The FamilyCrouch

Elijah Crouch

1770–c. 1825

Sarah Barbary 1730–1782Nathan Crouch 1750–1815Elizabeth Evans c. 1724–1803John Crouch 1720–Anne Toadvine 1676–1749John Crouch 1692–Nicholas Toadvine –1713MARY c. 1680–JOHN CROUCH I c. 1675–
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Life

Born
1770 · Massachusetts
Died
about 1825 · Washington Co., Pennsylvania

Parents

FatherNathan Crouch (1750–1815)⚠ father link disputed
MotherSarah Barbary (1730–1782)⚠ mother link disputed

Marriage & children

SpouseMary Ellis (1772–1810) m. 16 Jan 1792 · Washington, Tennessee, USA
William E. Crouch (1792–1863)
Elizabeth Crouch (1795–c. 1825)
Samuel W Crouch (c. 1797–1855)
Nathan Crouch (1798–1865)
Benedict Crouch (1800–1882)
Elisha Crouch (1802–1883)
Stephen Crouch (c. 1806–c. 1859)
Joseph E. Crouch (1821–1907)

Timeline

Records behind this page

Unnamed source
Elijah Crouch (1770-1825) of Washington and McMinn Cos., TENNESSEE — the page this tree's gens 7-8 were copied from (read from the live site, controls run)
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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.

Research notes

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Research note · 31 Jul 2026
Audited 31 Jul 2026 — his first. ⛔ 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, son of John Crouch (c.1727) and Sarah Barbury (1729-1782); married MARY ELLIS 16 Jan 1792 at WASHINGTON, TENNESSEE; died 1825 at McMINN, TENNESSEE. ⛔ THE ERROR IS ONE WORD: 'Washington' resolved to the wrong STATE. ⭐ CONFIRMED FROM THE OTHER SIDE: there is NO Elijah Crouch in Washington Co., PENNSYLVANIA in 1810 — two independent transcriptions of that census agree across 5,601 head-of-household rows, with controls run — and he would have been 40 and a head of household. ⚠️ HIS 'MASSACHUSETTS' BIRTHPLACE IS UNSUPPORTED AND IS NOT EVEN THIS GRAFT'S FAULT: the 1790 census of Massachusetts holds FIVE Crouch/Croutch heads in the entire Commonwealth and no Elijah, and the source tree says VIRGINIA. Treat it as a third-hand data artifact, NOT a lead — the field was left unchanged only so the error stays visible. ⚠️ He is listed in that source with Mary Ellis and NO CHILDREN, and 'Benedict' appears nowhere on the site, so the link down to [112] was made separately on the strength of a name. Memo: ancestry/crouch-branch-research.md. ⛔ NOTHING WAS DELETED AND NO LINK WAS CUT: a negative removes support, it does not supply a replacement. Flags are 3=DISPUTED rather than 2=disproven because the case rests on a COMPILED WEBSITE plus census ABSENCES, not on a primary record naming someone else.

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