Robert Bennett Crouch

Robert Bennett Crouch was born 3 December 1892 at Mt.

Sterling, Kentucky, and died 15 April 1969. His father, Isaac

Breckenridge Crouch, from Bourbon County, Kentucky, brought

the first registered saddle horses to Oklahoma in 1896. In 1913,

Bennett Crouch of Vinita, Oklahoma, moved to Fayetteville,

Arkansas, to train and show horses for Edward Orn (on the

present Paul Martin farm). Bennett was a farmer and stockman,

and one of the organizers of The Farm Bureau, where he was on

the board of directors. He also served as a director of the Meadow

Valley School. Obviously, the 8 December 1915 marriage of

Bennett Crouch and Lottie Lee Moore was a good union, and

their family helped them celebrate their Golden Anniversary in

1965. They spent all their married 'lives on the same farm, where

their seven Crouch children were born: Mildred Lee born 28

July 1917 and died 26 February 1937; Joe Bennett born 30 May

1921, married Christine Allen and had Joe Bennett and Allen

Oliver; Mary Carolyn born 12 November 1923, married Zara Lee

Thomas and had Carolyn Lee, Michael, Joe, and Gerald Dale;

Robert Henry born 31 December 1925, married Virginia Smith

and had Robert W. and Marilyn Kay; Patricia Lucille born 29

May 1929, married H. Dean Browner and had Donna Jean,

Nancy Ellen, and Janet Kay; Kathryn Nan born 12 August 1933

and died 30 October 1933; and Charlotte Sue born 20 March

1935 and died 28 October 1935. The three oldest surviv

Crouch children still live here, their grandchildren comprising

the seventh generation of the Moore family to live in Washington

County.

By: Patricia (Crouch) Browner