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Green B. Wimberley, land agent of the Kansas & Texas Coal Company, at Huntington, has held that position since the location of the company at that place. He was born in Choctaw County, Ala., in 1846, and is the second of a family of twelve children (nine of who are living) born to William and Susan (Needham) Wimberley, natives of Enterprise, Miss., and Greensboro, Ala., born in 1814 and 1820, respectively. They were married in Choctaw County, Ala., where they still live. In younger days the father was an overseer but he is now a well-to-do farmer and planter. When a boy he lost his father, John Wimberley, who was of Irish origin. The great-grandfather of our subject, Capt. William Wimberley, came to America with Gen. La Fayette, and served as a captain in the Revolution. The maternal grandfather, Benjamin Needham, was of Scotch descent, born in North Carolina, and died in Choctaw County, Ala. In 1862, at the age of fifteen, Green B. Wimberley joined Company G, Fortieth Alabama Infantry, in which he served until discharged in September of the same year for disability. The following December he enlisted in Company E, Ninth Alabama Cavalry, as second sergeant, and operated afterward in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia. June 24, 1864, he was captured at La Fayette, Ga., and taken to Camp Morton, Ind., where he was held ten months. He was paroled in Virginia a few weeks before the general surrender, and then returned home. In the winter of 1865-66 he went to Louisiana and was there married, in November, 1867, to Mary Ann, daughter of C. C. and Mary Brewster, who were formerly from Mississippi, the State of Mrs. Wimberley’s birth. Mr. and Mrs. Wimberley have been members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, for over twenty years. To them four sons and four daughters have been born. In December, 1869, our subject settled near the present site of Huntington and until the establishment of that town made farming his sole occupation. His farm now consists of 200 acres, all of his property being the result of his own labor. He is a Democrat, and since 1884 has held the office of deputy sheriff of Sebastian County. He is a member of Pulliam Masonic Lodge No. 133, of which he was Master six years.