Franklin COUCH

Notes:

Database: WWI Civilian Draft Registrations

Name: Couch, Charles Raymond
Birth Date: 30 Apr 1886
Birth Place:
City/County: Shoshone
State: ID
Ethnicity: W

Source Information:
Banks, Ray, comp. World War I Civilian Draft Registrations. [database on-line] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000.
Database comprises partial index of microfilmed draft registration cards: United States. Selective Service System. Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. National Archives Microfilm Publications: M1509, Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1987-88.

Charles married Fannie Mae FITE. Fannie was born on 6 May 1892 in KS; died in 1964. [Group Sheet]

Charlie married Elva A. LEONARD on 2 Sep 1884. Elva was born in Nov 1862 in NY. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

birth given as after 01-14-1826 & 1831

Birth: BET 14 JAN 1826 AND 1831 in Wabash Co., IL
Death: 15 AUG 1901
Military Service: 10 JUL 1863 Enlisted as a private Company D, 108th Infantry Regiment Indiana
Military Service: 17 JUL 1863 Mustered Out in Indianapolis Indiana
Note:
July 10, 1863: Enlisted as a private Company D, 108th Infantry Regiment Indiana
July 17, 1863: Mustered Out in Indianapolis Indiana

Lafayette married Mary Jane MCKINNEY on 12 Apr 1852 in Carroll Co, IN. Mary (daughter of William MCKINNEY and Margaret) was born on 8 Apr 1831 in TN; died on 2 May 1880 in Jewell Co., KS. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

death also listed as aft 1838 in Timberville, Wabash Co., IL

"Combined history of Edwards, Lawrence and Wabash counties, Illinois. With illustrations ... and biographical sketches of some of their prominent men and pioneers "

In 1816, quite a little colony left Alleghany county, New York, to make their homes upon the wild frontiers. Among these with their families, were George W. Higgins, John Higgios, Willis Higgins, Edward Brines, Henry Utter, Lemuel Haskins, David Moss, John Harrison, Benjamin Smith, and Levi Couch. They secured boats at the Alleghany river and floated down to the Ohio, and thence to Evansville. Here they procured keel-boats and came up the Wabash, landing at Old Palmyra. Of this little band of emigrants, five families settled in Lancaster precinct, John Higgins, Couch, Moss, Harrison and Smith. The others located in Friendsville. Others of an early date who located in Lancaster precinct were, Isaac Harues, Henry Cusick, James McMullen, George and David Pugh, George and Andrew Knight, James Rollins, Jessie Jones, Geo. Glick Elias Baily, Rozander Smith, Samuel Fisher and others.

Doug's Note: Levi's son Hiram and grandson Levi, both came from Allegheny, NY.

Died:
alt death year "aft 1838, Timberville, Wabash Co, IL (Higgins-Mapes Family Association)

Levi married MARY. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

birth year given as 1805 (only data on Mary) - record shows Mary as 1st wife, but dates of children indicate she was 2nd wife

William married Margaret. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

John Wood, Jr. is a D.A.R. certified veteran of the American Revolutionary War, serving for Connecticut: A026420

Boyce Cemetery Information

COUCH LOT Click Image for Full Boyce Cemetery Listing

Capt. Ebenezer Couch, also Ebenezer Couch, Jr.
Military Service: Captain Revolutionary War
Burial: North Milton Cemetery, Saratoga County, NY

Will Records of Saratoga County, New York 1796-1805
Will Records of Saratoga County, New York

OSPage: 82
Name: Ebenezer Couch
My wife, Sarah My oldest son, John My sons: Ebenezer, Aaron, Joel Bostwick, and John My daughters: Anne Whitlock, wife of Henry; and Elizabeth Benedict, wife of Benjamin My daughter, Sarah My son, Ebenezer and wife, Sarah, Exe. Probated: 17 August 1800

Article Title: Ebenezer Couch (Capt.), B.1733, Connecticut Periodical: American Monthly Magazine

Darren Couch of Girard, KS said he paid to have Ebenezer Couch, Jr's grave stone set upright again after it fell over...set in gravel rather than on base.

Ebenezer married Sarah KINNEY on 04 Nov 1777 in New Preston Congregational Church, New Preston, CT. Sarah (daughter of Jacob KINNEY) was born on 27 Mar 1750 in New Milford, Litchfield Co, CT; died on 09 Nov 1822 in Milton, Saratoga Co, NY; was buried in North Milton Cemetery, Milton, Saratoga Co, NY. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

COUCH LOT Click Image for Full Boyce Cemetery Listing

2nd wife of Capt. Ebenezer Couch

Died:
(Sarah's death also given as 10 Nov 1822, and death place as Upper Merryall, Litchfield Co, CT. However, since Sarah moved from CT to NY and had children there, it is more likely she died there, and she is listed as buried in NY as well.)

