Rachel Crouch

Brief Life History of Rachel

When Rachel Crouch was born in 1869, in Indiana, United States, her father, James Crouch, was 51 and her mother, Elizabeth Simmons, was 45.

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Family Time Line

James Crouch
1819–1870
Elizabeth Simmons
1824–
Hiram E. Crouch
1839–1912
James Crouch
1841–
Jacob Crouch
1844–1853
Mason Crouch
1850–1906
Mary Ann Crouch
1852–
Joseph Crouch
1856–1899
Sarah Ann Crouch
1857–1922
Winfield Scott Crouch
1861–1906
David Crouch
1865–1892
John W Crouch
1868–
Rachel Crouch
1869–

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    World Events (3)

    1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

    Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

    1870 · Giving all the right to vote

    The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.

    1906 · Gary, Indiana, Is Founded

    The town of Gary, Indiana, was founded by the United States Steel Corporation in 1906. The Gary Works steel mill was the largest integrated mill in North America. The city of Gary was named after Elbert Henry Gary who was the founding chairman of the United States Steel Corporation and American lawyer and county judge. Gary partnered with J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, and Charles M. Schwab to found the United States Steel Corporation.

    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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