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Portions of the text that follow, are from the Christlieb-Chrislip-Crislip Family Association-sponsored history
and genealogy publication, Ancestors and Descendants of Friedrich Carl and Anna Catharina Christlieb.

Catherine Crouser

1817–1904

Catherine Crouser, born April 1817; died 6 March 1904, Columbus, Ohio; married George W. Thompson. Catherine Crouser Thompson died at the home of her daughter Mary Mossman. In 1824, at age 7, it was recorded that “On motion of the Overseers of the Poor ordered that Catharine Crouser, an infant, [meaning a young child] was bound to Samuel D. Hall until age 18 to learn the art and mystery of a spinstress...” October 18, 1824, p. 229: Harrison County Minute Book, 1823-1825.


Children of Catherine Crouser and George W. Thompson

  • Rachel Thompson (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Elizabeth Crislip3, Catherine Crouser4) [139], born 1842.

  • Albert J. Thompson (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Elizabeth Crislip3, Catherine Crouser4) [139], born 1843. At age 18, Albert enlisted in the Confederacy on 14 May 1861. He was a member of Company H, 31st Virginia Infantry. During his service he was promoted to the rank of Corporal. Albert was captured by Union forces in Pocahontas County (West) Virginia on April 24, 1862. He and other prisoners of war were shipped to a prison camp at Camp Chase in Columbus, Ohio. The 2005 publication, “Union and Confederate Soldiers and Sympathizers of Barbour County, West Virginia,” contains an entry on Catherine’s oldest son, Albert J. Thompson. Albert died of consumption at Camp Chase in June 1862.

  • Noah Thompson (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Elizabeth Crislip3, Catherine Crouser4) [140], born 1845; died 24 August 1930, Columbus, Ohio; married, 21 December 1871, Cordelia O’Day; died 30 March 1905. Both are buried in Otterbein Cemetery, Prospect Township, Marion County, Ohio.

  • Martha Thompson (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Elizabeth Crislip3, Catherine Crouser4) [140], born 1850.

  • Mary Thompson (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Elizabeth Crislip3, Catherine Crouser4) [140], born 1853, Philippi, West Virginia; died 6 November 1911; married, February 1877, Darwin W. Mossman. Ohio marriage records show that Mary Thompson and Darwin W. Mossman married in Delaware County, Ohio on February 8, 1877. (Delaware County is immediately north of Franklin County, where Columbus is located. Mary Mossman died on November 6, 1911. The 1904-1905 Columbus City Directory listed her as Mary Mossman, widow of Darwin W. Mossman, at 45 West 10th Avenue, with a son, Edwin M. Mossman, also in the same household. Her death certificate lists her parents as Catherine Crouso and George W. Thompson and her place of birth as Philippi, (West) Virginia.

  • Almira Thompson (Friedrich Carl Christlieb1, Jacob Christlieb2, Elizabeth Crislip3, Catherine Crouser4) [140], born 1856; died 1909; married Frank Fausnaugh. The couple reportedly had four children, one of which was Mary E. Fausnaugh, born October 1879 in Ohio. Almira Thompson Fausnaugh, had returned from their residence in Findlay, Ohio to live in the Richwood, Ohio area. Almira’s daughter, Mary Ellen Fausnaugh, continued to live in Findlay, where she was employed in the Hancock County Courthouse as a clerk. She never married. Both mother and daughter died in 1909 and are buried in the Clairbourne Cemetery near Richwood.

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