The Couch surname

In the chronology 11 people

The people of this surname named in the county’s dated events, as the names index lists them. Each printed name is its own heading; names that may be one person are not merged.

• Couch, Darius N. 1 entry, 1865
  • May 5, 1865: General Couch leads 12,000 Union troops through Chapel Hill
• Couch, John 4 entries, 1910–1942
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  • about 1910: Brothers John and Page Couch add a frame front to a log house on Cornwallis Road
  • 1928: Botanist John Couch builds an Elizabethan Revival house on Ridge Road
  • September 23, 1942: Dynamite blasts at the University's new athletic field shower stones on nearby homes
  • about 1942: A filling station is built at 212 North Churton Street
• Couch, John N. 8 entries, 1920–1982
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• Couch, John N. 1 entry, 1940
  • March to July 1940: UNC Press editor William Couch builds a brick and stone house on Laurel Hill Road
• Couch, Nancy 1 entry, 1850
  • August Term 1850: The court undoes William Couch's binding within the term and returns him to his mother
• Couch, Page 1 entry, 1910
  • about 1910: Brothers John and Page Couch add a frame front to a log house on Cornwallis Road
• Couch, Samuel 1 entry, 1848
  • 1848: Samuel Couch builds a two-story hall-parlor farmhouse near Durham
• Couch, W. T. 1 entry, 1935
  • October 1935: The Bull's Head Bookshop moves into the University Library basement
• Couch, William 4 entries, 1830–1940
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  • about 1830: A log homestead is built on the later William Couch farm
  • August Term 1850: The court undoes William Couch's binding within the term and returns him to his mother
  • about 1867: Civil War veteran William Couch builds a frame farmhouse east of Hillsborough
  • March to July 1940: UNC Press editor William Couch builds a brick and stone house on Laurel Hill Road
• Couch, William T. 16 entries, 1922–1946
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• Couch, William T. 2 entries, 1936–1972
  • January 1936: The Southern Committee for People's Rights starts its People's Rights Bulletin in Chapel Hill
  • October 12, 1972: N. Ferebee Taylor is installed as chancellor on University Day

In books and archives 3 headings

Subject headings from the library catalogs Orange County Indexed gathers. A family heading collects genealogies and family papers; a person heading, the works about that person.

• Couch family family, 1 work
• Couch, William T. (William Terry), 1901-1988 7 works
• Couch, Thurman 1 work

In the historical records 336 records

104 deeds, 7 records of enslaved people, 88 marriages, 112 court minutes, 12 tax list entries and 13 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Couch marriages in full · Search the name in every collection