Judith (Westfall) Crouch (1754 - 1841)

Born 12 Oct 1754 in Hardy, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Andrew Crouch — married about 1772 (to 1781) in Hampshire, Virginia

Descendants

Died 6 Oct 1841 at age 86 in Huttonsville, Randolph, Virginia, United States

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Judith (Westfall) Crouch lived in Virginia.

Biography

Judith was born in 1754 to Jacob Westfall (also spelled Westvaal) and Judith Hornbeck in Hardy, Colony of Virginia. She was married twice.

First Marriage: She married Andrew Crouch in 1772 in Hampshire County, Virginia. They had at least four children (three survived to adulthood).

Children:

1. Major John Crouch (1773-1859)
2. Jacob Crouch (1776-1860)
3. Andrew Crouch Jr (1780-1873)
4. Unidentified daughter Crouch

Second Marriage: Her husband passed away about 1781. She remarried to Jonathon “John” Crouch (a relative of her first husband) about 1788 in Randolph, Virginia. They had a daughter:

1. Elizabeth Crouch b. 1789.

Judith passed away in 1841 in Huttonsville, Randolph, Virginia.

Unidentified Daughter:
“It is now known there was another child, unidentified, who was the speculated daughter of Andrew and Judith. To be clear, Andrew died anywhere from late 1780 when the last written record is found for him in November of 1780, when his signature is found on a petition to the Lesgislature in Augusta, Virginia to form a new county. In a special census for 1782 and 1785, as well as tax lists for the same years, Andrew's widow, Judith is listed ad head of household with 4 children, many researchers assumed the 4th child was daughter Elizabeth, however, Elizabeth was not born until 1789, so there was an additional unidentified daughter.”….. excerpted

Notations on Andrew Crouch and Judith (Westfall) Crouch:
“ Jacob and Judith (Hornbeck) Westfall's daughter Judith Westfall was born on October 12, 1754 in Frederick (now Hardy Co. (WVA), and died October 6, 1841 in Huttonsville, Randolph County, in what is currently West Virginia. She married Andrew Crouch in 1772 at Ft Pleasant, Hampshire Co. WVA. He was born 5 Sep 1750 Frederick (now Hardy) Co. WVA. He died 26 Jul 1780 at Huttonsville, Randolph Co. WVA. He was a son of John Crouch Sr. and his wife Mary (maiden name unknown). John Crouch Sr. was born in 1728 in Somerset, MD, and died in 1800 in Ross Co., OH. John Crouch Sr. was an early settler and pioneer in that part of Randolph County that later became Tucker County, WVA. The John Crouch cabin stood a half mile from the forks of the Cheat River, and a half mile from the city of Parsons, in Blackman Flats. The West Virginia Historical Marker, located near the South intersection of First and Main Streets in Parsons reads: "John Crouch, pioneer settler, established "tomahawk rights" here in 1766.".….excerpted

Sources

• Walter Westfall, "Westfall Genealogy" (http://members.tripod.com/~w-westfall/relfam8.html).

• State Enumeration for Monongalia County, Va; Library of Virginia: Lists Andrew Crouch's widow, Judith as head of household with 4 children., 1782.

• Ancestors and Descendants of Thomas Jefferson Crouch, by Mary Stepenson Sailors, page 19.