Descendants of John Thomas Wimbe

Descendants of John Thomas Wimberley

Generation No. 1

1. JOHN THOMAS1 WIMBERLEY was born March 11, 1832 in Bibb Co, GA, and died July 13, 1883 in Decatur CO, GA. He married ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE FERRELL in Albany, Dougherty Co, GA. She was born December 04, 1838 in Lee Co, GA.

Notes for JOHN THOMAS WIMBERLEY:
John bur at Oak City Cem, Decatur Co GA.
Source family bible and tombstone.

Possibly was Justice of Peace in Decatur CO.

Children of JOHN WIMBERLEY and ELIZABETH FERRELL are:
2. i. CHARLES WILMOT2 WIMBERLEY, SR, b. July 09, 1857, Bainbridge, Decatur Co, GA; d. April 22, 1928, Decatur CO, GA.
ii. FRANCIS BARTOW WIMBERLEY, b. July 11, 1859, Bainbridge,GA.
3. iii. JEFFERSON DAVIS WIMBERLEY, b. June 23, 1861, Bainbridge, GA; d. October 28, 1917, Cairo, GA.
iv. JOHN WIMBERLEY, b. April 04, 1864, Bainbridge,GA; m. OPHELIA UNKN.
v. EDITH WIMBERLEY, b. September 21, 1867, Roseland, Decateur Co,GA.
4. vi. EDWIN AUGUSTUS WIMBERLEY, b. March 11, 1871, Bainbridge, Decatur Co, GA; d. May 04, 1945, Bainbridge, Decatur Co, GA.
vii. ARTHUR WARREN WIMBERLEY, b. January 29, 1875, Red Bluff, Decatur CO, GA.
viii. ALICE WIMBERLEY, b. August 19, 1875, Bainbridge, Decatur Co, GA; d. 1939, Bainbridge, Decatur Co, GA.

Notes for ALICE WIMBERLEY:
Never married.

ix. ELIZABETH CLEMENTINE WIMBERLEY, b. December 04, 1878, Lee Co, GA; m. WALTER GRIFFIN.

Generation No. 2

2. CHARLES WILMOT2 WIMBERLEY, SR (JOHN THOMAS1) was born July 09, 1857 in Bainbridge, Decatur Co, GA, and died April 22, 1928 in Decatur CO, GA. He married (1) EMMA UNKN. He married (2) KATHERINE CHESTNUT October 10, 1915 in Albany, Dougherty Co, GA.

Notes for CHARLES WILMOT WIMBERLEY, SR:
Bur at Oak City Cem, Decatur Co, GA

Children of CHARLES WIMBERLEY and EMMA UNKN are:
5. i. CONSTANCE EZWOOD3 WIMBERLEY.
ii. CLEMENTINE WIMBERLEY, b. May 09, 1888, GA; d. April 14, 1926, Decatur CO, GA; m. OTIS M TOOLE.

Notes for CLEMENTINE WIMBERLEY:
Constance is bur at Oak City Cem, Decatur Co, GA.
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Child of CHARLES WIMBERLEY and KATHERINE CHESTNUT is:
iii. CHARLES WILMOT3 WIMBERLEY, JR, b. August 26, 1892; d. February 07, 1924, Decatur CO, GA.

Notes for CHARLES WILMOT WIMBERLEY, JR:
Charles is bur at Oak City Cem, Decatur Co, GA. On his marker - "1st LT 307th Inf 77th Div AEF WW 1914-1918.
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3. JEFFERSON DAVIS2 WIMBERLEY (JOHN THOMAS1) was born June 23, 1861 in Bainbridge, GA, and died October 28, 1917 in Cairo, GA. He married SUSAN ELVIRA MERRITT June 23, 1884 in Decatur Co, GA, daughter of JACOB MERRITT and EMILY UNKNOWN. She was born July 25, 1866 in Ga, and died April 08, 1914 in Cairo, GA.

Notes for JEFFERSON DAVIS WIMBERLEY:
Wounded in Civil War.

Notes for SUSAN ELVIRA MERRITT:
Family members state that Susan was full blooded Cherokee Indian but has not been yet documented.

