William W. WIllingham, CSA (Kyle S. VanLandingham)

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• He served in F. A. Hundry's company, Munnerlyn's Battalion at the end of the War and was accidentally wounded by a comrade who thought his gun was not loaded.

Civil War Florida Soldier ID: 294 | Edit this Soldier | Revision History
Created by: CivilWarFlorida Administrator           on February 25th, 2004 9:24:01 PM EST

Florida Confederate Pension Application File D18187   
Polk County, FL, 1908. 16 pages.

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Page 206 -- Roll Company K--8th Florida Infantry

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William W. Willingham
William W. Willingham, a pioneer settler of Kissimmee Island, Florida, was a cattle baron, whose character was flawed by a love of liquor and a reckless, bullying, brutal and revengeful disposition which led to his becoming an infamous desperado. William W. Willingham, nicknamed "Bill" or "Bill Ham," was born January 25, 1842 in Ware County, Georgia. With his parents, William Henry and Anna E. (Hilliard) Willingham, Bill moved before 1845 to Columbia County, Florida, and thence about 1848 to the Alafia settlement, near the present site of Mulberry, where his father engaged in cattle ranching....

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• Kyle S. VanLandingham (Denver, CO).  Private William W. Willingham, Company K, 8th Florida Infantry is Kyle S.'s great-granduncle.

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