Fay, I know Martin Couch married a Hall. Who did James Couch marry? Thanks. Jo

Jo, maybe we should start a John Couch descendent club lol. Which child do you descend from? I descend from both Martin (my dad) and James (my mom). Fay > > From: JoGordon@webtv.net (Jo Gordon) > Date: 2005/04/11 Mon PM 09:49:32 EDT > To: COUCH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [COUCH] John C. Couch of 1750 > > Hi Jeff, > I too am from John Couch and Elizabeth Campbell. e-mail me and I'll > tell you what I know of them, which admittedly isn't much -- there's not > a great deal known for sure about them I fear. > Jo > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >

Fay, I'm from Nancy Couch & William Campbell - dau of John and son of Elizabeth. Jo

Hi I am a descendent of John Couch & Elizabeth a couple times over. Which of his children's lines are you interested in? email me at fannyfay@zoomtown.com and lets compare. Fay > > From: jwcouch <jwcouch@direcway.com> > Date: 2005/04/11 Mon PM 04:42:37 EDT > To: COUCH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [COUCH] John C. Couch of 1750 > > Dear List I am looking for Info/documentation for the children of John C. > Couch Born 1750 married to Elizabeth James Campbell. If anyone can help me > this info please contact me online or off at jwcouch@couchco.com > > Sincerely > Jeff Couch > www.couchco.com > > > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >

Well go to www.couchco.com and join the BBS and lets do some research for them....

Hi Jeff, I too am from John Couch and Elizabeth Campbell. e-mail me and I'll tell you what I know of them, which admittedly isn't much -- there's not a great deal known for sure about them I fear. Jo

Dear List I am looking for Info/documentation for the children of John C. Couch Born 1750 married to Elizabeth James Campbell. If anyone can help me this info please contact me online or off at jwcouch@couchco.com Sincerely Jeff Couch www.couchco.com

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: COUCH, SANDLIN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zBQ.2ACEB/1042.1.1 Message Board Post: Marti: Please email me to exchange info. I have some ancestors but there is conflicting information out there about the ancestors. Thanks.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: couch Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zBQ.2ACEB/1042.1 Message Board Post: I have some information on this family. My husband' line follows a differnt one but I have parents and grandparents of this line. If I can be of some help contact me.

> Hello It is a form of insanity. If you think she came throught Ellis Island there is a web site for Ellis Island and you can search for names. Larry > From: Ldystarhawk69@aol.com > Date: 2005/04/08 Fri PM 01:44:35 EDT > To: COUCH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [COUCH] elizabeth n.(couch) page > > thanks to becky griswold i was able to put many pieces together on my > great-grandmother. what i need to know now is how to locate her immigration records > and how to follow her in england. yes, i am a newbie to this sort of thing, > my boyfriend calls genealogy a form of insanity and he has been researching > his family for years. > > thanks > jackie marquez > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

> Hello It is a form of insanity. If you think she came throught Ellis Island there is a web site for Ellis Island and you can search for names. Larry > From: Ldystarhawk69@aol.com > Date: 2005/04/08 Fri PM 01:44:35 EDT > To: COUCH-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [COUCH] elizabeth n.(couch) page > > thanks to becky griswold i was able to put many pieces together on my > great-grandmother. what i need to know now is how to locate her immigration records > and how to follow her in england. yes, i am a newbie to this sort of thing, > my boyfriend calls genealogy a form of insanity and he has been researching > his family for years. > > thanks > jackie marquez > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >

