Couch
Birth: 1750 Or 1760 - Culpeper, USA
Marriage: 1774 - Frederick, Virginia, USA
And The Strange Case of Nancy Ann Couch And John C. Couch
Death: 1845 - Breathitt, Kentucky, United States
Parents: Capt Jesse Saunders, Ann Yancey
[No one can try to trace the Couch family without getting a migraine – yet everybody associated with our family wants to trace
Spouse: George Thomas Noble
him because of his association – and ours – with the Boone family – and with Daniel. Here is a sampling of some of the problems genealogists are having – expressed in their internet postings.]
Born 1751 in Fairfax, VA.
Died in Loundon Co, VA.
1. John Couch father was Ance/Ancel …….NO FATHER has been found yet
Parents: George Noble & Mary Anne Alexander.
2. John Couch is German…..No English DNA says do
Spouse: Julie Winnie Saunders. Children: Nathan Noble, Enoch, Ethan, Mary, William, Patsy, Mollie, John.
3. John Couch born in Berks Pa…..No Couch in Berks just Orange Co NC.
4. John Couch had 3 wives…..No proven in Orange Co NC
Nathan Noble.
5. Orange Co NC 1783 marriage does NOT belong to Perry Co Couch….documented
Born in 1781 in Culpepper, Va.
6. John Couch weight 500 lbs…. NO size of the wagon he drove. common sense please!
Died March 23, 1858 in Lost Creek. Kentucky. Age 77.
7. John Couch is Rev War soldier…….????
m. Jane Virginia Neace, the daughter of Henry Neace & Ann Bush - daughter of James Bush and Mary Plunkett. James 8. John Couch died in Perry Co……no record has been found of him there.
is the son of Austin Bush and unknown.
9. Mary Couch sister/cousin to Daniel….Not sister those are documented…..cousin can’t find proof.
George Washington Noble
10. Mary Elizabeth Boon is her full name……documented
b. 1824. d. 1862. Age 38.
11. Mary Elizabeth Boon has land in her name in Charleston WV…..documented.
m. Phoebe Campbell (Part Cherokee)
12. Patrick Campbell father to John & Wm…..DNA says NO
Notes from Genealogy.com: “Two Yankees, Nim McIntosh and Hen Kilburn waylaid George at his home on Barge’s
13. Patrick Campbell marriage & divorce records have never been found
Branch, Breathitt Co., KY and when he came out they shot and killed him. His brother Lossen Noble was killed about 14. Patrick Campbell Sr. or Jr. never married Eliz James…his family is well documentated.
the same time on John Little’s Creek. George went to Missouri in 1844 and came back to Kentucky and married Phoebe 15. LetticeTaylor or Grace Grissel Hay are ….No……relation to us.
Campbell, daughter of Lewis Campbell, and he named his first daughter Missouri for the state. George was a farmer.”
16. Elizabeth James who is she & who was she married too????
17. Elizabeth James is she really mother to John & Wm.????
Caleb Jacob Lovejoy Noble
18. Elizabeth James ……NOT…. related to Jesse, his family is well documented.
b. 1859, KY. d. 1928. KY Age 78.
19. 2 different Campbell families in Perry Co 1800’s….DNA now separates them.
m. Sarah Jane Noble b. 1878. d. 1954. Daughter of James Noble and Rachel Napier
20. James Barlett Couch…NO… Jms Bartlett Couch paid taxes in Buckingham Va. too old to be s/o John & Mary.
Ambrose Noble
21. John Couch, Jr Mufflenburg Co Ky. did he really marry Janet Campbell (& who is she? Parents?)
b. circa 1896. d. 1963. Age 67.
22. Nancy Hall wife of Wm Campbell…who is she???
m. Omega Noble
23. 1850 census has an very old woman living with Pasty Grigsby……. who is the old woman????
24. Mary Patterson buried in Perry co Ky….NO she never left Orange Co NC
Vesta Noble
25. And who is buried at Campbell’s bend where Mary Patterson’s stone lays????
b. 1921. d. 2003 Age 83.
26. What happen to John Couch’s stone? It wasn’t there the past spring
m. Edward Fugate (1912-1964)
Here are other frustrations of other committed family researchers:
Inez Fugate
Good grief. I did not realize you were looking for Mary Elizabeth Polly BOONE who married John COUCH. I
b. 1948
have tried to find her parents since 1997. AND NO those rumours and myths are exactly that. Well for certain that m. Robert Liftig. 1971. b. 1947
Sarah BOONE who married John WILCOXSON did not have a twin. In fact scratch all of them. She is not of the Squire Anya Liftig
BOONE, Sr and Sarah MORGAN line. That I am sure of.
b. 1977
> > So many of “my own passed family researchers” have messed it up so so bad, more rumors than facts, no
m. Noel Hartman, 2011
documentation!!!
Dorothy Liftig
She was born in Berks, Pa. between 1740-1750’s
b. 1981
She was married in Isle of Wright
m. David Martin, 2009
She was a twin to Sarah who married the Wilcoxsen.
She was a slave, mother Indian & father Squire sr. (Dan’l father)
She was George’s daughter (Dan’l bro Geo)
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