Served in Confederacy - 32nd TN. Infantry, Co. H. - Private.
Present in the 1860 Giles County Census (age 39, wife -26, 4 children, and William's mother listed in household)
1880 Giles County Census district 3, pg. 60d
1870 Giles County Census district 3, Bethel P.O. pg. 521860 Giles County Census, Bethel, pg. 1811850 Giles county Census district 3, pg. 322 (with mother). Extract from "The Pulaski Citizen" reads, "Mr. William Paisley died at his home at Pleasant Hill, the county [Giles], last Friday of congestion of the brain, aged 69 years." issue datedThursday, August 6, 1891. Died intestate. Owned 275 acres of land in 3rd District of Giles County on Little Shoal Creek.