Looking towards the Past...
When looking to the past for answers to my identity, to that place from which my family has come, and to the historical footprints they have left behind; a considerable amount of time and energy has gone into investigation and to learning about my family's past.
I attribute much of what I know to the pages of a family bible which has been passed down for generations. Here, a rich heritage and genealogy has been carefully recorded, with each passing generation adding their names and brief details about "who," "what," some of "where," and "when." This has made it much easier for my purposes of piecing these items together with other sources of information I have been fortunate to identify.
I am glad to share a portion of the information that I have learned, and have included a table which presents the information I have regarding my mother's side of the family.
Current Generation:
* Jason Andrew Sumner (5th February, 1985)
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
Melanee Lee Orr (15th April, 1989)
Overland Park, Johnston County, Kansas
Parents:
Father - Edward Jay Sumner (17th June, 1961)
Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia
* Mother - Vickey Gaylene Brumbelow (7th January, 1961)
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia
Maternal Grandparents:
** Grandfather - Elmer Brumbelow (1st June, 1919 - 28th May, 1995)
Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia,
Second World War - Service Record:
United States Army - 45 Infantry Division - 159 Infantry Regiment
North Africa Campaign
Captured by German Forces (US Prisoner of War - Held in Stalag 2B in Hammerstien, Poland / Liberated in April of 1945)
* Grandmother - Lena Martha Ray Bennett (22nd May, 1922 - 15th June, 1981)
Cassville, Bartow County, Georgia
Great Grandparents:
Great Grandfather - Rev. John Henry Bennett (1888 - Unknown)
B. Anson County, North Carolina / D. Cassville, Bartow County, Georgia
* Great Grandmother - Pearl Vinnie Kimbrell (11th July, 1889 - 28th June, 1969)
B. Cassville, Bartow County, Georgia / D. Cassville, Bartow County, Georgia
2nd Great Grandparents:
* 2nd Gr. Grandfather - Thomas Kimsey Kimbrell (5th November, 1863 - 2nd July, 1931)
B. Cassville, Bartow County, Georgia / D. Cassville, Bartow County, Georgia
2nd Gr. Grandmother - Elizabeth "Lizzie" Bohannon (5th November, 1853 - 10th June, 1933)
B. Cassville, Cass County, Georgia / D. Cassville, Bartow County, Georgia
3rd Great Grandparents:
** 3rd Gr. Grandfather - Thomas Anderson Kimbrell (1839 - 16th January, 1865)
B. Habersham County, Georgia / D. Rock Island, Illinois - Confederate Prison Camp
American Civil War - Service Record:
Confederate States of America - Army of Tennessee:
52nd Georgia - Co. A. "Habersham Guards"
Barton's Brigade, Stephenson's Division, Army of Tennessee
Enlisted: 4th March, 1862
Company Mustered into Service: 16th May, 1862
Wounded at Cumberland Gap: 8th August, 1862
Presumed Killed or Missing at Lookout Mountain: 24th November, 1863 (Captured By Federals)
Died in the Confederate Prisoner of War camp located at Cook Island Illinois: 16th January, 1865 (Cause of Death, Dysentery)
3rd Gr. Grandmother - Martha Ann Smith (1841 - 22nd November, 1913)
B. Habersham County, Georgia / D. Cassville, Bartow County, Georgia
4th Great Grandparents:
* 4th Gr. Grandfather - John Anderson Kimbrell (1797 - 7th October, 1864)
B. Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina / D. ** Metter, Candler County, Georgia
** Metter is the currently incorporated Municipality, as is Candler County, both of which were established well after John's Death.
4th Gr. Grandmother - Elizabeth Collyer (1804 - Unknown)
B. Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina / D. Unknown
5th Great Grandparents:
** 5th Gr. Grandfather - Thomas Robert Kimbrell (1757 - 1835)
B. Dinwiddie County, Virginia / D. Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
American Revolution - Service Record:
Continental Army:
5th Virginia Regiment of Foot - Later Reduced to the 3rd Virginia Regiment of Foot
Commanded by General Peter Muhlenberg
Battle of Matson's Ford - Schuylkill River - Pennsylvania (11th December, 1777)
Battle of Monmouth Courthouse - New Jersey (28th June, 1778)
Battle / Siege / Capture of Yorktown - Virginia (September - October, 1781)
5th Gr. Grandmother - Polly Davis (1763 - 1842)
B. Dinwiddie County, Virginia / D. Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
6th Great Grandparents:
* 6th Gr. Grandfather - Robert Thomas Kimbrell (13th November, 1735 - 1780)
B. Middlesex County, Colonial Virginia / D. Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
6th Gr. Grandmother - Sarah Thomson (1735 - 1789)
B. Middlesex County, Colonial Virginia / D. Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina
7th Great Grandparents:
* 7th Gr.Grandfather - Peter Kimbrell (1705 - 1779)
B. Warren County, Carolina Colony / D. Warren County, North Carolina
7th Gr Grandmother - Winnifred "Winnie" Gillan (1720 - 1780)
B. Warren County, Carolina Colony / D. Warren County, North Carolina
8th Great Grandparents:
* 8th Gr. Grandfather - Joesph Mason Kimbrell (24th January, 1675 - 5th July, 1769)
B. Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts Colony / D. Warren County, North Carolina
8th Gr. Grandmother - Sarah Adams (1685 - 29th April, 1769)
B. Surry County, Colonial Virginia / D. Warren County, North Carolina
9th Great Grandparents:
* 9th Gr. Grandfather - Joesph Kimbrell (20th January, 1626 - 14th April, 1713)
B. Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts Colony / D. Surry County, Colonial Virginia
9th Gr. Grandmother- Virginia Rebecca Shearin (1673 - 1720)
B. Surry County, Colonial Virginia / D. Warren County, North Carolina
These records account for the Kimbrell Branch of my mother's side of the family and though there exists much room for error in the information compiled and presented here, I've done the best I can with the information available to establish a sound record of this portion of my family. The information I have obtained becomes much more difficult to understand an interpret beyond my 6th Great Grandparents.
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