Darius COUCH

Leonard married Cecilia May FRANCIS on 25 Apr 1882. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Flames Beyond Gettysburg: The Confederate Expedition to the Susquehanna River, June 1863", by Scott Leroy Mingus, Sr. – Much detail is given regarding defenses against Confederate incursions toward the Susquehanna River and Gettysburg, including information on the plans and actions of Maj. Gen. Darius Nash Couch.






Original Letter July 8, 1882 from Darius to Maj. Gen. Wm. B. Franklin with Darius' signature is for sale at HistoryForSale.com image: 177241.jpg (as of July 28, 2010)

Discovered two species: Couch's Kingbird & Couch's Spadefoot Toad.

Burial: Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol County, Mass.
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This is for all of you who are wondering if you are related to Darius Nash Couch.
Darius was b NY 1822 to Jonathan Couch and Betsey (Hall) Penney.
Jonathan was b CT 1777 to Thomas III and Sarah Nash.
Thomas III was b CT 1751 to Thomas II and Elizabeth Jesup.
Thomas II was b CT 1725 to Thomas I and Sarah (Allen) Keeler.
Thomas I was b CT 1695 to Simon II and Abigail Sturges.
Simon II was b CT ? to Simon I and Mary Andrews.
Darius and Mary Caroline had 2 children:
1. Leonard Crocker Couch b 1856.
2. Alice Leavenworth Couch b 1858
Last I heard, a woman in CT was writing a book on Darius Couch. She gave me some of this information.
Eleanor ( Date: October 07, 2000 - http://genforum.genealogy.com/cgi-bin/pageload.cgi?Darius::couch::1330.html )

Couch, Darius Nash , Major General, USA
1822-1897
Massachusetts
Before Antietam:
Pre-War Profession: Graduated USMA 1846 (13th of 59) with Army service in the Mexican and Seminole wars. Noted naturalist and later manufacturer. In June 1861 made Col. of the 7th Massachusetts Regiment. In May 1861 appointed BGen and commanded 1st Division of the IV Corps in Peninsula and Seven Days campaigns. Promoted to MGen in July 62.
In Antietam campaign:
In command of the 1st Division/ Fourth (IV) Corps, but was on something of a wild goose chase toward and back from Harpers Ferry all day on September 17th. His division was not engaged at Antietam.
After Antietam:
He commanded Second (II) Corps at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and then applied for relief of duty. He commanded Pennsylvania militia in the Gettysburg campaign, and led the 2nd Division/XXIII Corps during the Nashville and Carolinas campaigns.
After the War:
Post War Career: Politician.

Lt. Darius Nash Couch (1822-1897) was on a leave of absence in 1853-54 to collect birds in Mexico for the Smithsonian when he found the oriole. It was later learned the bird had actually been discovered 17 years earlier by Bonaparte, however, the common name was retained. Couch did find a new toad and a kingbird which Spencer Baird named in his honor. Couch later distinguished himself in the Civil War, rising to the rank of General.


Birth:
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Darius married Mary Caroline CROCKER on 31 Aug 1854 in Taunton, Plymouth Co, MA. Mary (daughter of Rep. Samuel Leonard CROCKER and Hannah Weld Thomas) was born on 16 Mar 1826 in Taunton, Bristol Co, MA; died on 29 Dec 1912 in Taunton, Bristol Co, MA; was buried in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol Co, MA. [Group Sheet]

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Birth:
birth also given as 18 Mar 1829

Notes:

Information about Darius Nash Couch having a son named Robert apparently came from a mis-copying of a transcription of Appletons Cyclopædia of American Biographies, pages 753-754 (James Grant Wilson & John Fiske, 1887). The information about a son named Robert Jackson on those pages actually refers to Robert Jackson Coudin (Cowdin), whose son Robert did exist and died at the Battle of Cold Harbor. By all verifiable accounts and modern day testimony of his direct descendants, Darius never had a son named Robert.

Notes:

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Another source was from the book on Darius Couch pg 34, which list's it's source from : Allen Collection.........William S. Pelletreu, History of Putnam County (Brewster, NY: Landmark Preservation Society, 1975), 425.


Died:
Location of death was listed as S.E., NY. The town of Southeast, NY is in S.E., NY, just across the state line from CT, where Jonathan was born. So the town of Southeast is used as the likely location.

Jonathan married Betsey HALL-PENNEY. Betsey was born in 1787. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

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Another source was from the book on Darius Couch pg 34, which list's it's source from : Allen Collection.........William S. Pelletreu, History of Putnam County (Brewster, NY: Landmark Preservation Society, 1975), 425.

Notes:

CROCKER, Samuel Leonard, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Taunton, Mass., March 31, 1804; was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1822; engaged in manufacturing; member of the executive council of Massachusetts in 1849; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853-March 3, 1855); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; president of the Taunton Copper Manufacturing Co.; died in Boston, Mass., February 10, 1883; interment in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Taunton, Bristol County, Mass.

Samuel married Hannah Weld Thomas. Hannah was born in 1803; died in 1827. [Group Sheet]

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Thomas Couch III

Thomas Couch, of Fairfield, removed to Redding prior to the Revolution, and settled on
Umpawaug Hill. He married, April 2d, 1772, Sarah, daughter of Jonathan Nash, of Fairfield.
Their children were: Sarah, born August 9th, 1773, died young; Thomas, born September
23d, 1774; Jonathan, born February 13th, 1777, who was the father of Major-General Couch,
distinguished in the War of the Rebellion; Sarah, born September 18th, 1779; Nathan, born
September 25th, 1781; Esther, born December 14th, 1783; Moses, born October 2d, 1786;
Edward, born March 7th, 1789; Hezekiah, born March 14th, 1791; Mary, born April 21st,
1793; John, born July 28th, 1795. Mr. Thomas Couch died in Redding in 1817.