Cousin Richard, Welcom to the happy land of retirement! It is the best job I have ever had. I am still trying to connect your Captain John and James from Buckingham County, VA with Thomas and Elizabeth Couch of Brunswick County VA from about 1720. Some way if we can find the connecting links then I know we will have the breakthrough we have been lookin for. Most of the Group 5 DNA members we belong to can trace their line back to Brunswick County, VA. I think I have found that the Thomas John Couch that you mentioned going to Kentucky is connected with the John Couch and his son Martin who also went to Kentucky from Ashe County, NC after having been in Orange County, NC. Since you have retired perhaps you will be able to help more. You have certainly helped me a lot in the past. My book has grown to about 450 pages now and still growing. I have found a printer and hope to publishe what I have in either one or two volumes by 2007. I was not at Auburn when you were here. I began working in the school of education in the Spring of 1967 and worked there until I retired in 1994. See where you have been helping with the AARP-TCE program. I have just been invited to join that program and think I will join up and help the poor with their income tax. How would you advise me. I am already a volunteer Mediator with the local courts, on the Family Selection Committee with Habitat for Humanity, edit the Old folks newletter at my church along with some other church duties. That along with my book keeps me hopping. My high school class is having its 50th Reunion next month and I am involved in that. More recently, a friend of mind and I have begun a project to photograph in B & W all the remaining 19th Century Wooden Churces in Alabama. We have done close to 3,000 pictures to date and published a calendar of our church photography last year. Now contemplating a coffee table book of our old Alabama Churches. Please keep in touch. I know that you and I are only ten days apart in age but forgot who is the oldest. My B'day is the 20th of March, 1937. Your cousin and 25/25 marker DNA match Bob Couch -----Original Message----- From: RCouch1148@aol.com [mailto:RCouch1148@aol.com] Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 8:43 AM To: COUCH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [COUCH] Re: Peter Couch and Alabama Couch descendents Bob, I didn't realize until reading this email from you that you were on the Auburn University faculty the years (1963-65) I was a doctoral student in the Botany Department at Auburn. During those two years I was struggling to get the degree finished without failure --- certainly not thinking about Couch heritage matters. I retired last May from teaching biology 31 years at Oral Robert University and 8 years at Athens College in north Alabama. Jane and I recently moved into a retirement village just south of the ORU campus. We're staying busy with grandchildren, volunteer work here at the village, with Gideons International service, and for me, as a volunteer (10 years) tax preparer for the AARP-TCE program and CAP, a local program aimed at low income folk needing free help preparing and e-filing their tax returns. I continue enjoying your emails I see from time to time. I continue hoping to see that someone has found our common Couch ancestor?? cousin Richard of Tulsa, Oklahoma ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

thanks to becky griswold i was able to put many pieces together on my great-grandmother. what i need to know now is how to locate her immigration records and how to follow her in england. yes, i am a newbie to this sort of thing, my boyfriend calls genealogy a form of insanity and he has been researching his family for years. thanks jackie marquez

Bob, I didn't realize until reading this email from you that you were on the Auburn University faculty the years (1963-65) I was a doctoral student in the Botany Department at Auburn. During those two years I was struggling to get the degree finished without failure --- certainly not thinking about Couch heritage matters. I retired last May from teaching biology 31 years at Oral Robert University and 8 years at Athens College in north Alabama. Jane and I recently moved into a retirement village just south of the ORU campus. We're staying busy with grandchildren, volunteer work here at the village, with Gideons International service, and for me, as a volunteer (10 years) tax preparer for the AARP-TCE program and CAP, a local program aimed at low income folk needing free help preparing and e-filing their tax returns. I continue enjoying your emails I see from time to time. I continue hoping to see that someone has found our common Couch ancestor?? cousin Richard of Tulsa, Oklahoma

I do live in Alabama, Auburn Alabama the garden spot of the world. Where do you live? Born in Winfield, I went to school at Florence and Montevallo. Live in Birmingham, Gadsden and Montgomery. Have been in Auburn since 1957 when I joined the AU Faculty. Retired ten years now. Bob Couch -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of ectucker_2000@yahoo.com Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 2:11 PM To: COUCH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [COUCH] Re: Peter Couch and Alabama Couch descendents This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zBQ.2ACEB/450.542.1 Message Board Post: Uriah Couh is my great-great grandmother's father. Her name was Buannah Couch and she married Thomas Montgomery Tilley. Yes, I'm still interested. I met someone in Cullman some years ago who was related to the Holmes through a Couch in some manner. She is deceased now and her name will not come to mind. Maybe I'll find it in my notes one day. I'll check out the links. Thanks. Do you still live in Alabama? I do. ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zBQ.2ACEB/450.542.1.1 Message Board Post: I live in Tennessee. The Holmes moved from Alabama to Flintville, TN when my grandmother was small. When my grandmother entered Heaven in 2001, she left many, many pictures- some dating back to the late 1800's. Among those pictures were some marked 'Couch'. I have been trying to figure out where they fit in our family tree. A couple of months ago, I was looking through pictures and papers that belonged to my great grandmother. For some reason in an unusual place, she had written down her (or her daughter's)great grandparents names. That is the way I found Uriah Couch. When I go through those pictures, I will send you the Couch names just in case they are ones you recognize. I would love to know more about who there are. Let me know if you would like to see some of these pictures. If so,I send your email address so I can send them as attachments. Thanks for responding! glenda

