Re: William Henderson Deloach My grandmother referred to him as "Uncle William". He was her grandmother Roach's brother. He seems to have been an interesting man. The little bit I know about him, and that highly romanticized perhaps, is roughly as follows. He was a Confederate cavalry officer. As the story goes, he was captured and imprisoned on an Island in the middle of a river somewhere. He and a few other prisoners found a knife and tunneled under the wall . As they were attempting to swim across the river to freedom, one of the men got in trouble and screamed, alerting the guards. They were recaptured and finished the war in prison. After the war he was a country miller and invented the two devices described in the patents as enhancements of the threshing process. I can imagine that the "horsepower", which was, in effect a mobile grist mill with which he could thresh grain in situ, reveals a merchandising talent. Mama believed that the turbine water wheel was the original turbine device. According to Mama, he became quite prosperous, and operated a factory in Atlanta for the manufacture of his inventions. After his death sometime early in this century, his sons moved the business to somewhere in Alabama, as I understand it. Notes: 1. This information is based on things my maternal grandmother, Jimmie Belle (Entrekin ) Ashmore told me when I was a child. My memory could be faulty. She was the daughter of William Henderson Entrekin and Mary Virginia Roach . It is she to whom I refer to as Mama. This is a highly personalized writing. 2. Mary Virginia Roach was the daughter of John Washington Roach and Amanda Ardelia Deloach (406 xi) 3. Amanda Ardelia Deloach was the sister of William Henderson Deloach 4. William Henderson Deloach is listed in the descendants of Michel Des Loges as descendent 400v. 5. The fact that William Henderson Deloach and William Henderson Entrekin have the same first and middle names is probably coincidental. 6. John Washington Roach ( "Grandpa Roach") Was a Confederate Officer, Later a Physician and also a prosperous farmer. He disapproved of the Entrekins because he (accurately) considered their prospects poor and particularly because they were Republicans. He kept his daughters under close wraps hoping to make good marriages for them. 7. To further irritate the situation, WH Entrekin Married a second Roach Sister Eva after the Death of Mary Virginia. At approximately the same time his first cousin Charles Entrekin married a third Roach daughter Ardelia. The last two and possibly all three of the Roach-Entrekin marriages were elopements. 8. The Entrekins were descendants of Quakers who came to America with Lord Baltimore. They were from the Mount Zion Community in Carroll County Georgia. Republicans were fairly common there, apparently because of Methodist activity from the North. I understand a paper roughly entitled "The Southern Puritans" has been written about this group. 9. After the death of Eva, WH Entrekin took his family back (from Claxton /Daisey GA) to Mt. Zion because of family connections and because Mt. Zion had a good school and Republicans. Eva died within two years of the marriage (c 1901) and He died during a typhoid epidemic a year or so later. He did not actually contract the disease, but died as a result of overwork, and fatigue because he was tending sick people at night and working a farm during the day. He left six orphans. 10. Dr. Roach was estranged from his Entrekin daughters and did nothing to help these grandchildren. However, they overcame and survived as a close family, with occasional contact with Roach Aunts and cousins who apparently didn't share Grandpa Roach's bitterness. 11. My grandmother remembered "Uncle William" Deloach with particular fondness. She named her only son Charles Deloach Ashmore. Toxey Ashmore Hall