Joseph Samuel Couch and Mary Elizabeth Shoup

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Husband Joseph Samuel Couch ¹

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           Born: 11 Nov 1854 - Cambria Co, PA 1
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         Father: Shadrick S. Couch (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Carolina Williams (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 5 Feb 1877 - Kaylor, Armstrong Co, PA 1

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Wife Mary Elizabeth Shoup ¹

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         Father: William McKenzie Shoup (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Mary Ellen Sackazar (      -1875) 1

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Children

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1 M Elmo E. Couch ¹

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           Born: 1878 1
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         Spouse: Effie Sweitzer (      -      ) 1

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2 M Harry Vernon Couch ¹

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           Born: 6 Jul 1880 - Parkers Landing, Armstrong Co, PA 1
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           Died: 1931
         Buried:  - Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, Venango Co, PA

         Spouse: Ethel May Carson (1881-1951)
           Marr: 6 Oct 1908 - Oil City, Venango Co, PA 2

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General Notes: Husband - Joseph Samuel Couch

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He was born in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, and accompanied his parents to Oil City, Venango County, in 1862. He received practically all of his schooling there, and was but sixteen years old when he ventured into oil production, beginning on the Galley farm, one mile from the mouth of the Clarion River. Continuing to operate in that field successfully for twelve years, he sold out eventually at a handsome profit and in 1884 returned to Oil City, where he became a broker on the Oil Exchange. He became one of its prominent members, being one of the active figures on the floor for a number of years, during which time he had the ups and downs typical of the business, making and losing several comfortable fortunes. He carried on his transactions at the Exchange up to 1896 or later, and at the same time acquired valuable interests as a producer, having holdings in the Franklin heavy oil district and in the gray sand field north of Cooperstown, as well as on Kane run, north of Kaneville. His home was in Oil City, where he was associated with Trinity M. E. Church, the Royal Arcanum and the Masons (blue lodge). Like his father, he was a Republican in political principle.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Elizabeth Shoup

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from Franklin, Venango Co, PA

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 999.

2 Venango Co, PA, Marriage License, #8338.