Notes:

Ebenezer Couch, Sr. is a D.A.R. certified veteran of the American Revolutionary War, serving for Connecticut: A026419

Ebenezer (Sr.) was also Chairman of the Observation Committee for Fairfield. In the Revolutionary War, that makes him the head of the Culpepper Spy ring in Fairfield, CT. The British became so angry over the success of spies in Fairfield as you may already know, they came w/Hessians across Long Island Sound in 1779 and burned Fairfield to the ground, house by house. That is why Captain Ebenezer and his younger brother, who was a private migrated together to Milton, NY, where they are buried, side by side. Later Sarah Kinney would be buried next to him. Many of the former residents of Fairfield, Ct migrated together to NY.

Ebenezer Couch was a member of the Safety Committee, his son who had several businesses in Fairfield, Conn., served as a Captain in the Revolutionary war, his son John, played the fife in his company and his son Ebenezer Jr., worked as a waiter for the company. One of their winter encampments in Connecticut is to this day undisturbed and military historians and archaeologists are trying to raise the funds to preserve the 50 plus acre site.

Captain Ebenezer Couch lost everything to include his wife, businesses, home, as a result of his service. The British wanted to teach the colonists a lesson and selected Fairfield, Connecticut as the place to demonstrate their brutality. The town was burned to the ground and innocent women and children were killed. George Washington addressed the sacrifice of the residents of Fairfield, Conn. Joel Bostwick who served under Captain Ebenezer Couch, died, and his wife, Sarah Kinney Bostwick, and Ebenezer would marry after the war. They would move the family to Saratoga, New York, and live on rented lands.

Christened:
History of Fairfield, V2, First Extant Parish Record of Christ's Church, Fairfield, p.479

Ebenezer married Ann CRANE on 18 May 1731 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT. Ann was born on 24 May 1711 in Windham, Windham Co, CT. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

"The General Assembly met on the 12th of October, [1710] when Mr. James Rennet and Mr. Samuel Couch represented Fairfield. Mr. Samuel Couch was confirmed captain, Mr. John Osborn lieutenant and Mr. Benjamin Rumsey ensign of Green's Farms train-band." - The History of Fairfield County, Connecticut, 1700-1800, Vol. II

Capt. Samuel Couch, death also given as 1725 but will dated 1739, birth also given as abt.1670 (1666 date from Frost Gen.)

"The History of the Town of Catharine, Schuyler County, New York"
by The Tuttle Publishing Co. Inc., Rutland, Vermont, 1945.

Ensign, west company, Fairfield, June 1709; Lt. Oct 1709; Capt. Oct 1710;
Deputy (Fairfield), Oct 1710; Oct 1712, May and Oct 1720, May 173, Oct 1734;
Justice 1723-39.

Will 12 May 1739, proved 3 Dec 1739; advanced in years; legacies to sons Samuel,
Benjamin, John (at College, to have out of his estate education for four
years), and Ebenezer; daughters Eunice wife of Reuben Taylor and Abigail Couch;
grandson Joseph Jackson; residue equally to children, Samuel, Benjamin,
Ebenezer and Solomon Couch, Mary Couch, Edry Frost, Eunice Taylor, Elizabeth
Todd and Abigail Couch.

Samuel, Benjamin, Ebenezer and Solomon Couch, Joseph Crane and wife Mary, Joseph

Frost and wife Adra, Nathaniel Hibbard and wife Abigail, all of Fairfield,
Reuben Taylor and wife Eunice of Norwalk, and Rev. Jonathan Todd and wife
Elizabeth of Guilford, conveyed 15 June 1741 to brother John Couch of
Fairfield, land in Redding.

All information from:
"History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield"
by Donald Lines Jacobus, Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter DAR, Fairfield, CT, 1930.
Allen Co. Public Library, Ft. Wayne, IN. Gc 974.602 F161j

Samuel married Edrea HURLBUT. Edrea (daughter of Thomas HURLBUT and Mary Brown) was born in 1674 in Woodbury, Litchfield Co, CT; died on 24 Nov 1737 in Westport, Fairfield Co, CT. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

birth also given as abt 1674, age 65 at death > 1737 death minus 65 years gives 1672 birth year from gravestone (1668 birth date from Frost Gen.)

Also given as Edra, and dau name is Edra.

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