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Subject: Re: [COUCH] COUCH, GEORGE, ADAIR, MILAM, McSPADDEN
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 09:53:00 EDT


I would love to see whaat you guys have on Jerimiah Couch and his family. I
too am a descendant. I have been to the website that Bill has and it is
wonderful. I am only 37 and very interested in all this have been interested
since I was 13.

Khandi





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Cousin Dr Richard,

How delightful to hear from you. I have been continually searching for our
Couch ancestors and trying to determine exactly when they came to this
country. One Thomas Crouch or Couch lived in Jamestown and arrived there
earlier than 1623 when he was recorded in the Jamestown census there. Most
refer to him as Crouch. More recently, I have discovered another Thomas
Couch. This Thomas Couch was described thusly: "Aug 29, Sept 1, 1684
Shippers by the Charles of Plymouth, Mr. Edward Blagg, bound from Plymouth
for Virginia...(PRO:E190/1048/8)". This Thomas sounds promising.

In another line I have been tracing from my Thomas & Elizabeth Couch
(Brunswick County, VA ca 1720) their son Thomas Couch Jr and wife Mary Ann
of Orange County, NC and Enoree, SC we find a son named Drury. He is the
ancestor of the most noted Couch I have run across, Harvey Couch, of
Arkansas.
In he Biograpy of Harvey Couch by Wilson (1947) Harvey's gg grandfather
William Couch says his Couch family was in new england in 1642 and in
Virginia by 1700s. I do not know his source but if correct then we may be
somehow related to the Couch family who arrived in Conneticut around 1740.
This family has a lots of Thomas Couches. I have a little history of this
CT Couch family in my book and I have been trying to link up with them
somehow. No success as yet.

Good luck on your new teaching year. I have now been retired seven years and
retirement is the best job I ever had. No one absolutely NO ONE is around
telling you what to do, complaining and provoking any stress. It is simply
wonderful. Try it you will like it.

Please keep in touch and keep me informed if you find any connections. I
just yesterday told a woman from Kentucky that your family from Buckingham
County, VA was probably the first Couch family in Kentucky. Was I correct
about that (Thomas John)?

Robert H. Couch another 65 year old Auburn Couch man.
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>From: "Bill & Diane Jones" <>
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>Subject: Re: [COUCH] COUCH, GEORGE, ADAIR, MILAM, McSPADDEN
>Date: Mon, Aug 5, 2002, 4:37 PM
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>I would be interested in hearing more about this line as well since I am
>also a descendent of Jeremiah.
>
>Diane (Couch) Jones
>Utica, Michigan
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>Subject: Re: [COUCH] COUCH, GEORGE, ADAIR, MILAM, McSPADDEN
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>> Bob,
>> I read with interest your response to Alfred Fatica concerning your
>> Thomas Couch ancestors. Based upon you finding a couple of Thomas Couches
>in
>> the Jamestown settlement records, I am speculating both yours and my Couch
>> lines probably originated with one or both these Thomas Couches you found
>in
>> the Jamestown records. My ggg Jeremiah Sr. had brothers named Thomas John
>> and another recorded as John Thomas. There was something special about
>the
>> name Thomas for our early ancestors it seems. Couches --- probably most
>> familes --- were fond of naming children after grandparent names and/or
>> uncles.
>> I'm thinking my ggg Jeremiah is a descendent of one or the other of
>> these Jamestown Thomas Couches. I think these Jamestown Couches lived in
>the
>> Jamestown/Williamsburg area until such time as they began to migrate
>westward
>> (southward and westward for your ancestors) as opportunities arose that
>> suited their ideas and dreams. In my case, I think Captain John was a
>> riverboat captain who found land in Buckingham County that he and brother
>> James acquired to settle on in the 1700's. James is considered to be the
>> father of my line of Couches.
>> I start my 30th year of teaching biology at Oral Roberts University
>> next week. Having turned 65 this spring, I plan to teach year by year.
>> Best wishes,
>> probably distant cousin Richard
>>
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