DOB:  November 16, 1833 DOD:  October 17, 1917 Age at Enlistment: 27 Date of Enlistment:  May 9, 1861 Place of Enlistment:  Franklin, TN Rank at Enlistment:  Private Rank at Discharge:  Private Casualty:  Severely wounded in the thigh at Chickamauga September 20, 1863. Comments:   William is listed as living in District 5 of Williamson County in 1850 (Bethesda area) and in District 1 (Fairview area) in 1860.  Shortly after his enlistment he is listed as sick at Hot Springs, VA in September and October 1861.  He was wounded in the thigh during the assault on Snodgrass Hill on the second day of the Battle of Chickamauga.  Like many 1st Tennessee soldiers, his last record shows he was present in February 1864.  George Nichols said that he was captured on Hood's Retreat, but there is nothing besides his note to back that up.  He married Mary Hays on March 20, 1866 and the couple had 9 children.  By 1870, he is living in Marshall County and working as a dentist, a career he would keep for the rest of his life.  He is buried in Swanson Cemetery in Chapel Hill, TN.  William died from prostatic hyperplasia (enlarged prostate) in 1917.

Portraits of William Crutcher in later life Courtesy of the Williamson County Heritage Foundation

William Crutcher’s grave in Swanson Cemetery in Chapel Hill