is a roadside historical marker in Parsons, the county seat, which states John Crouch Pioneer Settler, the first to settle here in 1766, and who had "tomahawk rights" John Sr. only stayed in this area for 4 years before moving to Tygarts Valley, present day Randolph County, WV and settling on 400 acres of land which fell on both sides of the Tygart Valley River, just below the present day location of Mill Creek. Earlier histories had thought at the time the other Crouch's in Tygarts Valley were in fact brothers of John Sr., but records and documents now have proven otherwise, his sons Andrew, [the father of Jacob Crouch] and his wife Judith Westfall, son Joseph and wife Elizabeth Warwich, both lived where present day Huttonsville is located, son John Crouch Jr., who married Sarah Nelson, and daughter Elizabeth, married to Henry Delay, lived at present day Valley Bend.
 John Sr.'s daughter Sarah, married John Ryan, and they settled in Mercer County, Kentucky, his son David, married Elizabeth Cassidy. His son Jonathon, died in 1786, and was unmarried, and Jacob's father, Andrew, died in 1780, at the age of 30.
 John Sr. and his childrens families remained here for the following 17 years, then beginning with Henry Delay, and wife Elizabeth, then followed first by John Sr. his wife, and son David and his wife to Bourbon County Kentucky, followed later by his 2 sons John Jr. and Joseph. The only Crouch family left in Tygarts Valley was Judith, widow of Andrew, and mother to your Jacob Crouch. Jacob had 2 brothers, Major John Crouch, and Andrew Crouch, and 1 sister named Elizabeth, all of whom married and settled in Tygarts Valley. Jacob married Jane Smith, daughter of Jonathon Smith and Jane Currence, they were the parents of John Jacob. and his brothers William, Andrew, Smith, Currence. and sisters Lydia, Judith, Julie Ann, Sarah, Mary Jane and Angeline. From census records you can see that Jacob and his family and the families of his children, stayed in Randolph County, Va, until shortly after the 1850 census for Randolph County, then they left for Iowa.
  This agrees with another descendant of Jacob's family, whose family records, which have been passed down throughout the years say that they all left Tygart Valley after 1850, and that Jacob died in 1860, which is when I found his widow Jane, living at the home of her son John Jacob. I can't tell you what became of the whole family, I do know that son Smith Crouch and Jacob had an arguement about something and that Smith moved back to Randolph County WV, where he was working as a civilian [during the Civil War] and was one of many who was taken prisoner by the Union soldiers and sent to Fort Delaware, where he later died, information in history books state he died from drinking poison water.
 Randy Stalnaker


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