This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sweet & Crouch Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HBRBAIB/1153 Message Board Post: An Illustrated History of Spokane County, Washington, 1900, page 697. WILLIAM R. SWEET, a pioneer of 1879, was born in Kansas in 1865. He came to Nevada when eleven years old, spent three years there, then moved to The Dalles, Oregon. After passing one summer in that town he came to Spokane county, where his father homesteaded one hundred and sixty acres of land about four and a half miles from Mica postoffice. As soon as final proof was made this land was deeded to William R., who still owns and farms eighty acres of it. He is engaged in diversified farming and handles quite a large number of cattle and horses every year. He also has a nice little orchard of about four hundred fruit trees. Mr. Sweet is an industrious, enterprising man and a successful farmer, and he is highly esteemed and respected in his community. He was married in Kootenai, Washington, in 1894 to Miss Josephine Crouch, and they have one child, Roddy Curtis. Note: I believe it was Kootenai, Idaho he was married at. I'm not related to this family