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zBQ.2ACEB/1045 Message Board Post: PLEASE NOTE, I AM NOT A MEMBER OF THIS FAMILY. I’VE ONLY DONE A COPY AND PASTE FROM OUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER FYI. Ila M. Reitz Posted: Thursday, Apr 07, 2005 - 03:19:09 pm PDT COLUMBIA BASIN HERALD. MOSES LAKE, WASHINGTON. Ila M. Reitz, 68, longtime Warden resident, passed away Wednesday, April 6, 2005 at SunBridge Care and Rehabilitation in Moses Lake. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Monday, April 11 at the Warden First Baptist Church with Doctor Lester Johnson officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Warden. Arrangements are in care of Kayer's Chapel and Crematory, Moses Lake. Ila was born August 8, 1936 in Belle Fourche, South Dakota, daughter of the late Edward and Edna (Mellor) Couch. As a young girl the family moved to Kellogg, Idaho, where she was raised. She was married to Albert Reitz, Sr. Ila eventually settled in the Columbia Basin in 1951 and had lived in Moses Lake and Othello before moving to Warden. She had worked at "Big John's" in Warden for many years, retiring following ownership changes in the 1980's. She enjoyed traveling, camping, family reunions and playing pinochle with family and friends. She is survived by seven daughters and spouses, Marlene and Jim Macken, Warden, Linda and LaMarr Trayler, Sherman, Texas, Pamela and Jack Lepper, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Twila and Gilbert Hernandez, Moses Lake, Peggie and Ed Wurzer, Warden, Kerry Reitz, Warden and Susie and Kent Hall, Moses Lake; two sons, Albert Reitz, Jr., Warden and Johnnie Reitz, Moses Lake; three sisters and spouses, Mickie and Gilbert Williamson, Moses Lake, Ruth Marez, Royal City and Merry and Juan Blanco, Moses Lake; close companion, Pete Schmunk, Warden; numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren and nieces and nephews. One daughter, Sharon Reitz and one granddaughter, Shanna Hernandez, preceded her in death.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zBQ.2ACEB/450.542.1 Message Board Post: Uriah Couh is my great-great grandmother's father. Her name was Buannah Couch and she married Thomas Montgomery Tilley. Yes, I'm still interested. I met someone in Cullman some years ago who was related to the Holmes through a Couch in some manner. She is deceased now and her name will not come to mind. Maybe I'll find it in my notes one day. I'll check out the links. Thanks. Do you still live in Alabama? I do.

Glenda, If I am not mistaken Peter and Uriah Couch did descend from Jacob Couch of Greene County, TN. Jacob is believed to have descended from one Casper Kentz (AKA Couch) or Katz from Saxe Gotha, SC. Saxe Gotha (Now Lexington, SC) was one of the German Colonies establised in SC to help populate the place. Many of the descendents of Casper Kentz. Nicholas Couch, son of Jacob was in Madison County (MS TERR)and was counted in the territorial census of 1809. Peter, Uriah, and others lived in Morgan County. I think i told you of the Still Standing Peter Couch house in a Cove in Morgan County where Peter is burried. I hope I got this right. Boyce Morris of Tennessee is an authority on this family and Oregon Bob has a website set up for this Couch family related to Jacob Couch of Greene Co, TN. So, like I did with Boyce some years back we believe that the two Couch famlies lived in Madison and Morgan Counties together but were not really related since Jacob descended from Casper Kentz of Saxe Gotha, SC. Do you have anything on a Green Couch from this line? Bob Couch -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com [mailto:gc-gateway@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of purejoy@comcast.net Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 9:14 PM To: COUCH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [COUCH] Re: Peter Couch and Alabama Couch descendents This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zBQ.2ACEB/450.542 Message Board Post: Uriah Couch (Peter's 4th child) is my greatgrandmother's (Toxanna Jackson Holmes) great grandfather. He lived in Morgan County, AL. Are you still looking for links for this? If so, check out these two: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/C1/c32.htm www.couchgenweb.com/couch/jacob.htm The first link has Peter's dad, Jacob Couch (died before 1797) and all of his kids and their descendants. It is a pretty awesome list. Let me know what you think if you still check this. Nice to meet a relative! God bless, glenda clark ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zBQ.2ACEB/450.542 Message Board Post: Uriah Couch (Peter's 4th child) is my greatgrandmother's (Toxanna Jackson Holmes) great grandfather. He lived in Morgan County, AL. Are you still looking for links for this? If so, check out these two: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/C1/c32.htm www.couchgenweb.com/couch/jacob.htm The first link has Peter's dad, Jacob Couch (died before 1797) and all of his kids and their descendants. It is a pretty awesome list. Let me know what you think if you still check this. Nice to meet a relative! God bless, glenda clark