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The eldest child of Meshach H. and Mary Bryan Couch, William Lewis Couch was born November 20, 1850, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. After the end of the Civil War M. H. Couch moved the family to Kansas, where William grew to manhood. While receiving only a rudimentary education, he was always an avid reader. Couch married his sweetheart, Cynthia Gordon, a Quaker eight years his senior. In 1871 the couple located in Butler County near Douglass, Kansas, where they purchased a farm. After the railroad extended its lines from Emporia to Wichita, Couch followed the line and took advantage of many business opportunities. He became a fixture in the Wichita business community after 1874, selling grain, operating an elevator, trading and selling horses and mules, and running a combination hardware and grocery store. But a change in markets coupled with other financial setbacks cost him much of his hard-earned fortune. After losing the grocery store and paying many of his outstanding debts, he was financially depleted, but he still adequately provided for his family, deriving a steady income from the livestock business.∼Info. per Interment Records: Cause of Death: Gunshot, Married, He is listed just after Charles. Parent: Meshack. It also appears that William may have been buried on private property/farm, & Interred in the cemetery on Mar. 4, 1893. A lot of people where re-interred from private lands as the city grew. They are in the same lot & Block.
The eldest child of Meshach H. and Mary Bryan Couch, William Lewis Couch was born November 20, 1850, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. After the end of the Civil War M. H. Couch moved the family to Kansas, where William grew to manhood. While receiving only a rudimentary education, he was always an avid reader. Couch married his sweetheart, Cynthia Gordon, a Quaker eight years his senior. In 1871 the couple located in Butler County near Douglass, Kansas, where they purchased a farm. After the railroad extended its lines from Emporia to Wichita, Couch followed the line and took advantage of many business opportunities. He became a fixture in the Wichita business community after 1874, selling grain, operating an elevator, trading and selling horses and mules, and running a combination hardware and grocery store. But a change in markets coupled with other financial setbacks cost him much of his hard-earned fortune. After losing the grocery store and paying many of his outstanding debts, he was financially depleted, but he still adequately provided for his family, deriving a steady income from the livestock business.∼Info. per Interment Records: Cause of Death: Gunshot, Married, He is listed just after Charles. Parent: Meshack. It also appears that William may have been buried on private property/farm, & Interred in the cemetery on Mar. 4, 1893. A lot of people where re-interred from private lands as the city grew. They are in the same lot & Block.
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The eldest child of Meshach H. and Mary Bryan Couch, William Lewis Couch was born November 20, 1850, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. After the end of the Civil War M. H. Couch moved the family to Kansas, where William grew to manhood. While receiving only a rudimentary education, he was always an avid reader. Couch married his sweetheart, Cynthia Gordon, a Quaker eight years his senior. In 1871 the couple located in Butler County near Douglass, Kansas, where they purchased a farm. After the railroad extended its lines from Emporia to Wichita, Couch followed the line and took advantage of many business opportunities. He became a fixture in the Wichita business community after 1874, selling grain, operating an elevator, trading and selling horses and mules, and running a combination hardware and grocery store. But a change in markets coupled with other financial setbacks cost him much of his hard-earned fortune. After losing the grocery store and paying many of his outstanding debts, he was financially depleted, but he still adequately provided for his family, deriving a steady income from the livestock business.∼Info. per Interment Records: Cause of Death: Gunshot, Married, He is listed just after Charles. Parent: Meshack. It also appears that William may have been buried on private property/farm, & Interred in the cemetery on Mar. 4, 1893. A lot of people where re-interred from private lands as the city grew. They are in the same lot & Block.
The eldest child of Meshach H. and Mary Bryan Couch, William Lewis Couch was born November 20, 1850, in Wilkes County, North Carolina. After the end of the Civil War M. H. Couch moved the family to Kansas, where William grew to manhood. While receiving only a rudimentary education, he was always an avid reader. Couch married his sweetheart, Cynthia Gordon, a Quaker eight years his senior. In 1871 the couple located in Butler County near Douglass, Kansas, where they purchased a farm. After the railroad extended its lines from Emporia to Wichita, Couch followed the line and took advantage of many business opportunities. He became a fixture in the Wichita business community after 1874, selling grain, operating an elevator, trading and selling horses and mules, and running a combination hardware and grocery store. But a change in markets coupled with other financial setbacks cost him much of his hard-earned fortune. After losing the grocery store and paying many of his outstanding debts, he was financially depleted, but he still adequately provided for his family, deriving a steady income from the livestock business.∼Info. per Interment Records: Cause of Death: Gunshot, Married, He is listed just after Charles. Parent: Meshack. It also appears that William may have been buried on private property/farm, & Interred in the cemetery on Mar. 4, 1893. A lot of people where re-interred from private lands as the city grew. They are in the same lot & Block.
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