Susan Crawford Hightower married 2nd (in 1858) 
Dr. W. Bartley Couch of Spalding Co. and Coweta Co. 
It is the writer's opinion that Susan Crawford Hightower 
Couch should be accepted as a qualifying ancestor for 
membership in the United Daughters of the Confederacy 
and Sons of Confederate Veterans on the strength that 
she bore arms against the Yankee army during the 1864 
invasion of Georgia. When a detachment of Union cavalry 
rode up to her home just north of Mt. Zion Methodist Camp-
ground in Spalding County, she determined to protect her 
home, her children and her servants in the temporary 
absence of her husband, Dr. Couch. She took up a shotgun 
and went out on the front porch of her house to meet the 
enemy. The gun was loaded and she held it aimed at the 
commanding officer of the company. He ordered her to 
put the weapon down, saying that she would be shot if 
she made any resistance to the soldiers. "You may kill me," 
she said, "but I will kill the first man of you who moved to 
dismount his horse." Realizing that she meant her words, 
the officer, after a tense pause, turned and ordered his men 
to ride on. This account was told and documented in the 
annals of the Couch family of Coweta County.

by Historian, Joseph Hightower Moore
 


Senoia City Cemetery Senoia, Georgia
 
"A Confederate Hero"
SUSAN A. COUCH
(1835-1885)
Susan Couch represents the bravery and 
courage of the southern women during the War 
for Southern Independence, 1861-1865. 
For this the ladies of SCV Camp 1729 named 
their auxiliary in her honor.
My she never be forgotten and the cause for 
witch she so bravely defended.
DEC



"If I ever disown, repudiate, or apologize for the Cause 
for which Lee fought and Jackson died, let the lightnings 
of Heaven rend me, and the scorn of all good men and 
true women be my portion. Sun, Moon, Stars, all fall on 
me when I cease to love the Confederacy. 'Tis the cause, 
not the fate of the Cause, that is glorious!" 
                                   --- Maj. R.E. Wilson, CSA


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