Talbot County GaArchives Photo person.....William C. Wimberly   1861
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Company A 4th Regiment  Talbot County  Southern Rifles

Wimberly, William C.-1st Lieutenant Apr. 26, 1861. Retired Apr. 26, 1862.


He was the son of  Lewis D. Wimberly and Matilda Garrett
Centerville, Talbot  born February 8, 1826 and died
January 8, 1896.  He married Elizabeth Tabitha
Breedlove on March 1, 1849 in Talbot.  There were at least two
children, Julia Wimberly and James Kimbrough.

Burial: Centerville Cemetery Talbot County
Wimberly. 

Below from: A Rockaway in Talbot Vol. II 

When Captain Barnard Curley of Talbot County
organized a company of men, the Southern Rifles, on
April 26, 1861, William Crawford Wimberly enlisted
and was elected 1st Lieutenant.  He retired April
16, 1862, at the expiration of their enlistment of
twelve months.

Wimberly was later in the Georgia Militia.  At
Griswoldville, Georgia, he was wounded in action on
November 16, 1864.  In his obituary appearing in the
Talbotton New Era for February 4,1896, it tells how
he returned home to his plantation near Centreville
and "lived a quiet, peaceful life.."

His children are shown as Sarah Eliza, Elizabeth
Augusta, Lewis Leonard, James F., Anna Julia,
William C., Jr., Nellie, Laura Emma, Lizzie Kate and
Jack Kimbrough Wimberly.

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