CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: GEORGE C. WIMBERLY - Smith County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

GEORGE C. WIMBERLY.

George C. Wimberly, of Tyler, was born in Limestone, county, Ala., 
January 19, 1839.  He was reared in his native state until his
sixteenth yeear when he removed with his par­ents to Texas.  He
enlisted in 1861 in Douglas' Texas battery, C. S. A., and served 
through the entire war, and his comrades say there was no braver 
man in the command. In 1868 he entered the mercantile business in 
Tyler and continued in the same over twenty Years, making an 
envia­ble name in the business world and amassing a valuable es­tate.  
He had be 0n for the past six years the Vice-president of the 
Citizens National bank in Tyler.  Several times he has been called 
by tho people to serve them as an alderman and in other responsible 
posts, always acquiting himself with credit.  He was married 
Nov. 17, 1879 to Miss Linda Gres­ham, daughter of Mr. Leory Gresham,  
They live in their handsome home on South Fannie Ave. No citizen of 
Tyler stands higher than Geo. C. Wimberly.