Sumter County AlArchives Biographies.....De Loach, William R. 1842 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

    WILLIAM R. DeLOACH, Judge of the Probate Court of Sumter County, was born at
the town where he now resides, in the year 1842.

    His father was the late Dr. A. B. DeLoach, a native of Tennessee, and his
mother was, before marriage, a Miss Roby, of the State of Georgia.

    William R. DeLoach finished his educational training at Professor Tutwiler's
excellent institution at Greene Springs, Ala., and at the outbreak of the late
war promptly enlisted as a private soldier in the Southern Army. As a member of
the Army of Virginia, he participated in many hotly contested engagements, and
upon his person bears several scars in commemoration of Cold Harbor,
Chancellorsville, Antietam, etc.

    Late in the war he was transferred to the Western Army, and became a captain
in Gen. Forrest's cavalry. At the close of hostilities, he returned to his
native place, and was some time afterward elected to the office of Tax Assessor,
a position he held for ten consecutive years. In 1880 he was elected to the
Probate Judgeship, and re-elected in 1886.

    Judge DeLoach is a man of high standing in the community where his life has
been spent. He is a modest, unostentatious, wide-awake, progressive citizen;
enjoying the confidence and esteem of the good people among whom he resides.
Such is the tribute paid him by one of the best-known citizens of Alabama. In
1867, our subject was married to Susan T. Gibbs, a daughter of the late Charles
R. Gibbs, a colonel in the War of 1812.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART III.
HISTORICAL RESUME OF THE VARIOUS COUNTIES IN THE STATE.
COTTON BELT.


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