Isaac Newton Crouch

When Isaac Newton Crouch was born on March 27, 1851, in Milburnton, Greene County, Tennessee, his father, James, was 30 and his mother, Alvina, was 27. He married Susannah Belle Gillum on December 28, 1890, in Pope, Arkansas. They had four children (including Thomas Newton Crouch) in 18 years. He died on June 29, 1912, in Oklahoma at the age of 61.

Isaac was the fifth child born to James Monroe Crouch and Alvina Jane Milburn. His older siblings were William A (b. 1841), Joseph Larkin (b1844), Sarah E. (b.1846), and Archibald Frame (b.1847).

His sister Martha J was born in 1853 in Tennessee when Isaac Newton was 2 years old.

His sister Mary Ellen was born in 1855 in Tennessee when Isaac Newton was 4 years old.

His brother Elbert Franklin was born on February 17, 1859, in Tennessee when Isaac Newton was 7 years old.

Isaac Newton Crouch lived in family 19 in District 15, Greene County, Tennessee, in the 1860 US Census.

Isaac Newton Crouch’s maternal grandmother (Martha Anne Milburn nee Frame) died on 11 February 1861.

On 19 Sep 1861 Isaac Newton Crouch’s maternal grandfather, William Elbert Milburn married Sarah Ann Creamer.

By the 24 Apr 1862 Issac Newton Crouch was living near Dalton, Whitfield County, Georgia. On this day his older brothers William A Crouch and Joseph Larkin Crouch enlisted in Company H of the Georgia 36th Infantry Regiment (Broyles).

in July 1863 Isaac’s brothers William and Joseph are captured at Vicksburg and then paroled. They disappear prior to the end of the war and are presumed to have died later.

Isaac’s sister Melissa Caroline “Callie” was born in January 1864 in Georgia when Isaac Newton was 12 years old.

Isaac Newton Crouch is living in Militia District 631 in Whitfield County during the 1870 US Census.

Isaac Newton Crouch is living in Gregory, Conway County, Arkansas in Whitfield County during the 1880 US Census. Family rumor has it that about this time he was asked if he would ever get married. He pointed to a nearby 8 year old girl and said when she turns 18 he will marry her. They did get married 10 years later.

His sister Mary Ellen died in 1888 when Isaac Newton was 37 years old.

Isaac Newton Crouch married Susannah Belle Gillum in Pope, Arkansas, on December 28, 1890, when he was 39 years old.

His son William Monroe Crouch was born on January 16, 1892, in Arkansas.

His daughter Theo Myrtle Crouch was born on August 5, 1895, in Arkansas.

Isaac’s mother Alvina Jane Crouch (nee Milburn) passed away on July 9, 1898, in Whitfield, Georgia, at the age of 74. She was buried in the Dawneville Cemetery.

Isaac and Belle’s son Thomas Newton Crouch was born on July 19, 1900, in Atkins, Pope County, Arkansas.

Isaac’s father James Monroe Crouchpassed away sometime soon after October 11, 1904, in Whitfield, Georgia, at the age of 84. he was buried with his first wife, Alvina, in Dawneville Cemetery.

Sometime in the early 1900s Isaac moved his family to Hughes County, Oklahoma along with his in-laws, the Gillum family.

Isaac’s daughter Theo Myrtle passed away on May 28, 1906, in Hughes, Oklahoma, at the age of 10. She was buried in the Gerty Cemetery near the town of Gerty in Hughes County, Oklahoma.

Isaac Newton Crouch lived in Newburg, Hughes County, Oklahoma, in the US Census in 1910.

His son Joseph Ray was born in 1910 in Oklahoma.

Isaac Newton crouch died on June 29, 1912 in Oklahoma after being kicked by a horse the previous day. Family story, from grand daughter Zona, says he was getting horses out of a barn that was on fire when he was kicked by the horse. He was buried in Gerty cemetery near his daughter Theo.