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D. A. Kimbrough, railroad agent and merchant, at Weldon, Ark., was born in North Carolina, June 14, 1842, in Caswell County. His parents were Miles and Dicia (Burton) Kimbrough, natives of North Carolina. His father was a son of William Kimbrough, one of the earliest settlers of that section of North Carolina; was an active Democrat and planter, and is still living at the age of eighty-eight. Miles Kimbrough’s wife was a daughter of Capt. Thomas Burton, of North Carolina, captain of Light Horse Muster Company in an early day. He was a farmer and teamster and moved to Alabama about 1850, where he died in 1858. Mrs. Kimbrough died in North Carolina in 1873. She was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. D. A. was raised on a farm, received his schooling in North Carolina, and, at the age of seventeen, began life for himself, working as a farm hand two years, and then went to Mississippi, where he remained till May, 1861, when he married Miss M. S. Burton, of Mississippi. They have the following family: J. T. (a young man of twenty-seven, unmarried, living at home), Sarah A. (young lady of twenty-three), Nancy S. (wife of J. M. Burford, died in 1888), W. S., D. A., George W., Miles (who died at the age of three years) and Dinah M. (a little girl of twelve years). After marriage our subject continued farming till March, 1862, when he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-fifth Mississippi, Col. Barrey’s regiment, under Capt. Watson. He was in the battles of Corinth, Iuka, Second Corinth, Holly Springs, the siege of Vicksburg, when he was paroled and returned home, afterward returning to the Parole Camps, at Columbus, Miss., from which place they were called to join Johnson, at Resaca; they went to Meridian, Miss., thence to Mobile, through Florida, then to Selma, Ala., then through the campaign of Johnson to Atlanta; then, under Hood, assisted in the destruction of the railroad from Atlanta to Dalton; then to Franklin, Tenn., Spring Hill, Nashville to Iuka, Miss., thence to Mobile and Blakeley, being captured and consigned to Ship Island, where he remained till the close of the war. He was paroled at Vicksburg, June 1, 1865. On his return he engaged in farming till 1870, when he sold out and moved to Bowen’s Ridge, in Jackson County, where he bought ninety-three acres of land, and engaged in farming, and buying and clearing land, till he had 370 acres, 150 under cultivation. In 1878 he engaged in mercantile business in Bowen’s Ridge, till 1885, when, seeing there was an opening for a town at the present site of Weldon, he built a house there and moved to that place, and trading half of his goods to W. H. Wise for half of eighty acres of land, they began business, with success, and during that year the Batesville & Brinkley Railroad reached that point, and the town was laid off, and in the fall of 1885, the depot was erected. Through his influence the town grew rapidly, and in the spring of 1886, Mr. Kimbrough was made agent of the railroad company, which position he still holds. He now owns 280 acres of land, and one-half of the town property at Weldon. He has over 100 acres in cultivation. He is a Democrat, and he and his family are members of the Methodist Church. He is also prominent in all enterprises for the good of the country.