KIMBROUGH, WILLIAM (ca. 1810-1856). William Kimbrough (Kimbro, Kimbo), soldier and law officer, was born in Bedford County, Tennessee, and moved to Texas in 1831 with his wife, Sarah, and son. They settled in David G. Burnet'sqv colony about five miles west of the site of present San Augustine. In September 1835, with the coming of the Texas Revolution,qv Kimbrough raised a company of volunteer infantry in the area and served as its captain in Col. Sidney Sherman'sqv Second Regiment, Texas Volunteers. After San Jacinto, Kimbrough was captain of the militia company of the Northwest Beat of San Augustine County. He served as sheriff of San Augustine County from 1836 through 1838, was elected sheriff on February 1, 1841, and held the office until 1843. He was reelected in 1847 but did not serve through his term. In 1850 he was farming in San Augustine County and was elected justice of the peace of Beat Four. In 1853 he moved to Anderson County, where he lived until his death, on September 14, 1856. He was buried in Palestine, and in 1936 the Texas Centennialqv Commission marked his grave with a historical marker.
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Thomas W. Cutrer
