Historical Marker
Captain William Kimbro
Palestine, Anderson County · Texas
Erected 1936
According to the San Jacinto Museum of History biography, as a descendant's blog quotes it, William Kimbro, listed there as Kimbrough, was born about 1810 in Bedford County, Tennessee. He reached Texas in 1831 with his wife, Sarah, and settled in David G. Burnet's colony west of present San Augustine. In September 1835 he raised a volunteer infantry company that served in Colonel Sidney Sherman's Second Regiment. He later captained a militia company in San Augustine County's Northwest Beat, was sheriff in 1836 to 1838 and 1841 to 1843, and moved to Anderson County in 1853.
What the plaque says
Captain William Kimbro In Memory of Commanded a company at San Jacinto; came to Texas in 1831; born in Tennessee; died in Anderson County, September 14, 1856.
Where it stands
31.76319, -95.62246 · Directions
Worth the stop nearby
- Texas State Railroad Excursion Train — 3.5 miA round trip of about 25 miles of track between the Palestine and Rusk depots through the Piney Woods, on a line built by prison labor and reopened as a tourist railroad in 1976.
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