Bureau County IL Archives Biographies.....Couch, B. C.
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Biography of B C COUCH, Bureau County, Illinois

B. C. Couch, Esq., Tiskilwa, was born September 19, 1822, in Boscawen, 
Merrimack Co., N. H.  He is a grandson of Benjamin Couch Sr., a native 
of New Hampshire, and a soldier in the Revolutionary war, participating 
in the battle of Bunker Hill, where he had a bullet shot through his ear. 
He married a Miss Heath, who was the mother of five children. Of these 
Benjamin Couch, Jr. was the father of our subject. He was a farmer by 
occupation, and was a native of New Hampshire, where he died. The mother 
of our subject, Mrs. Sallie (Morse) Couch, was born in Portsmouth, N. H. 
She died January 24, 1866, aged seventy-five years. She was the mother of 
eight children, viz.: Prescott, James S., Amos  A., Plummer, Rachel, 
Benjamin C. (our subject). Harriman and Caleb K. Of these Prescott, 
James S., Plummer and Caleb K. are deceased. Squire Couch was educated 
in his native State. In 1843 he removed to Tazewell County, Ill., and in 
the winter of 1845 to Henry County. In 1851 he came to this county, and 
first settled in Wyanet Township, where he followed the carpenter business 
till 1853, when he removed to Tiskilwa, where he was a grain and lumber 
merchant for fifteen years. Since then he has followed various occupations, 
and filled the office of Township Clerk and Justice of the Peace for many 
years with tact and ability. Mr. Couch was married in Rhode Island to 
Martha J. Caleb, who died in Tiskilwa. She was the mother of nine children, 
viz.: Dion, Cornelia A., Laura and Lucy (twins), Sarah J., Charles S., 
Ilus, Buel and Bias (twins), the latter deceased. Subject’s second wife, 
Lydia M. Peck, died here leaving two children, viz.: Minnie I. And Hattie B. 
At present Mr. Couch is married to Emilie Thompson, a daughter of Daniel 
Thompson, of Bath, Steuben Co., N.Y. Politically, Squire Couch comes from 
the old Underground Abolition stock. At present he is not identified with 
any party.

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