History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 862, Pleasant Township
Lewis Rouch was born in Maryland June 9, 1833; came to Illinois
in 1864; first married Tabitha Smith, in 1868, who was born in this
State in 1841; they had 4 children, - Lewis E., Thomas, Nathaniel H.
and Salina (dec.); then married Nancy Weese in 1866, who was born in
Illinois in 1845. Mr. Rouch has always been a farmer, and now owns 80
acres of land worth $50 an acre. Reformed Church. P. O., Duncan’s Mills.
Note: My records state: Lewis Rauch married May 22, 1867 in
Fulton County, Illinois to Tabitha Smith and on Nov. 30, 1865 in Fulton
County, Illinois to Nancy C. Weese.
