Several different years of birth given in different records. Wife was informant on death certificate and she said 1838. Adult baptismal record for what was the RLDS church at the time also gives 1838.
Sources
Johnson County, Missouri, death certificate number 8419. Will County, Illinois, marriage license number 1071. Civil War pension number 432193 and wife's widow's pension on same service 962026 (served in Company E, 39th Infantry Illinois).
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's 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: