Sam, I got your listing of Tim Couch's line. 3,700 pages! No wonder my computer refused to accept your work. I overwhelmed it. But, with the careful documentation and sources you must have surely you can fathom a hypothesis about the common ancestor that Ron Couch and I have. I have documented evidence that Thomas Couch recieved land in Brunswick County, VA in 1720 (This Brunswick County area became Lunenburg Co, VA in 1746. There is a Couches creek just west of Lunenburg community and my sources say that is the area where Thomas Couched lived. There is evidence that Thomas Couch married an Elizabeth and had a son named Matthew in 1725. There are also land records that show a Thomas Couch giving/selling some of his land to Thomas Couch Jr. My projection that the Thomas Couch Jr that was born in 1720 was also the son of Thomas and Elizabeth. Other Brunswick County records show a William Couch and a James Couch there as well. Thus we have documented proof that the Couch family of Brunswick Co, VA had citizens there named Thomas Sr, Thomas Jr, Matthew, James and William. HOtten's list also names Thomas, William and James in VA in 1830. Orange County NC land records (I have an official map) shows that William and Thomas have land grants there near Hillsborough, NC and James Couch is nearby. Next we find Thomas Jr in Spartanburg SC along the banks of the Enoree river there. With him is a Matthew Couch, William Couch, James Couch, John Couch, Middleton Couch, Joseph Couch, Z. A. Couch, Benjamin Couch, Drury Couch. WE know that the son of Thomas Jr was a John Couch b. Orange County, NC in 1745. Now I have had to fill in the dots to make the kind of conservation hypothesis that this is my line. The DNA test shows that Danny Couch of NC is from the line of Thomas Couch Sr's brother William Couch. Ron Couch of KY, Dr Richard Couch of Oklahoma, Robert Murphy Couch of AR and Al, Bob Couch of TN, and others all know we have a common ancestor somewhere. I think that ancestor is the Thomas and Elizabeth Couch of Lunenburg, VA or the father of Thomas Couch Sr of Brunswick/Lunenburg Co, VA. What do you think? Perhaps Thomas Couch SR came down from Pennsylvinia or Conneticut. I just do not knonw and have just about exausted my search. Robert H. Couch ---------- >From: Windwalker <windwalker@fastmail.fm> >To: COUCH-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [COUCH] atten robert >Date: Thu, Aug 28, 2003, 11:15 PM > >On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 13:23, Couch, Robert H. wrote: > > RE: Tim Couch. > > Using what you have said and reading the Martin Couch line on the charts of > Bill Couch of AR I have found the following. I want to verify if this is > correct. Is Eli "Eel" Couch the same as the Ira Couch you mentioned as son > of Martin Couch? I would appreciate your checking the veracity of this. > > > I have looked at the Charts of Bill Couch on the internet and have found one > Bige Couch, ancestor of Tim Couch. According to the Charts, Eli "Eel" Couch > (1810-1885) son of Martin Couch was b in NC and married Mahala Sally > Sizemore. Eli's son was Felix Couch (1860) who married Lucy Lewis (b 1875). > Next comes Bige Couch. The chart ends here but in earlier correspondence > with you, Ron and others there is then a Bige Couch Jr in Leslie Co, KY. > Bige Jr is the father of Tim Couch's dad Elbert Wayne Couch. Then Tim was > born in 1977. Is that about right? Please correct me if I am wrong. > > >See offlist email. >if you print what I sent BEWARE... its 3700 pages >use a genealogy program >Sam > > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >