Elisha Tompkins Couch, 1820-1896, parents and siblings

Elisha Thompkins Couch 1820-1896

My second great-grandfather, Elisha Tompkins Couch, was born in Green's Corner, Oneida County, New York on 14 April 1820 according to Find a Grave. E.T. was married to Jane Angeline Dunham on 24 December 1846 in Oneida County, New York, according to family notes. At this time, May 2020, I am unable to verify this with county records. E. T. died 6 December 1896 in Seneca, LaSalle County, Illinois. He is buried in Mt Hope Cemetery, Seneca, Illinois.








Since the early 1990s, I have been searching for his parents and siblings. Thank you to DNA, I have connected with several descendants of his siblings. In February while researching and expressing my frustration at my family searches at the Family History Library, Lawrenceville, Georgia, Oria Kelly asked for family information. Within a very short time, Oria Kelly found a newspaper interview with Julia Couch Fraser. The full interview is in the Rome Daily Sentinel newspaper found on The Old Fulton New York Post Cards site.  Below is a small part of the full article.

Using this newspaper article, I have attempted to reconstruct my direct line ancestor to his parents and siblings. For the full details, see my tree Roots Digger (Under Construction) on Ancestry and Roots Digger2020 on MyHeritage.

E T Couch parents: Elisha Couch, about 1776 - 1854 and Lucy Loveland 1778 - 1853, dates need verification.

E T Couch siblings:

Sophia, 1802-1879

Nancy Ann 1804-1840

Solomon 1805-

Elisha 1808-1808

Joab 1809-

Jemima 1811-1900

Lucy 1812-

Joel 1813-

Julia A 1816-1911

Sarah 1818-1910

Adelia 1822-1910

More information and my sources are on my trees. This is only my research, please share your thoughts.  PLEASE, I would like to share with any family member that has photos or documents or stories on these family members. Thank you!!! Happy tree climbing and roots digging, Selma

Black Sheep Sunday - Atlanta Federal Prison

PRISON DOORS SHUT IN EARNEST
Six Prisoners Entered Federal Prison Yesterday.
Two of Them on Whom the Steel Door Shut Are Past Sixty-Five Years of Age-Both Sentenced for Pension Fraud.
 The first prisoners to pass through the steel door of the new federal prison went in yesterday afternoon. The men-six in number-were under the watchful eye of Chief Deputy Marshal J.H. Rinard.
 Two of the prisoners,m whose ages made them particularly noticeable, were G.W. Clarke, an white man, 65 years old, and Caesar Davis, a negro, who has recently passed the prescribed limit of three score and ten years. The two old men are serving sentences of five years each for violating the United States pension law. The prisoners transferred to the new prison yesterday began serving their sentences in the Fulton county jail, as the new prison was not ready for occupancy at the time of their conviction, which was at the October term of the United States court before Judge Newman. The other lawbreakers transferred to the new prison yesterday were R.D. Stallings, of Carroll county, who will serve a five years' sentence for counterfeiting. Handy Middlebrook, a negro, will serve three years for a similar offense. John Sanford, convicted of robbing a postoffice, will serve three years and J.H Henson and Oscar Bishop will serve fifteen months each for making "moonshine" whisky.
 Davis is the only one of the prisoners received yesterday whose home is in this county.
 United States Marshal Walter Johnson received a message yesterday stating that the federal prison was ready for the reception of prisoners. He notified Warden Hawk, who had the seven federal prisoners in his charge, to remove them to the new prison. None of the prisoners expressed any dissatisfaction at the change of quarters.
 There was no formal ceremony at the opening of the new prison. A deputy marshal, under instructions from Marshal Johnson's office, brought the prisoners to the new prison, where they were assigned to their respective cells without delay.

source citation:
"PRISON DOORS SHUT IN EARNEST," news, The Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, 31 January 1902, six prisoners entered federal prison yesterday; online image, Ancestry.com (search.ancestryinstitution.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=6789&path=1902.1.31.5 : accessed 7 August 2012).