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   The Goodspeed Publishing Company,
   History of Tennessee, 1887

        WILLIAM T. DELANEY. The grandfather of our subject, WILLIAM, came
    from Virginia, and settled near Bristol, one of the first white men
    of the region.  The fort built on his farm was used for a long time
    for safety, and afterward became the first schoolhouse in the valley.
    NANCY RHODES became his wife in Virginia, and they were engaged in
    farming with their negroes all their lives. They were Baptists, and he
    died, very wealthy. JOHN R., the father, was born in 1799, in Holston
    Valley, and was a man of strong intellect and well informed. He was
    sheriff for several years, and in the Indian war as brigadier-general,
    and also in the same office in the militia.  He was a magistrate and
    chairman of the county court for years. In 1829, MARGARET, the daughter
    of THOMAS MCDOWELL, a native of Ireland, became his wife. She was born
    in Virginia in 1808. Her father came from Virginia, and settled in
    Washington County, near the Tennessee line, but finally moved to near
    St. Louis, where he died in 1881, and the mother in 1863. Both were
    Presbyterians. Our subject, the fourth of twelve children, was born
    January 12, 1835, and educated at Greeneville College. In 1859 he began
    medicine under Dr. J. A. MURPHY. He graduated from Jefferson Medical
    College, of Philadelphia, in 1861, and soon joined Company B, Fourth
    Confederate Tennessee Cavalry, and afterward became assistant surgeon,
    and finally surgeon. He served throughout the war, and surrendered in
    1865 in North Carolina.  He practiced in the Holston Valley for two
    years, and then began his present successful career at Bristol. In
    1866 he married MARY E., a daughter of Capt. WILLIAM COWAN, deceased.
    She was born near Bristol in 1844, and died in 1882, leaving five
    children. In 1885 he married NANCY B., the daughter of MAHLON SUSONG.
    They have but one child. He and his wife are Presbyterians.

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