Mr. William H. Cashion, aged about 75 years, died of pneumonia at his home in Fayetteville, 126 Main Avenue, North, at 10 o'clock Saturday morning, March 24, 1917. He was reared at Mulberry in this county and when he call was made for volunteers he enlisted in Col. Turney's 1st Tenn. Regt., before Tennessee had succeeded, and was in Virginia during the entire war, being an active participant in the greater part of the battle in the Old Dominion. In July, 1863, he was wounded in the leg at Gettysburg which kept him in the hospital for a number of months. Upon his recovery, he returned to the service and in the battle of the Wilderness, in 1864, he was again wounded in the same leg which necessitated amputation. He was loyal to the cause to the last and always found the greatest pleasure in the annual reunions. He had held office a number of times in the Bivouac and in the Association of Consolidated Regiments and was the treasurer of both at the time of his death. For eight years he served Lincoln County as Treasurer and the county never had a more obliging official. Socially there could not be found a more agreeable and clever gentleman, and ,being of a sunny disposition he was held in the very highest esteem by every acquaintance. Having appealed to the arbitrament of arms, he accepted the result in good faith and there was not a more faithful and loyal citizen in the United States, but he knew that at the time of the war between the north and the cause of the South was founded on justice and right. Funeral services were conducted Sunday afternoon by Eld. T. C. Little and Revs. J. R. Edwards and J. F. Beasley, burial at Rose hill. The old soldiers acted as honorary pallbearers. He is survived by his wife, and two daughters - Mrs. O. E. Parks and Mrs. T. J. Wiley.

Source:
The Fayetteville Observer
Fayettteville, Tennessee
Thursday, March 29, 1917