Crouch, William P.

WILLIAM P. CROUCH, farmer, P.O. Randolph, was born in Randolph Township, this county, March 28, 1849; son of Delos and Susannah (Byham) Crouch, former of whom was born March 4, 1816, and died June 5, 1875; the latter was born January 18, 1821, and died May 17, 1863. Delos Crouch came to Randolph Township, this county, in 1826, and followed farming all his days. He was a consistent member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in which he was Steward several years. They were parents of six girls and four boys: Mary E. (wife of C. Loveless), Emma J. (wife of S. Fitch), Ella S., Adelia (deceased, wife of T. Wilder), Eudora, Inez, Lesley (died in the army), William P., Roscoe, (deceased) and Horace E. The latter was born July 27, 1858, and graduated at the Cambridge Conservatory of Music, June 25, 1884. Our subject’s paternal grandfather, Jonathan Crouch, was born April 2, 1773, and died November 20, 1826. His wife, Elizabeth Perkins, was born May 17, 1791, and died August 21, 1873. The subject of this sketch was regularly brought up to farming, and has followed that occupation all his life. He was married December 17, 1876, to Miss Amelia Smith, born in Randolph Township, this county, September 22, 1856, daughter of Joel and Mary (Blanchard) Smith, of Randolph Township.