Children of JEFFERSON WIMBERLEY and SUSAN MERRITT are:
6. i. OLIN JEFFERSON3 WIMBERLEY, b. July 16, 1895, Grady Co, GA; d. January 25, 1969, Thomasville, GA.
ii. GORDON LUTHER WIMBERLEY, b. Decatur or Grady Co, GA.
7. iii. LEON GRADY WIMBERLEY, b. July 09, 1891, Grady Co, GA; d. June 20, 1966, Bainbridge, Decatur Co, GA.
iv. VAN G. WIMBERLEY, b. Decatur or Grady Co, GA.
v. RUBY WIMBERLEY, b. Decatur or Grady Co, GA.
vi. PEARL WIMBERLEY, b. Decatur or Grady Co, GA.
vii. CHARLES W. WIMBERLEY, b. Decatur or Grady Co, GA.
viii. ERIE WIMBERLEY, b. Decatur or Grady Co, GA.

4. EDWIN AUGUSTUS2 WIMBERLEY (JOHN THOMAS1) was born March 11, 1871 in Bainbridge, Decatur Co, GA, and died May 04, 1945 in Bainbridge, Decatur Co, GA. He married CLARA OVERSTREET. She was born August 28, 1879, and died August 28, 1960 in Bainbridge, Decatur Co, GA.

Notes for EDWIN AUGUSTUS WIMBERLEY:
Edwin bur at Oak City Cem, Decatur Co, GA.

Children of EDWIN WIMBERLEY and CLARA OVERSTREET are:
i. EZWOOD3 WIMBERLEY.
ii. CLARA WIMBERLEY.
iii. PARDEE WIMBERLEY.

Generation No. 3

5. CONSTANCE EZWOOD3 WIMBERLEY (CHARLES WILMOT2, JOHN THOMAS1) She married WALTER TAYLOR ROBERTS, son of JAMES ROBERTS and MAUDE ABELL.

Children of CONSTANCE WIMBERLEY and WALTER ROBERTS are:
i. CHARLES WILMOT4 ROBERTS.
ii. CONSTANCE EZWOOD ROBERTS.

6. OLIN JEFFERSON3 WIMBERLEY (JEFFERSON DAVIS2, JOHN THOMAS1) was born July 16, 1895 in Grady Co, GA, and died January 25, 1969 in Thomasville, GA. He married (1) MARY HONORENE GILLIARD January 07, 1916 in Thomasville,GA, daughter of PRYOR GILLIARD and CORDELIA GRIFFIN. She was born December 08, 1897 in Centennial Community, Grady Co, GA, and died February 03, 1971 in Cairo, GA. He married (2) IRMA BAGGETT Abt. 1945. She died September 01, 1993 in Cairo, Grady Co, GA.

Notes for OLIN JEFFERSON WIMBERLEY:
Bur Whigham City Cem, Grady Co, GA.

Notes for MARY HONORENE GILLIARD:
Bur Centennial Cem, Grady Co, GA.

Children of OLIN WIMBERLEY and MARY GILLIARD are:
8. i. ELLEN CHARLOTTE4 WIMBERLEY, b. July 07, 1917, Cairo, Grady Co, GA; d. April 05, 1971, Atlanta, GA.
9. ii. EDNA EARLE WIMBERLEY, b. January 20, 1921, Grady Co, GA; d. June 1996, Grady Co, GA.
10. iii. SUSIE ETHEL WIMBERLEY, b. June 07, 1923, Cairo,Grady co,GA.
11. iv. EVIE LOUISE WIMBERLEY, b. January 11, 1927, Cairo, Grady Co, GA.
v. EDWIN AUGUSTUS WIMBERLEY, b. April 04, 1930, Cairo, Grady Co, GA; d. November 07, 1987, Appling, GA; m. ROSE HENDERSON.

Notes for EDWIN AUGUSTUS WIMBERLEY:
Edwin had five children.

12. vi. CHARLES ROGERS WIMBERLEY, b. February 24, 1936, Cairo, Grady Co, GA; d. September 1997, Thomas Co, GA.

