Crouch, James 1866-1944

CROUCH, SLACK

Posted By: Lorelei Rusco (email)
Date: 5/7/2011 at 13:33:48

Crouch, James –
James, son of Mary Ellen and Silas Crouch was born in Henry County, Illinois on July 9, 1866 and passed away from this life at the Municipal hospital, Clarinda, Ia. on December 17, 1944 at the age of 78 years.

He had been seriously ill for over a month at the hospital but through it all he was cheerful and uncomplaining. After his operation, he seemed well on the road to recovery when other complications arose that he was unable to overcome.

Mr. Crouch was one of a family of 9 children of whom but one sister, Ella Main of Redding, Ia. and three brothers, John of Omaha, Nebr., Lester of Cambridge, Ill. and George of Osawatomie, Kansas remain.

He spent his early life on a farm in Illinois, and with his family attended the Episcopal church there. He was united in marriage with Edith Rae Slack on March 1, 1894 at Cambridge.
In 1899 they moved to Iowa, settling for a few years near Villisca. In the spring of 1908 they moved to the Blue Grove community where they resided until moving to Lenox March 1, 1920. Here, on Feb. 20th, 1921, his loving wife passed away after a lingering illness.

They were the parents of six children, one of them, Flossie Agnes, preceding them in death on Dec. 23, 1918. Surviving are two sons, Wesley James of Lenox and Frank McKinley of Frazee, Minn.; three daughters, Mrs. Mae Donaldson of Denton, Montana, Mrs. Bessie Stoner of Valego, Calif.; and Mrs. Ethel Quinn of Lenox, with whom he made his home. He also leaves 8 grandchildren and many other relatives and friends, who will sadly miss him.

Funeral rites were conducted by Rev. E. F. Hagee Wednesday afternoon in the Arnold Funeral Chapel and burial was in Lenox cemetery.
Lenox Time Table, Lenox, Iowa, Thursday, December 28, 1944