____________________________________________________________________________ From the Advocate. Extracts of a letter to the Editor, dated Camp Wingfield, Sevier county, Sept. 10, 1836 We are getting slowly on - detained waiting for a company in Hempstead and one here. No accident happened among us until we reached this place. Yesterday morning, just before day, a limb from a dead tree fell upon a tent and killed instantaneously a young man, by the name of William R. Wingfield, who had joined my company in Clark county, cleaving his head from the nose backward entirely asunder - he never breathed or uttered a groan. He bid fair to make a good soldier; was a clever young man; and having joined the company on account of his attachment to me, his death has caused me much regret. A. Fowler ____________________________________________________________________________ Arkansas Gazette, Volume XVII, October 4, 1836, Number 42, Whole No. 1043, page 1, column 2. ____________________________________________________________________________ HTML file and design by David Kelley, 1997. All rights reserved.