William
Hezekiah
Forrest
Born about in Chapel Hill, Bedford County, Tennessee
Ancestors 
Son of William B. Forrest
and Miriam (Beck) Luxton
Brother of
Nathan Bedford Forrest, Frances Forrest, Aaron H. Forrest, John Nathan Forrest, Jesse Anderson Forrest Sr, Jeffrey Edward Forrest and James Madison Luxton [half]
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about
at about age 46
in Hickman, Tennessee, United States
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Biography
William was born about 1825 in Bedford County, Tennessee. He is the son of William Forrest and Miriam Beck. He moved with his family to Tippah County, Mississippi in 1834. His father died in 1837. He and his family helped to clear swampland for farming. In 1841 two of his brothers and all three of his sisters died from Typhoid Fever. His widowed mother remarried in December of that year to Jospeh Luxon.
Military
William enlisted in 1861 with his brothers, Nathan Bedford Forrest and Jeffrey Forrest.
July 10, 1862
Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest's brigade passed here enroute to its junction with additional units, to be followed by a further advance on the Federal garrison and stores at Murfreesboro. Leaving Chattanooga on July 9, the brigade here consisted of the 8th Texas Cavalry (Wharton), 2nd Georgia Cavalry (Lawton), and Woodward's Kentucky Cavalry Battalion, with a headquarters unit of 20 men, commanded by Captain William H. Forrest. Further accessions to strength were to join at McMinnville.
William served as a cavalry officer and led the charge against Col. Abel D. Streight’s column at the Battle of Sand Mountain in Days Gap, Alabama where he was wounded April 30, 1863. William skirmished for two miles before he received a ball through his thigh, breaking the bone. Several of his men were lost in this battle. Col. Streight’s men rode mules from their departure from steamships at Eastport, Mississippi. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest captured Streight’s entire command on May 3, 1864 at Cedar Bluff, Alabama near the Georgia state line.
It was said that the only man that N.B. Forrest was scared of was his brother William Hezikiah Forrest.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his ancestors' Y-chromosome or mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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~0.78%
Glynne Simpson
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23andMe, GEDmatch QB1335281 [compare]
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~0.78%
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