He moved his family to Laurel Hill in 1890, where he and his wife, Mary Jane Lassiter, raised ten children.

", of which William Allen Lundy was the subject; making mention of the 107-year-old Confederate veteran being on television in Pensacola.

At the alleged age of 109, Lundy died in Crestview, Okaloosa County, on September 1, 1957.

However, 1860 Census records suggest that Lundy was born in 1859, which would mean that he was only six years old at the end of the Civil War—implying that he could never have fought in it—and 98 when he died.

[4][5] In addition, research in 2016 suggested that no evidence in favor of either Lundy or his father having served could be found.