GEORGE W. CROUCH
George W. Crouch was born in Campbell county, Virginia, June 1, 1831. He is a son of Lewis and Matilda (Hogan) Crouch, natives of Virginia, where they resided until their decease. Mr. Crouch was married in Virginia, August 24, 1853, to Mary Blankinshift, a native of that State. In 1854, they removed to Indiana and remained until 1863. In that year they came to Cass county, and settled upon a farm in the southeast quarter of section 24, Brighton township. Upon this place was a small log house, containing one room, and twenty-five acres broken. At that time the country in this vicinity was very new, and thinly populated, the only dwelling in sight of his house being the cabin of James Harris. Indians were plenty, and the greater part of the land was unbroken prairie. Mr. Crouch paid for his land, thirteen dollars per acre, with a crop on. He came here with but little means, but is now in prosperous circumstances. He has a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres, all improved, with substantial buildings, and a good grove, a part of which was planted by himself. He is engaged in general farming. Mrs. Crouch died in this county and he was again married, September 18, 1870 to Mary Johnson, a native of Virginia, and daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Johnson. Mr. Crouch had, by his first marriage, four children...Alice, now the wife of S. Allen, and living in Arkansas; Roland, living in Cass county; Charles L., living at home, and Sarah C., who died October 19, 1879.
Transcribed by Gloria Goltiani from "History of Cass County, Iowa. Together With Sketches of its Towns, Villages and Townships, Educational, Civil, Military and Political History: Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Old Settlers and Representative Citizens." Springfield, Ill.: Continental Historical Company, 1884, pg. 590.
