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Winfield Scott Crouse

Birth	:	19 Jul 1852
Death	:	10 Jun 1931
Burial	:	Courtney Baptist Church Cemetery, Yadkinville, Yadkin County, USA
Coordinate	:	36.0575760, -80.6197040
Description	:	Past and Present of Dallas County, Iowa Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1907 One of the attractive features in the landscape of Colfax township is the fine farm of Winfield S. Crouse, who has one hundred and sixty acres of land divided into fields of convenient size which have been brought under a high state of cultivation. They give promise of golden harvests and the place in all of its appointments is modern and up-to-date. Mr. Crouse is a native of Pennsylvania, having been born in Chester county, that state, on the 19th of July, 1852, one of the ten children... Read More	Past and Present of Dallas County, Iowa Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1907 One of the attractive features in the landscape of Colfax township is the fine farm of Winfield S. Crouse, who has one hundred and sixty acres of land divided into fields of convenient size which have been brought under a high state of cultivation. They give promise of golden harvests and the place in all of its appointments is modern and up-to-date. Mr. Crouse is a native of Pennsylvania, having been born in Chester county, that state, on the 19th of July, 1852, one of the ten children of Jacob and Phoebe D. (Wallerton) Crouse, who were likewise natives of the Keystone state, the former born July 23, 1815, and the latter on the 4th of December, 1814. They were reared in Pennsylvania and in his youth the father learned the blacksmith's trade, which he followed in the east until 1856. That year witnessed his arrival in the Mississippi valley. He took up his abode in Carroll county, Illinois, and abandoning his trade turned his attention to farming, which he followed until 1870. In that year he removed to Iowa, settling on a tract of land of one hundred and sixty acres in Colfax township, Dallas county. Only a small part of this had been placed under the plow. A little house and barn had been built but the farm was largely unimproved, so that there was much arduous labor to be done but Mr. Crouse resolutely took up the work of the farm and transformed the raw prairie into fertile fields, from which he annually gathered good crops. He made that place his home until about four years prior to his death, when he sold the farm and spent his remaining days with his daughter, his wife having previously passed away. Her death occurred in May, 1888, while Mr. Crouse survived for almost fifteen years, departing this life on the 17th of January, 1903. His life was largely a period of unremitting activity and the comfortable competence which he had gained came to him as the reward of earnest and honest labor. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Crouse were born eleven children, of whom two died in infancy, while Quincy A. died at the age of seventeen years. The others are: Levi H., who is living in Colfax township; John J., a resident of Stephenson county, Illinois; C. S., who is living in Adams county, Iowa; Jacob W., who makes his home in Sherman county, Kansas; Winfield S.; Laura C., who is living in Colfax township; and Mrs. Phoebe J. Badger and Louisa C., also of Colfax township. The two who died in infancy were Esther and Mary Ann. Winfield S. Crouse was only four years of age when he was taken by his parents from his native state to Illinois and his early life was spent on the home farm where he worked in the fields and meadows. In the winter months, when the crops were harvested and the labor of the farm was practically over for the year, he attended the common schools and thus acquired a good English education, to which he has added by reading and observation until he is now a well informed man. He continued upon the old homestead with his parents until twenty-seven years of age, accompanying them on their removal to Iowa when he was a youth of eighteen years. He thus aided in the arduous task of developing the new farm here and shared in the hardships and privations of pioneer life which were yet to be met with here at that time. He made purchase of a farm for himself in 1887, when he became owner of one hundred and sixty acres in Colfax township. This had been fenced but otherwise there were no improvements upon it and its splendid condition is due to the labor, enterprise and progressive spirit of Mr. Crouse. In the midst of the farm stands a comfortable residence and nearby are commodious barns and outbuildings for the shelter of grain and stock. He uses the latest improved machinery to facilitate the work of the fields and has good farm animals upon the place. The methods which he follows are practical and at the same time are in keeping with ideas of progressive agriculture. Pleasantly situated in his home life, Mr. Crouse was married to Miss Laura Row, who was born in Washington county, Maryland, June 23, 1856, her parents being Benjamin and Ann (Yeakles) Row, also natives of Maryland who are yet living and are now residents of Dallas Center, Iowa. On leaving the south they removed to Ogle county, Illinois, in 1857, and they resided there for about fourteen years, Mr. Row cultivating a rented farm until 1871, when he came to Dallas county, Iowa. Here he invested his earnings in two hundred and forty acres of land and carried on general farming until 1892, when he sold out and went to California with the intention of making that state his home but found that he preferred Iowa as a place of residence and after one year returned to the middle west, settling at Dallas Center, where he now owns and conducts a lumberyard. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Row were born eight children, five of whom are yet living: Mrs. Mary Folk, who is living in Woodford, Iowa; Mrs. Winfield S. Crouse; Mrs. Emma Ward, whose home is in Dallas Center; John F., who is also living in that place; and Mrs. Annie Rhodes, likewise a resident of Dallas Center. Those of the family now deceased are: Mrs. Jennie Hoff, who died at the age of twenty-nine years; Frank, who died when twenty-four years of age; and Gusta M., who passed away when nineteen years of age. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Crouse have been born four children: Charles C., Samuel B., Phoebe D. and Clara A. The two last named are at home. The older son, Charles C., married Miss Edith Fish, and they have one daughter, Dorothy. Samuel B. wedded Miss Minnie Shade, lives in Minnesota and has three children: Alberta, George R. and Ray. Mr. and Mrs. Winfield S. Crouse are pleasantly located in a comfortable home and in addition to this farm Mr. Crouse also owns ten acres of timber land. He and his wife are faithful and consistent members of the German Baptist church and his political support is given the republican party, of which he is a stalwart advocate. He believes firmly in its principles as conducive to the best interests of the country but he has never been a politician in the sense of office seeking. On the contrary he is distinctively a business man, alert and enterprising, has made good use of his opportunities and has builded the ladder upon which he has mounted to success.

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Winfield Scott Crouse's memorial is located at: Courtney Baptist Church Cemetery, Yadkinville, Yadkin County, USA.
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Latitude: 36.0575760
Longitude: -80.6197040

Family Members:

Parent

Jacob Crouse

(1814 - 1903)

Phebe Dillworth Crouse

(1814 - 1888)

Spouse

Laura Amelia Row Crouse

(1856 - 1940)

Siblings

Levi Henry Crouse

(1839 - 1918)

Clinton Smedley Crouse

(1846 - 1924)

Children

Samuel Badger Crouse

(1881 - 1975)

Clara A Crouse Snyder

(1890 - 1948)

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Nearby Cemetories:

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Coordinate: 36.0575760, -80.6197040

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