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A. N. Couch

Arthur N. Couch of Forest City, Arkansas served as pastor of the church from July of 1902 to the end of November, 1902 and from January 1903 to later in that same year. At that time, he begged off due to ill health.

He was born in Lincoln County, Tennessee on April 13, 1868 and baptized into the Baptist Church at New Market, Alabama by his father, a Baptist minister. He attended school only a few months each year while a boy, but went on to Jackson University and later graduated from Bethel College. He received a Doctor of Divinity degree from The Peoples National University of Georgia.

For some time he taught school in Tennessee and Kentucky. In 1885, he was licensed to preach by Trenton Baptist Church of Kentucky and ordained by the same church in 1893.

He married Katie J. Smith in 1894 and had six children, three sons and three daughters. His daughters were well known for their singing in churches. He was a pastor for churches in Trenton, Armageddon, Fordsville, Glenville, Sugar Grove, Pleasant Grove, Pleasant Ridge, Seven Hills, Calhoun, Sacramento and Maceo in Kentucky; Ringgold and Dixon in Tennessee; Center, Texas; Colquitt and Haynesville, Louisiana and Vandalia, Bloomfield, LaMont and LaBeier, Missouri. He served as moderator, clerk and assistant clerk of the Daviess-McLean Association of Kentucky and was well known as an evangelist.

Dr. Couch baptized over one thousand persons and authored a booklet on tithing before suffering what was known as a nervous breakdown in 1928. 31

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