Lamar County, Texas - Obits: George M. Kimes ************************************************ Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Bunny Freeman Copyright ©2005 by Bunny Freeman Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ Confederate Veteran Magazine Vol. XXV No. 1 January 1917 George M. Kimes George M. Kimes was born and reared near Paris, Tex., and enlisted in the Confederate army at Yazoo City, Miss., in the spring of 1861 as a member of Company D. 18th Regiment of Mississippi Infantry. The command went to Virginia, where he served all through the war in Barksdale's Brigade. Since 1867 he had lived in Fauquier and Rappahannock Counties, where he married and reared a large family of good and useful citizens. he died at his son's home in Blaine, Mineral County, W. Va., November 23, 1916, and was buried in Sharon Cemetery, at Middleburg, Loudoun County, Va., by the side of his wife, who had preceded him to the grave by several years. They both had been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Fiery Run, Upper Fauquier County, Va., for many years.