Elijah Crouch

PROOF CLASS: PARENTS = REFUTED, 12 Sep 2026 - THE LINK TO F75 IS CUT. Nathan Crouch of Cecil Co., Maryland had SEVEN children by the filed distribution of his own estate, and NO ELIJAH is among them. This note carries the verdict because the relationship row no longer exists to carry it. ⛔ SUPERSEDES this note's 31 Jul 2026 flags of 3=DISPUTED, and it does so on the condition THAT NOTE ITSELF NAMED: it said the flags were 3 rather than 2 "because the case rests on a COMPILED WEBSITE plus census ABSENCES, not on a primary record naming someone else." That primary record has now been read. ★ THE RECORD: Orphans' Court of Cecil County, Maryland, JUNE TERM 1838 - the final account of the estate of Nathan Crouch, exhibited by JOHN F. CROUCH his administrator, the distribution of the balance struck and entered; recorded 19 Jun 1838, test Henry D. Miller, Register of Wills. The court names every distributee: Amelia, wife of John Scott; Mary, wife of Sampson Lum; the THREE CHILDREN of MARGARET, a daughter who married Joshua Hyland and died before her father; Rosanne, wife of John George; the TWO CHILDREN of RACHEL, a daughter who married Humphry Riddle and died before her father; JOHN F. CROUCH, "son"; and Elizabeth, wife of Joshua Hyland. SEVEN children - ONE SON AND SIX DAUGHTERS. ★ THE LIST IS PROVABLY COMPLETE BY ARITHMETIC, which matters because the OCR is poor: the share is $17.48 1/2 and the balance $122.39 1/2, and 122.395 divided by 17.485 is 7.000 exactly (six shares would be 104.91, eight would be 139.88). Seven shares, seven entries written out; nothing was lost to the OCR. ⛔ WHY THIS REFUTES RATHER THAN MERELY FAILING TO SUPPORT: a distribution in intestacy is a closed list AND IT REPRESENTS THE DEAD. The court named both daughters who had predeceased their father and passed their shares to their children per stirpes. This tree has Elijah dying in 1825 leaving NINE children, so had he been Nathan's son the 1838 court was bound to name him exactly as it named Margaret and Rachel, and his nine children would have taken his seventh. He is absent, and so is any issue of his. ◎ THE "WRONG NATHAN" TEST WAS RUN AND DID NOT SAVE THE LINK: across 95 verified Cecil Co. records naming him, Nathan Crouch appears ALIVE as appraiser, surety and witness continuously from 1796 to 1834, and is described as DECEASED only in 1836, 1837 and 1838. There is no second Nathan Crouch estate in the county, and this tree's "d. 1815 Pennsylvania" has no documentary footprint at all. ⭐ STILL TRUE FROM 31 JUL 2026 AND PRESERVED HERE: HE IS A TENNESSEE MAN, NOT A PENNSYLVANIA ONE. The compiled source this tree's data was copied from - 'Crouch and related Families from Washington County, TN' - states born 1770 in VIRGINIA, married MARY ELLIS 16 Jan 1792 at WASHINGTON, TENNESSEE, died 1825. THE ERROR IS ONE WORD: 'Washington' resolved to the wrong STATE. ⚠ AND THAT SAME SOURCE NAMES HIS FATHER AS JOHN CROUCH (c.1727) AND SARAH BARBURY - not Nathan - so the F75 attachment contradicted the only source ever cited for it. ⚠ His 'Massachusetts' birthplace remains an unsupported third-hand artifact: the 1790 census of Massachusetts holds five Crouch heads in the whole Commonwealth and no Elijah. Treat it as a data artifact, NOT a lead. ⛔ WHAT WAS AND WAS NOT DONE: ONE ChildTable row was deleted. NOBODY WAS DELETED. [115] Nathan Crouch, [3207] Sarah Barbary, [116] John Crouch, [117] Elizabeth Evans, [119] Anne Toadvine and the Somerset Co. floor all remain in this database as a real and well-documented family - they are simply not ancestors of this tree. Documented is not the same as ours. ☞ WHAT WOULD REOPEN IT: a Cecil Co. record naming an Elijah Crouch as Nathan's son, or evidence that the 1838 distribution is not this Nathan's. ⚠ RESOLVED 12 Sep 2026, LATER THE SAME DAY: this person record CONFLATED the documented Tennessee Elijah with the name-only Pennsylvania man whom [112] Benedict's son named as his grandfather in 1893, and the repair chosen was NOT to split him but to DETACH [112]. Benedict is no longer a child of F74. No new Pennsylvania Elijah was created - FamilySearch returns zero records of one in any primary series in that county - because adding a person to hold an informant's name is the move that produced this graft. So THIS person record is now, and only, the TENNESSEE Elijah: married Mary Ellis in Washington Co., Tennessee in 1792, buried at Sinking Creek Baptist Church Cemetery, Carter Co., Tennessee. ⚠ The eight remaining children of F74 are still a geographic impossibility (Tennessee 1792-95, Maryland 1797-1806, Pennsylvania 1800-02, Illinois 1821) and eight of nine carry ZERO citations - F74 is left flagged, NOT dismantled, because those people are no longer in this tree's line and deleting them would destroy what may be somebody's correct work. Register K651. Registers K644-K648. Evidence: ancestry/proof-summary-114-crouch-parents-2026-09-12.md ADDENDUM F and ancestry/sources/crouch-nathan-cecil-distribution-1838-2026-09-12/NOTES.md.