Friday's Photo: Six Men on Horseback

This photo is another found in the collection that once belonged to Marguerite Cook Clark of Bienville Parish, Louisiana. Her mother identified the two boys in the middle - "John Wimberly (Harriet)" and "Sledge" with no first name. Question marks can be seen under the other young men's photos. I have tried to enlarge the photo, but it became pixilated with only slight changes. 

I am unable to identify five of the young men, but John Wimberly with "Harriet" under his name reminded me of another photo labeled "John (Harriet) Wimberly." This may be John L. Wimberly, son of Andrew Lawson Wimberly and Harriet Elizabeth Knighton. Does anyone know? 

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Men on Horseback and "John (Harriet) Wimberly," photographs, n.d.; digital images, from the privately held photo collection of Marguerite Cook Clark (1913-1989), Waynesville, North Carolina, 2022. 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), pages 182-183.

Friday's Photo: John Knighton Wimberly of Northwest Louisiana

In 1918, on his draft registration, thirty-eight-year-old John Knighton Wimberly had blue eyes and dark hair and was described as medium height. He was a farmer living in Ringgold in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. I'm not sure when this photo was taken, but other photos showing the chair and the painted tree on the background indicates the photo was taken sometime around the turn of the century. The photo, from the files of Marguerite Cook Clark, was labeled Knighton Wimberly by Maggie Martin Cook, a cousin and about the same age as Knighton. Maggie was also the mother of Marguerite Cook Clark. 

John Knighton Wimberly, son of Andrew Lawson Wimberly and Harriet Elizabeth Knighton, was born on 5 April 1880 in Red River Parish. He was the third of eight children. The other children were Missouri Frances, Martha Elizabeth, John Lawson, Andrew Lawson Jr., Annie Harriet, Thomas Cannon, and Mary Ann. 

Knighton spent most of his life in Red River Parish and Bienville Parish; however, in 1900, he was found working in Haskell, Texas, for a farmer, Frank Ross, and living with the Ross family. There is a story found in the Wimberly Family History that indicates that Knighton went to Texas to be a cowboy. 

By 1914, he had been married three times and widowed three times. He had one child, Cleo Wimberly, with his second wife. His fourth wife, Dollie Miles, outlived him. John Knighton Wimberly died on 5 November 1933 and is buried with other family in the Wimberly Cemetery. 

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"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6W37-N9G?: 5 August 2014), Texas > Haskell > ED 90 Justice Precincts 2-4 > image 2 of 21; citing NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

Knighton 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. 

"United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ8K-2MG : 24 December 2021), John Kinghton Wimberly, 1917-1918.

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

From the Files of Marguerite Cook Clark: John W. Hinton of Bienville Parish, Louisiana

I was recently asked if I had information about John W. Hinton and Mary Angelina Pittman. Their son, also John W. and the subject of this obituary, had always interested me as his name came up a few times when researching my great-grandfather, Terrell Bryan. 

In a letter written in 1910, Terrell referred to John as kin when he wrote, "I was glad to hear from Ben M. and John H. and others of our kin." However, John wrote in an affidavit for Terrell's Confederate pension record that he and Terrell were "no blood kin whatever." John was probably correct as the closest relationship appears to be that John's stepfather, William Wimberly, was the father of two of Terrell's sisters-in-law. 

In 1913, John reported on his Confederate pension record that he had lived in Bienville Parish his entire life and that he had four sons and eight daughters. This obituary listed the names and gave the locations of eleven of his twelve children. 

There was no date on this obituary, but it was easily found. According to his pension record, John W. Hinton died on January 29, 1924. His wife, Jennie Knighton Hinton, died the following year.  Both are buried in the Mount Lebanon Cemetery in Bienville Parish, Louisiana. 

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Sources 

Ancestry.com. Louisiana, Statewide Death Index, 1819-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2002.

Cook, S.A., "Gibsland," The Bienville Democrat. Arcadia, Louisiana. 30 April 1925, p.3, digital images, Digital Archives of the Bienville Parish Public Library. http://bienville.advantage-preservation.com/GetViewer?url=/viewer/?k=hinton&t=30818&i=t&d=01011850-12312015&m=between&ord=k1&fn=bienville_democrat_usa_louisiana_bienville_19250430_english_3&df=21&dt=30&PubdateId=39704090&file=%2Fviewer%2FGetPdfFile%3F39704090%23zoom%3Dpage-width: accessed 28 Oct 2020. 

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Diana Bryan Quinn.

Family photographs and documents from the collection of Marguerite Cook Clark. Accessed April 28, 2014, September 14, 2014, and November 9 to 11, 2016. Used with permission.

"Louisiana Confederate Pensions, 1898-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939F-VNWR-F?cc=1838535&wc=M61M-TM9%3A165044801 : 20 May 2014), Higgingbotham, Nelson - Hoffham, Isaac L > image 990 of 1445; Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge. Accessed 27 Oct 2020.

Wimberly, Vera. Wimberly Family History: Ancestors, Relatives, and Descendants of William Wimberly, Pioneer from Georgia to Louisiana, 1837. Houston, Tex.: D. Armstrong, 1979. Print.