MARSHALL COUNTY, TN - BIOGRAPHIES - Samuel A. Crutcher
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SAMUEL A. CRUTCHER, farmer, is a son of Robert and Nancy L. (Childress)
Crutcher, both parents born and reared in Virginia.  The father was born in
1788 and the mother in 1800.  They were united in marriage in 1815, and lived
in Virginia till 1823, when they came to Tennessee and settled in Williamson
County, where they passed the remainder of their days. They reared eleven
children, nine of whom are living at the present time.  The mother died in
1861 and the father in 1866.  Our subject was born October 14, 1818, in
Amherst County, Va., and when five years old came with his parents to
Williamson County.  He received a rather limited education, and at the age of
twenty-one began the free life of a farmer,  In 1843 he married Catherine P.
Blackwell, a native of Kentucky, born February 22, 1822, and the fruits of
this union were an interesting family of ten children, eight of whom are
living.  Having saved his earnings Mr. Crutcher bought a sixty-acre tract of
land, which he afterward sold, and bought the farm of 282 acres where he now
lives, going in debt for nearly all of it.  By hard work and good management
he paid for it in three years.  Mr. Crutcher is a Democrat, and he and wife
are church members, he of the Cumberland Presbyterian and she of the Methodist
Protestant Church.  For twenty-six years he has been a citizen of Marshall
County, and enjoys the confidence and respect of all who know him..

Surnames: Blackwell, Childress, Crutcher
Source:  " The Goodspeeds History of Tennessee, 1886."