7. LEON GRADY3 WIMBERLEY (JEFFERSON DAVIS2, JOHN THOMAS1) was born July 09, 1891 in Grady Co, GA, and died June 20, 1966 in Bainbridge, Decatur Co, GA. He married DESSIE ANNA GILLIARD October 01, 1916, daughter of PRYOR GILLIARD and CORDELIA GRIFFIN. She was born March 18, 1888 in Centenniel Township, Thomas Co, GA, and died May 21, 1983 in Bainbridge, Decatur Co, GA.

Children of LEON WIMBERLEY and DESSIE GILLIARD are:
i. GRADY WRIGHT4 WIMBERLEY, b. August 17, 1917; d. March 15, 1969, Detriot, MICH.

Notes for GRADY WRIGHT WIMBERLEY:
Grady worked with the Salvation Army.

ii. LEON CECIL WIMBERLEY, b. October 03, 1921; d. 1979.

Notes for LEON CECIL WIMBERLEY:
Cecil was a Methodist preacher in Macon, GA.
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Generation No. 4

8. ELLEN CHARLOTTE4 WIMBERLEY (OLIN JEFFERSON3, JEFFERSON DAVIS2, JOHN THOMAS1) was born July 07, 1917 in Cairo, Grady Co, GA, and died April 05, 1971 in Atlanta, GA. She married EARL EVAN HARVEY, JR December 04, 1938 in Miami, Dade Co, FL. He was born in MA.

Children of ELLEN WIMBERLEY and EARL HARVEY are:
i. JANIE WIMBERLEY5 HARVEY, b. May 04, 1943, Macon, Bibb Co,GA.
ii. ELLEN ELIZABETH HARVEY, b. December 31, 1949, Jacksonville, Duval Co, FL; m. WILLIAM JERRY GARRETT.

9. EDNA EARLE4 WIMBERLEY (OLIN JEFFERSON3, JEFFERSON DAVIS2, JOHN THOMAS1) was born January 20, 1921 in Grady Co, GA, and died June 1996 in Grady Co, GA. She married DANIEL WAYMAN CHASON February 19, 1939 in Grady Co, GA. He died Abt. 1992 in Grady Co, GA.

Children of EDNA WIMBERLEY and DANIEL CHASON are:
13. i. SHIRLEY LUCRETIA5 CHASON.
ii. SARA CHASON.
iii. JUDY CHASON.
iv. ELAINE CHASON, b. Grady Co, GA.

10. SUSIE ETHEL4 WIMBERLEY (OLIN JEFFERSON3, JEFFERSON DAVIS2, JOHN THOMAS1) was born June 07, 1923 in Cairo,Grady co,GA. She married JOHN STANCIL BARWICK March 16, 1940 in Camilla,GA, son of EUGENE BARWICK and KATHERINE HARRELL. He was born February 17, 1921 in Thomasville,Thomas Co ,GA, and died July 07, 1990 in Orange Springs,Putnam Co,FL.

Notes for JOHN STANCIL BARWICK:
Known as J.S. to his family and friends, he was a large man with a large heart. He lost his left eye when he was in elementary school. He was cutting a piece of stray rubber from one of his tennis shoes when the knife slipped and gouged directly into his eye. In his younger days, he used an artificial eye but later in life opted for just a dark glass lens over his left eye. He went to school in Pahokee, Florida, the closest school to where his family resided in Canal Point. During the Depression, his family moved back to Grady County, Georgia living in Cairo. He then finished high school at Cairo, playing center on their football team. He repeated his senior year, largely due to his desire to play another season of football and to be near the apple of his eye, Susie Ethel Wimberley. He was rejected from WWII service because of his lost eye and he was also a farmer at the time. He and Susie, known to all as Ethel, bought a small farm located between Cairo and Whigham along what was old US 84 highway. He farmed with a mule. In 1944, his parents had moved back to Chosen, just outside of Belle Glade, the Lake Okeechobee region of Florida since his father was in the produce business. Times were hard on the farm life so the farm was sold and J.S. and family moved to Pahokee, Florida. He worked in the produce business helping run a bean packing house in Belle Glade. The family lived in rental housing in Pahokee (3 places) before moving to another rental home on the ridge just north of Canal Point, Florida. By 1946, J.S. had gone to work for W.H.Vann, Inc., a farming and shipping concern. He oversaw their green been packing house which was one of the largest , if not the largest at the time. The packing house had 6 bean belts, huge machines where fresh green beans were processed for packing and shipping to northern markets, mostly by rail car. In 1952, a new family home was purchased in Pahokee at 387 Cypress Ave. It was a 3 bedroom, 1 bath flat top home. Flat top housing was much the rage in South Florida at the time. J.S. eventually became the General Sales Manager of W.H. Vann, Inc. Over the years of the late fifties, the farming concern moved from fresh green bean production to sweet corn. This was caused by the innovations developed for freezing fresh beans which significantly reduced the demand for fresh green beans. Fresh sweet corn was the item in big demand during the early 1960s. W.H.Vann farmed about 1500 acres primarily located near downtown Pahokee and at Section 5, which was at Dead Man's Curve between Pahokee and Belle Glade on US 441. In the early 60s, the company signed a long term lease for the Bar D Ranch, about 3,500 acres of pastureland located just above Sand Cut, north of Canal Point. J.S. then moved into General Managership of the entire operation. He orchestrated the clearing of the land from pasture to cultivatable farm land, rich virgin muck soil. He surveyed the land, laying out drainage ditches and installing pumps to help manage water. Eventually, W. H. Vann had as much as 5000 acres of sweet corn, with two crops per year. They also had a small amount of sugar cane which came on the scene in the early 60s with the Castro regime taking control of Cuba. Over the next few years, the Vann concern gradually diverted a few hundred more acres into sugar cane production. When the Bar D lease expired in the mid 1970s, W.H.Vann decided to abandon the property and converted its remaining owned land (about 900 total acres) into sugar cane. J.S. retired in 1985 and sold the family home, relocating to Orange Springs, Florida. He and Ethel rented a small place on Lake Wimberly located just off Fla Hwy 21 about a mile north of the post office in Orange Springs. J.S. later years were not healthy. He had heart disease and related health problems. He died on the morning of July 6, 1990. He was sitting on the edge of his bed and just collapsed from a total heart failure. He was buried in Barnett's Creek Baptist Church, located between Thomasville and Cairo, Georgia.

Children of SUSIE WIMBERLEY and JOHN BARWICK are:
14. i. REBECCA ANN5 BARWICK, b. November 02, 1941, Thomasville, Thomas Co, GA.
15. ii. CHARLES JEFFERSON BARWICK, b. August 16, 1943, Cairo,Grady Co ,GA.
16. iii. VIRGINIA IRENE BARWICK, b. February 02, 1946, Pahokee,Palm Beach Co,FL.
17. iv. JOHN STANCIL BARWICK,JR, b. January 18, 1950, Belle Glade,Palm Beach Co,Fl; d. August 22, 1995, Pine Island,Hernando Co,FL.
18. v. NANCY SUSAN BARWICK, b. January 10, 1952, Belle Glade,Palm Beach Co,Fl.
19. vi. LAURIE JUNE BARWICK, b. July 10, 1961, Pahokee,Palm Beach Co,FL.

11. EVIE LOUISE4 WIMBERLEY (OLIN JEFFERSON3, JEFFERSON DAVIS2, JOHN THOMAS1) was born January 11, 1927 in Cairo, Grady Co, GA. She married (1) UNKN MORRIS. She married (2) CHARLES E BARTLETT.

Child of EVIE WIMBERLEY and UNKN MORRIS is:
i. JEFFERY LOREN5 MORRIS, b. December 26, 1966, Macon, Bibb Co,GA.

Children of EVIE WIMBERLEY and CHARLES BARTLETT are:
ii. MARIE ELANA5 BARTLETT, b. August 06, 1948, Macon, Bibb Co,GA.
iii. TIMOTHY BARTLETT.
iv. JO LEIGH BARTLETT.

12. CHARLES ROGERS4 WIMBERLEY (OLIN JEFFERSON3, JEFFERSON DAVIS2, JOHN THOMAS1) was born February 24, 1936 in Cairo, Grady Co, GA, and died September 1997 in Thomas Co, GA. He married CAROLYN H RICH. She was born in GA.

Children of CHARLES WIMBERLEY and CAROLYN RICH are:
i. WANDA5 WIMBERLEY.
ii. CHARLES WIMBERLEY.
iii. CHIP WIMBERLEY.

Submitted by Susan Barwick Elliott

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