Bloomington (IN) Morning World, September 9, 1899, Clipping File, Genealogy Library, Monroe County History Center, Bloomington, Indiana. NOTE: Another, lengthier obit in the clipping file indicated Rebecca Crouch had been institutionalized twice prior to the death of her husband. DEATH BY MORPHINE ROUTE Joseph Crouch died at eleven o'clock yesterday morning from the effects of morphine. Crouch lived with his family on West Fourth Street and has not been in his right mind for some time. Thursday night he sat up until after midnight and did not awaken yesterday morning. His wife became alarmed and sent for a physician, and it was soon seen that he was suffering from poison. The doctors could do nothing for the man, and at eleven o'clock he expired. An empty morphine bottle was found in his pocket, and it is supposed that he took all the contents of it. Mrs. Crouch stated that she had been uneasy about the mental condition of her husband. He had had several business failures, and brooding over this trouble is thought to have been the motive for his act. Joseph Crouch was the son of James Crouch and was born in Kentucky 43 years ago. He was married 22 years to Rebecca Pedro of Brown County. To the union were born eight children. In 1897, Crouch moved his family from Nashville to this city and engaged in the grocery business on East Fourth Street and later was a cross tie buyer. The funeral will occur Sunday afternoon at two o'clock. The funeral party will leave here early Sunday morning and the remains will be buried about eight miles east of Nashville.