Meriwether-Pike-Spalding County GaArchives Obituaries.....Crouch, Morris Toles April 27, 1927 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Dawn Hill http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002526 January 21, 2007, 3:33 pm The Atlanta Constitution - 28 April 1927 Veteran Dies After Speech to Comrades Griffin, Ga., April 27. - (Special.) Ten minutes after he had told a Memorial day audience Tuesday at Warm Springs, "I am not so much interested in things pertaining to war as I am in the kingdom of God, and I am making my preparations to go there. I hope I will meet my comrades-in-arms on that bright shore." Morris Toles Crouch, 82 year-old Meriwether county Confederate veteran, suffered a stroke paralysis that resulted in his death Wednesday morning. Mr. Crouch had been called on by the chairman of the Memorial day exercises at Warm Springs to make a short talk and his remarks electrified his audience. There was scarcely a dry eye in his audience when he took his seat. After Mr. Crouch had suffered the stroke he was carried to his home in Gay and died there early Wednesday morning. He was one of the most prominent planters in this section of the state. He had been an active member of the Gay Baptist church and was a deacon. He was also prominent in Masonic circles. The funeral services will be held at the Gay Baptist church at 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning. Interment will be at Gay. Mr. Crouch is survived by his widow, three daughters, Mrs. E. C. Thrash and Mrs. W. A. Selman, of Atlanta; Mrs. H. R. Estes, of Gay, and three sons, J. H. Crouch and R. O. Crouch, of Griffin, and Roy Crouch of Gay. Additional Comments: Morris Toles Crouch married Mary Lavonia Strickland. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/meriwether/obits/c/crouch9320ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb