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.

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Research note · 31 Jul 2026

Audited 31 Jul 2026 — her first. ⚠️ HER DEATH DATE IS UNSOURCED AND LOAD-BEARING, WHICH IS A BAD COMBINATION. The compiled Tennessee source this tree copied gives her b. 1772 Virginia, married Elijah Crouch 16 Jan 1792 at Washington, TENNESSEE — and NO DEATH DATE AT ALL. This tree's 'd. 1810' therefore comes from somewhere else and is uncited. ⛔ THAT MATTERS BECAUSE IT MANUFACTURED AN AUDIT FINDING: [3209] Joseph E. Crouch (1821-1907) is recorded as her son, i.e. born 11 years after she died, which was read as the signature of a MISSING SECOND WIFE. On this evidence it is likelier an artifact of the graft plus a borrowed death date than a real missing woman. RECLASSIFIED: a data-integrity question, not an ancestor hunt — and chasing a remarriage in Washington Co., PENNSYLVANIA is chasing a man who was never there. ⚠️ CONFLATION RISK: the same small compilation carries a SECOND Mary Ellis, b. c.1765, d. after 1839, wife of Edmund Bean. 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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