From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: Sawyer Robert Wimberly - Bienville Parish, Louisiana

Sawyer Robert Wimberly was the second child of John Lawson Wimberly and Julia Frances "Fannie" Murph. He was born on 16 January 1888 in Ringgold, Bienville Parish, Louisiana. He married Minnie Lee Pate. Sawyer was a farmer and a lifelong resident of Bienville Parish. He and his wife had nine children and are buried in the Wimberly Cemetery.

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    "Sawyer Wimberly [obituary]," newspaper clipping, 1965, unidentified newspaper, from the privately-held collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Obituaries were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. 

    Sawyer Wimberly, photograph, n.d.; digital images, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2021. Photos were accessed and scanned at the home of Marguerite Cook Clark's daughter in Alpine, Texas on April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016.

    Vera Meeks Wimberly, Wimberly Family History, Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana 1837 (Houston Texas: D. Anderson, 1979), 292.