TWIGGS COUNTY, GA - HISTORY - BIOS  Wimberly, Ezekiel 

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Following is the text from the Ezekiel Wimberly
State Historical Marker located at the Twiggs
County Courthouse in Jeffersonville, Georgia.

"Major General Ezekiel Wimberly commanding the
Twiggs Militia erected and garrisoned three
forts along the Ocmulgee River for frontier
protection. Born in Bertie County, North
Carolina, September 1, 1783, son and grandson
of Revolutionary soldiers, he was a resident of
Twiggs County from its founding in 1809 until
his death, May 5, 1843. General Wimberly was a
member of the House and Senate, twice a
Presidential Elector, a Colonel in the War of
1812 and Major-General from 1820 until his
resignation in 1840."

He was the son of John Wimberly who was born in
Bertie in 1755, grandson of Ezekiel Wimberly
who was born in Bertie in 1720 or thereabouts,
and great grandson of early Bertie resident
John Wimberly who died in there in 1749.

Ezekiel Wimberly and John Wimberly had another
famous descendant, Ezekiel Wimberly Cullen, but
he was born in Georgia in 1814 and went to
Texas in 1835.
 
Alton Blevins