William R. Wingfield

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                             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                                   
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Arkansas Gazette, Volume XVII, October 4, 1836, Number 42, Whole No. 1043,   
page 1, column 2.                                                            
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