The following was posted by Ronald Gene Couch on the www.genforum.com Couch forum.  Ron and his family have been researching the Jacob Couch line for many, many years and most of the information I have on Couch ancestry comes from this family.

"Jacob Couch was born unknown, and died 1797, in Greene County, Tennessee.

Notes for Jacob Couch:

He left a will in 1797 in Greene Co, TN, leaving everything to his children: land, home, slaves, and other articles. His wife was deceased.

Jacob's original log cabin is still standing in Greeneville, Greene County. Built by, at least, 1735, it is surrounded by a fence to protect it from souvenier hunters. It is called, erroneously, the "Cabin of Three States," signifying that it has stood within the boundaries of shifting state lines on three occasions. Actually, if it is Jacob's cabin, it should be the "Cabin of Five States." The area, when Jacob and John are first recorded as living along Gap Creek, was listed as part of Pennsylvania. Subsequently, though it was only moved once, it stood in North Carolina, Virginia, the aborted state of Franklin, and, finally, Tennessee. The one occasion of it's movement was at the time when "Franklin" was established, and, since the cabin was not within the new state border, Jacob and his many sons dismantled it, moved it a short distance, and, finally, it had a Franklin location. It is "said" that persons are interred there near the cabin, but, unless it is the bodies of Jacob and his wife, everyone else is accounted for in the family cemetery, and they are probably burial places for slaves.

One of the favorite Couch stories was to tell of Daniel Boone's discovery of Tennessee. They would say, "Dan'l come in to discover us, and we was there to shake his hand and set him down to supper." It's a highly apocryphal story, of course, but does indicate that they were aware that they were, if not the first, then, among the earliest settlers of the region."

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