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Daniel Crouse

1832 – 1865

Birth	1832
Death	1865
Cemetery	Jacob A Crouse Family Cemetery Twin Oaks , Alleghany County , North Carolina , USA
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/132123552

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Daniel Crouse, b. abt. 1832, Ashe Co., NC; d. late 1865, Alleghany Co., NC; Married Elizabeth MOXLEY, daughter of Zachariah MOXLEY & Susanna WAGONER (b. abt. 1832; d. aft. 1866). Daniel Crouse was one of several men in Alleghany County reportedly killed by "bushwhackers" near the end of the Civil War. See book "Mountain Mourning" by Cyrus Stoneman (2007). MORE NOTES October 1864 during a fight that broke out at Killen's or Killian's Branch near Sparta. According Dr. A.B. Cox, Footprints in the Sands of Time (1900) The other men killed at Killen's Branch were Capt Maxwell, Martin CROUSE, Felix REEVES, and Jesse REEVES. (See John Preston Arthur, Western North Carolina: A History (1914) Ch. XXVII, p.616). Although "bushwhackers" have long been blamed for the killings, some researchers believe that the fighting involved residents of the county who had reached a stage of violent disagreement over whether support for the war should continue. Additional information about this family comes from Alleghany County Heritage (1983), pp.131, 327. Lorene Sturgill in HOPPER MOXLEY BOOK says Daniel was hung by the Home Guard as CSA deserter and that his nephew was forced to take the body for burial Believed to be buried here in unmarked grave with parents. Children Caroline Rosamond/Roseanne Susan Emmaline His wife Elizabeth remarried in Grundy Co Iowa after the Civil War to a Wilborn Billings also from NC about 1870. One of her daughters may have married a William Billings soon after. Elizabeth is reportedly buried at the Survey Cemetery in Woodston, KS.

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Family

Parents

• Jacob A. Crouse 1792–1859
• Nancy Fender Crouse 1796–1854

Spouse

• Elizabeth "Betsy" Moxley Billings 1832–1866 FaG
• Elizabeth "Betsy" Moxley Billings 1833–1901 FaG

Siblings

• Elizabeth Sarah Crouse Wolfe 1817–1881
• John Crouse 1824–1858
• Martin C. Crouse 1828–1910
• Sarah "Sallie" Crouse Willey 1832–1850
• Susanna Crouse Joines 1833–1881
• Nancy Crouse Spurlin 1835–1924
• Solomon Crouse 1845–1863

Children

• Caroline Cynthia Crouse Kirkman Hites 1851–1923 FaG
• Emaline Crouse 1854–? FaG
• Rosan Crouse 1856–? FaG
• Susan Crouse 1858–? FaG

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