Biography of Green B Wimberley, Sebastian Co, AR

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SOURCE: History of Benton, Washington, Carroll, Madison, Crawford,
Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. Chicago: The Goodspeed 
Publishing Co., 1889.
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Green B. Wimberley, land agent of the Kansas & Texas Coal Company, at
Huntington, has held that position  since the location of the company at that
place. He was born in Choctaw County, Ala., in 1846, and is the  second of a
family of twelve children (nine of who are living) born to William and Susan
(Needham)  Wimberley, natives of Enterprise, Miss., and Greensboro, Ala., born
in 1814 and 1820, respectively. They were  married in Choctaw County, Ala.,
where they still live. In younger days the father was an overseer, but he is
now a well-to-do farmer and planter. When a boy he lost his father, John
Wimberley, who was of Irish origin.  The great-grandfather of our subject,
Capt. William Wimberley, came to America with Gen. La Fayette, and  served as a
captain in the Revolution. The maternal grandfather, Benjamin Needham, was of
Scotch descent, born in North Carolina, and died in Choctaw County, Ala. In
1862, at the age of fifteen, Green B. Wimberley  joined Company G, Fortieth
Alabama Infantry, in which he served until discharged in September of the same
year for disability. The following December he enlisted in Company E, Ninth
Alabama Cavalry, as second  sergeant, and operated afterward in Mississippi,
Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia. June 24, 1864, he  was captured at La
Fayette, Ga., and taken to Camp Morton, Ind., where he was held ten months. He
was  paroled in Virginia a few weeks before the general surrender, and then
returned home. In the winter of 1865-66  he went to Louisiana and was there
married, in November, 1867, to Mary Ann, daughter of C. C. and Mary  Brewster,
who were formerly from Mississippi, the State of Mrs. Wimberley's birth. Mr.
and Mrs. Wimberley  have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
for over twenty years. To them four sons and  four daughters have been born. In
December, 1869, our subject settled near the present site of Huntington, and
until the establishment of that town made farming his sole occupation. His farm
now consists of 200 acres, all  of his property being the result of his own
labor. He is a Democrat, and since 1884 has held the office of deputy  sheriff
of Sebastian County. He is a member of Pulliam Masonic Lodge No. 133, of which
he was Master six  years.