TWIGGS COUNTY, GA - HISTORY - BIOS Wimberly, Ezekiel ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: From: Vab78230@aol.com Alton Blevins 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