Benedict Crouch

READ FROM THE LIVE SITE 31 Jul 2026, http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~crouch/genealogy/p3.htm, with controls on the same fetch: Crouch x245, Tennessee x11, Washington x14. "Elijah Crouch M, b. 1770, d. 1825. Father: John Crouch b. c 1727, d. c 1811. Mother: Sarah Barbury b. 1729, d. 1782. [grandfather] Joseph Crouch d. 1742. Birth*: Elijah Crouch was born in 1770 at VIRGINIA. He was the son of John Crouch and Sarah Barbury. Marriage*: Elijah Crouch married MARY ELLIS on 16 January 1792 at WASHINGTON, TENNESSEE. Death*: Elijah Crouch died in 1825 at McMINN, TENNESSEE. Family: Mary Ellis b. 1772" ⭐ FOUR OF THIS TREE'S VALUES MATCH THIS PAGE EXACTLY — Elijah 1770/1825, Mary Ellis b. 1772, Sarah Barbary b. 1729/30, and a John Crouch above him. That is a copy relationship, not a coincidence. ⛔ THE MECHANICAL CAUSE OF THE ERROR IS ONE WORD: 'Washington' was resolved to the WRONG STATE — Washington Co., PENNSYLVANIA instead of Washington Co., TENNESSEE. ⭐⭐ AND IT LOCATES THE FABRICATED JOINT: here SARAH BARBARY IS THE WIFE OF JOHN CROUCH (c.1727), an age-appropriate pair, and Elijah is THEIR son. This tree interpolates a 'Nathan Crouch b. 1750' between them and hands him a wife twenty years his senior. Independently, a search of the Somerset Co., Maryland records finds NO NATHAN AT ALL (control: 'Nathan' returns 1,066 hits in the same tax files). ⚠️ ELIJAH IS LISTED HERE WITH MARY ELLIS AND NO CHILDREN, and 'Benedict' appears nowhere on the site — so the Benedict->Elijah link was NOT inherited from this source; it was made separately, on a name. Mary Ellis is given NO DEATH DATE here, so this tree's d.1810 is unsourced, and a SECOND Mary Ellis (b. c.1765, wife of Edmund Bean) sits in the same compilation. ⚠️ THIS SOURCE IS A COMPILATION WITH NO CITATIONS. It proves what was copied. It does not prove the Tennessee facts.

1880 U.S. Census, Fallowfield Twp., Washington Co., Pennsylvania; NARA T9 roll 1201, p. 245A, Enumeration District 248; dwelling and family 10. Enumerated 1 June 1880 by Henry Carson. Household as written: "Crouch Benedict, W M 80, Farmer" - "Charity, W F 61, Wife, Keeping House" - "Crouch A. B. C., W M 26, Son, Farmer" [= [2733] Allison Benedict Crouch, b. 1853] - "Emma, W F 24, Daughter-in-law, Keeping house" - "Eunie, W F 3" - "Norwell, W M 7/12". ⛔ A FINISHED NEGATIVE, AND IT RETIRES A NAMED NEXT DOCUMENT. This sheet was ranked as the cheapest existing statement of where [114] Elijah Crouch was born, because the 1880 schedule records the birthplace of each person's father and mother. IT DOES NOT ANSWER IT: on Benedict's own line the Birthplace-of-Father and Birthplace-of-Mother cells are BLANK, and a bold later archival annotation reading "Fal" (for Fallowfield) is written across his Birthplace column. Do not re-run this document for Elijah's birthplace. ✪ WHAT IT DOES GIVE, on the row below his: "Charity, W F 61, Wife, Keeping House ... Penn | Pa | M.D" - so [2730] Charity (Wallace) Crouch was born in Pennsylvania, HER FATHER in Pennsylvania, and HER MOTHER IN MARYLAND. The 1893 Commemorative sketch (S388) calls Charity "a sister of his first wife" [113] Rebecca Wallace, so this is a first statement about the Wallace parents' origins - reached through the 1893 sisterhood claim, i.e. one compiled step removed, and therefore a lead rather than proof of Rebecca's parentage. ⚠️ Her age 61 implies b. abt 1819, against Find A Grave's data field (1812) and its transcribed inscription ("died Feb 6, 1909 in the 86 year of his age", implying abt 1823): three informants, three answers, unresolved. READ ON THE IMAGE by Claude, 5 Aug 2026, on a local crop of the full-resolution sheet (4148 x 4360) - the Ancestry viewer's zoom drift produced two different row alignments in succession and could not settle it. Images: ancestry/sources/1880-census-fallowfield-washington-co-pa-ED248-p245A-benedict-crouch-FULLPAGE-2026-08-05.jpg plus three crops. Register row L18.

p. 1310, right column: "ISAAC T. CROUCH. ... The gentleman of whom we write is a son of Benedict, and grandson of Elijah Crouch. The latter, who was of English descent, reared a family of four children, viz.: Elisha, Benedict, Stephen, and Mary, all of whom lived over fourscore years, and are now deceased. Benedict Crouch was born in June, 1800, near Jefferson, Greene Co., Penn., there passing his early youth. He learned the saddler's trade, which he followed a short time, and was then married to Rebecca, daughter of James Wallace. ... They were tenants on a farm for several years after their marriage, when he bought 288 acres near Bentleyville, Washington Co., Penn. Here he carried on an extensive farming business, and reared a large family of children, as follows: James, Sarah, John, William, Adah, Mary Ann, Thomas, Nathan, Hiram, Isaac T., Elizabeth, Bennett and" [continues p. 1313] "Nesbit". p. 1313, left column: "... William, then residing in Arkansas, felt that duty called him to defend his home and family rather than the nation; he therefore entered the Confederate army, and served throughout the conflict as captain of an Arkansas regiment. Benedict Crouch, for his second spouse, married Charity Wallace, a sister of his first wife, and the children by this union were S. Bentley, Hudson C. and Allison B. ... Isaac T. Crouch, son of Benedict and Rebecca Crouch, was born August 22, 1842, near Beallsville, Washington Co., Penn." READ ON THE PAGE IMAGES by Claude, 5 Aug 2026 - both folios and running heads verified. Images: ancestry/sources/commemorative-bio-washington-co-pa-1893-p1310-isaac-t-crouch-sketch-part1.jpg and ...-p1313-...-part2.jpg. Register row L16.