Carson Hiram Kightlinger
PROFILE of
CARSON HIRAM
KIGHTLINGER
8th MO Infantry (US)
Company G
Carson Hiram Kightlinger
 

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John Byers Reed identified Carson Hiram Kightlinger as an attendee at the 8th MO reunion near Peoria, Illinois, sometime in the 1890's.   Reed identified him as "Hiram" Kightlinger:

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Bob Makunas, when looking for Civil War veterans in the Elmwood Illinois cemetery, came across Hiram Kightlinger's grave:

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