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Jesse William Souther was born on March 12, 1813. Around 1850 he built a water powered mill. A head of water turned two turbine wheels. One wheel ran a grist and flour mill and the other a sawmill. Frankie Roseanne Vandiver Thomas visited her Uncle Jesse's mill as a child to have the family corn ground into meal.
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