Crouch, Benjamin T, Sr

Crouch, Benjamin T., Sr.

a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, was born in New Castle County, Delaware, July 1, 1796. He joined the Church in 1816; received license to exhort in 1818; and in 1819 was licensed to preach, and admitted into the Ohio Conference. On the formation of the Kentucky Conference, in 1820, he became one of its members. He took a superannuate relation in 1827, re-entered the effective ranks in 1830, and continued faithful until 1856, when he again became a superannuate and took charge of a school at Goshen, Oldham County, Kentucky, where he died, April 26, 1858. See Minutes of Annual Conferences of the M.E. Church South, 1858, page 3.