Virginia Lee Crouch

Brief Life History of Virginia Lee

When Virginia Lee Crouch was born on 24 November 1865, in Huttonsville, Randolph, West Virginia, United States, her father, John Marshall Crouch, was 51 and her mother, Mary Jane See, was 37. She married Asbury Taylor Pritt on 22 October 1884, in Oakland, Garrett, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Randolph, West Virginia, United States in 1870. She died on 3 February 1915, in Huttonsville, Randolph, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 49, and was buried in Huttonsville, Randolph, West Virginia, United States.

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Family Time Line

Asbury Taylor Pritt
1856–1950
Virginia Lee Crouch
1865–1915
Marriage: 22 October 1884
Dellas Marstiller Pritt
1885–1964
Pritt
1887–1888
Barbara Harness Pritt
1890–1972
Nancy Willa Pritt
1893–1964
Irvin Independence Pritt
1896–1918

Sources (9)

  • Virginia Lee Crouch in household of John M Crouch, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Virginia Lee Crouch Pritt, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Virginia Crouch in entry for Willa Nancy Snyder, "West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999"

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Name Meaning

English (southeastern): from Middle English crouch(e), cruch(e) ‘cross’ (Old English crūc, ultimately from Latin crux, crucem; the Old English crūc was replaced in Middle English by the word cross, from Old Norse kross), applied as a topographic name for someone who lived by a cross.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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