William Benedict Crouch

PROOF CLASS: FATHER = DIRECT (4 Sep 2026) - his 1936 certificate states 'William Crouch'; weight limited. MOTHER = ARGUMENT (Owen graded 6 Sep 2026) - the 1900 census 'married 47 years' dates it 1853, before his 1856 birth; summary below. AUDITED 4 Aug 2026 - HIS DEATH CERTIFICATE FOUND BY BROWSE AND READ ON THE IMAGE (register L3; absent from the Ancestry name index - Nacogdoches 1936 Jan-Mar image 70/106, cert 16566): William Benedict Crouch, 820 Mound St, Nacogdoches; widowed; b. July 10 1856 (exact match); d. March 11 1936 (exact match), influenza with hypertension/myocarditis; buried OAK GROVE Cemetery (corroborated by Find A Grave 67752470, with wife [109] Hallie d. 26 Dec 1935 at 67752062 - explaining 'widowed' - and daughter [48] at 67752540). FATHER stated: 'William Crouch' (no middle initial; birthplace 'Don't Know') - supports the [110] link, weight limited: informant 'C. Williams', apparently not family. CONFLICT recorded, not resolved: cert birthplace 'Little Rock, Ark' vs this tree's Arkadelphia, Clark Co. FINISHED NEGATIVE: the mother's maiden-name and birthplace fields are BLANK - this record can never source [111] Josephine Allen. Evidence: sources/txdc-1936-crouch-william-benedict-img70-*. *(was, 4 Sep 2026: MOTHER = UNDERDETERMINED - that certificate's mother fields are BLANK, per this note; the Advocate obituary is READ and names neither her parents nor her children, so it cannot evidence his maternity; reopens on an 1880 census placing him in Josephine's household.)* REGRADED 6 Sep 2026. * THE 1880 ROUTE IS SPENT, MEASURED ON THE IMAGE - AND THIS IS THE SECOND OF THIS PERSON'S NAMED UPGRADES TO BE FOUND SPENT (the first was the Advocate obituary, K457). In 1880 he was 23, married, and enumerated in his MOTHER-IN-LAW'S household at Texarkana as SON-IN-LAW (ED 194 p.112C dwelling 563 family 437) - not in Josephine's. That is the same citation already attached to him and to [109]; they share a page because they shared a household. * WHAT CLOSES IT, from records already cited: 1900 U.S. census, Decatur, Wise Co., Texas, dwelling 23 family 24 (coll. 7602 rec. 44605756) - Edward Baumgartner 39 Head; LIZZIE C. BAUMGARTNER 39 Wife; WILLIAM CROUCH 69 FATHER-IN-LAW b. Sep 1830 Pa., spouse Josephine Crouch, MARRIAGE YEAR 1853, YEARS MARRIED 47; JOSEPHINE CROUCH 65 MOTHER-IN-LAW. One continuous marriage from 1853 covers his 10 Jul 1856 birth, so no other wife could have borne him. The same record states Josephine to be LIZZIE's mother, and Lizzie is [883], b. Aug 1860 Arkadelphia, d. Jan 1949 at Decatur - where [110] d. 1902 and [111] d. 1909. And 1880 Arkadelphia (coll. 6742 rec. 4618939/4618735) states W. T. Crouch 49 HEAD, JOSE CROUCH 47 WIFE b. MARYLAND, Mary E. 19 Daughter. * CONFLICT NAMED AND RESOLVED: the 1880 Texarkana sheet gives his birthplace, his father's and his MOTHER'S all as 'Pennsylvania'. Josephine's own 1880 entry states MARYLAND, and that sheet's claim that HE was born in Pennsylvania is independently false - he was born at Arkadelphia. The informant wrote one state three times; the column does not bear on the question. Full argument: proof-summary-108-crouch-mother-2026-09-06.md. Register K474.