At the outbreak of the Revolution Thomas Couch enlisted in the patriot army, and was one of
the band of heroes who were present with Montgomery at the siege of Quebec. He left his
wife with their young children in Fairfield. When Tryon moved on that town, Mrs. Couch had
what furniture and grain she could gather put into an ox cart drawn by two yoke of oxen, and
started for Redding, where she owned land in her own right. She followed on horseback,
carrying her two children in her arms. At the close of the war, Thomas joined his wife in
Redding, where they continued to reside until death.
Source: History of Redding Connecticut

Thomas married Sarah NASH on 2 Apr 1772. Sarah (daughter of Jonathan Nathan Nash and Sarah Andrews) was born on 17 Jan 1755. [Group Sheet]

Thomas married Elizabeth JESSUP on 22 Feb 1749/50 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT. [Group Sheet]

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Christened:
History of Fairfield, V2, First Extant Parish Record of Christ's Church, Fairfield, p.482

Died:
History of Fairfield, CT 1700-1800, p.398

Jonathan married Sarah Andrews on 14 Mar 1754. Sarah (daughter of Deacon John Andrews, III and Sarah Couch) was born on 06 Aug 1731 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT. [Group Sheet]

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Birth:
Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906

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Married:
History of Fairfield, CT 1700-1800, Vol. I, p.398

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Christening: 3 MAY 1696 Fairfield, CT
Note:
Aged 40y 9m 22d, from gravestone.

The will reference in this note mentions unnamed slaves.

Will 6 Dec 1735, codicil 2 Feb 1735/6, proved 20 Apr 1736.
Wife Sarah; sons Thomas, Simon; daughters Sarah and Ann Couch; Negros; mentions
brother Simon's homelot. Dower in estate of Thomas Sr., was ordered
distributed, 13 June 1765, to his widow, Sarah Keeler of Ridgefield.

All information from:
"History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield"
by Donald Lines Jacobus, Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter DAR, Fairfield, CT, 1930.
Allen Co. Public Library, Ft. Wayne, IN. Gc 974.602 F161j

Thomas married Sarah Allen on 7 Dec 1721 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT. Sarah (daughter of Dr. Gideon Allen, II and Anna Burr) was born on 1 Apr 1697 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT; died on 10 Mar 1787 in Ridgefield, Fairfield Co, CT; was buried in Titicus Cemetery, Ridgefield, Fairfield Co, CT. [Group Sheet]

Thomas married Sarah wife of Capt. Thomas Nash. Sarah died on 20 Feb 1760. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Christened:
History of Fairfield, V1, Genealogies, p.350

Name:
Click Here to View Information about John Andrews, son of Francis Andrews, and his namesake descendants named John. Clarification of which John is which, and of known and/or obvious errors in genealogy and history resource compilations, giving appropriate birth, marriage and death information as available for each with source citations for each piece of data provided. There were five generations of John Andrews as a continuous lineage.

John married Sarah Couch on 28 Oct 1730. Sarah (daughter of Simon Couch, II and Abigail Sturgis) was born on 30 Mar 1706; was christened on 12 May 1706 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT; died on 9 Mar 1783; was buried in Colonial Cemetery, Westport, Fairfield Co, CT. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Christening: 12 MAY 1706 Fairfield, CT

Buried:
Plot 270

Notes:

All information from:
"History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield"
by Donald Lines Jacobus, Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter DAR, Fairfield, CT, 1930.
Allen Co. Public Library, Ft. Wayne, IN. Gc 974.602 F161j

Birth:
Although information extant on Simon, son of Simon Couch born 1633, suggests this son Simon was born in 1669, the 1687 will of Simon (born 1633) gives Simon as the second son. Therefore, he is placed here in that birth order without a birthdate given.

Died:
Simon Couch II - Will 2 Mar 1712/13, probated 7 Apr 1712/13. (History of Fairfield, Vol.1, p.365)

Simon married Abigail Sturgis. Abigail (daughter of John STURGIS and Deborah BARLOW) was born in 1673 in Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT; died on 14 Sep 1730 in Westport, Fairfield Co, CT; was buried in Colonial Cemetery, Westport, Fairfield Co, CT. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Renewed her Covenant at Fairfield Church, 3 May 1696.

Will of Abigail Andrews, 7 Feb 1729/30, proved 22 Sep 1730; daughters Abigail
edwards, Hannah Osborn, Sarah Couch, Isabel Rumsey, Deborah Couch; sons Thomas
and Simon Couch.

All information from:
"History & Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield"
by Donald Lines Jacobus, Eunice Dennie Burr Chapter DAR, Fairfield, CT, 1930.
Allen Co. Public Library, Ft. Wayne, IN. Gc 974.602 F161j


Name:
(also recorded as Abigail Harges, "New England Marriages Prior to 1700")

Buried:
Plot 22

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Married:
Renewed covenant, May 3, 1696, Fairfield, Fairfield Co, CT

Gideon married Anna Burr. Anna (daughter of Nathaniel Burr, II) was born in Jan 1696. [Group Sheet]

John married Elizabeth on 22 Aug 1677. [Group Sheet]

Notes:

Name:
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John married Eleanor Burr. Eleanor was born on 26 Oct 1680. [Group Sheet]