Goodspeed’s Biography of John Absolum Couch
Source: Goodspeed’s History of Lawrence, Wayne, Perry, Hickman, and Lewis Counties Tennessee, published 1886 John A. Couch, son of Thomas and Charity Couch, was born in Lauderdale County, Ala., December 19, 1848. The father came to Tennessee in 1865, and settled on a farm. He died in 1875, and his wife in 1883. John A. resided with his father on the farm until twenty years of age, when he became the architect of his own fortunes and chose the free…