Eager K. Kimbrel was the son of Millie, Milbray, Annice (Cook) Kimbrel and Jeremiah K. "Dink" Kimbrel.
Eager K. Kimbrel had two sisters and eleven brothers:

[1] Infant Son Kimbrel, 1874, 1874
[2] Leroy Kimbrel, 1879, 1952
[3] Infant son Kimbrel, 1879, 1879
[4] Infant son G.F. Kimbrel, 1882, 1882
[5] Gertude Kimbrel, 1884, 1977
[6] Luther Kimbrel, 1885, 1955
[7] Nancy Kimbrel, 1888, 1974
[8] John Kimbrel, 1891, 1957
[9] William Wright Kimbrel, 1893, 1976
[10] James Gary Kimbrel, 1894, 1947
[11] Julian Kimbrel, 1897, 1951
[12] Charles W. Kimbrel, 1901, 1943
[13] Perry Kimbrel, 1904, 1974

Eager K. Kimbrel was the husband of:
[1] Polly Eva (Wells) Kimbrel.
[2] Ozelma (Merritt) Kimbrel.

Eager K. Kimbrel had no children.

Eager Kimbrel, Polly Eva (Wells) Kimbrel and Ozelma Kimbrel Biography

Eager Kimbrel was Millie Milbria Annice (Cook) Kimbrel, and Jeremiah K. (Dink) Kimbrel’s twelfth child, but ninth living child. Eager Kimbrel was born in Miller County, Georgia on October 26, 1900. William McKinley was our 25th. President when Eager was born. Eager Kimbrel was born on October 26, 1900 and his first wife was Polly Eva Wells, was born on January 4, 1904. Eager and Polly Eve were married on September 15, 1918, Eager was only 18 years old and Polly Eva was only 14 -1/2, years old. Their marriage was a marriage of love, but it only lasted five months. Polly Eve (Wells) Kimbrel died on February 21, 1919 and she was only 15 years old and was laid to rest at the Pilgrims Rest Church cemetery. Ten months later Eager married Ozelma Merritt on December 7, 1919. Eager was 19 years old and Ozelma was 16 years old when they got married. In the early years of Eager and Ozelma’s marriage, they both worked hard tending the land his father gave him. Ozelma was an immaculate and organized housekeeper and Eager loved music and dancing, so their house became the place for peanut shelling and community square dancing which were popular in those days. After some years Eager sold his land on Avenue Road in Miller County, and they bought a farm on Cook Town Road in Miller County. Not having children of their own they were like second parents to Laverne Kimbrel and her sister Elvie Kimbrel especially after their mother Lucy Kimbrel died. Ozelma took the two girls places and watched over them. Some of the girls in the community were having Prom Parties at their homes with a fire outside to roast hot dogs and marshmallows and by some method the boys were paired with the girls and would walk down the moonlit country road to a certain place and then walk back, and then walked another girl so it was an enjoyable way for shy boys and girls to talk. Eager and Ozelma held a couple of these parties for Laverne and Elvie. When Laverne’s first child was born Ozelma went up to Laverne’s house in Albany Georgia and stayed with her for a week to help her. At some point Eager started spending money on the wrong things to have fun and not taking care of his business and they got behind paying their debts. As they were in financial trouble Ozelma ask Eager to put the land in her name and let her handle the money and that she would pull them through, which she did. Ozelma kept telling Eager that if he did not stay away from those places that he was spending all of their money that she would divorce him, and she finally did just that giving him his personal belongings, Eva’s picture and trunk, a bed, table, and a few straight chairs. Eagers family gave him more, so that he moved into a vacant house. Some of the Kimbrel family never spoke to Ozelma again. Eager started doing odd jobs to make a living. Eager and Ozelma had no children and were divorced thirty plus years after their marriage. Eager held on to an enlarged picture of Polly Eve and a trunk full of Polly Eve’s possessions even after he married his second wife Ozelma and Polly Eve’s picture was hanging on the wall in their guest bedroom with Polly Eve’s trunk beneath it. When Ozelma would go to Florida to visit her mother, Eager would take all of Polly Eve’s clothes out of the trunk and hang them on the clothesline to air out, attempting to preserve them and keep them from molding. In his last years Eager started going to the Pentecostal Church when he could get a ride. He enjoyed the lively music and services. Though he was deeply hurt when Ozelma remarried he never showed anger or bitterness. Ozelma married Joe, Clarence Brown and lived in Miller County until Clarence Brown died on December 21, 1964 at age 71 and was laid to rest at the Bellview Church cemetery in Miller County. Later Ozelma met and married Emmitt Lynn and they were married until Ozelma died on June 18, 1987 and was laid to rest near Clarence Brown at the Bellview cemetery, Ozelma was 84 years old. Ozelma did not have any children with either marriage. Eager was a kind, humbled man who was always a pleasure to have around. He once told Laverne that Ozelma told him that he would reap what he sowed, but he had reaped more than he sowed. Laverne told Eager, “that is the law of sowing and reaping. We plant seed expecting them to multiply”. Eager ask Lavern if she still spoke to Ozelma and Laverne told him that she did because both of them had been very good to her and that she treated Ozelma as she always had. Eager’s answer was, “that is what I want you to do”. Eager died at night all alone on February 10, 1961, Eager was 60 years old when he died, and was laid to rest at the Cooks Union cemetery. Polly Eve’s picture was still hanging in the room with her trunk beneath the picture. The picture and trunk were carried to Eagers older sister Gertrude’s workshop in Colquitt, Georgia. Polly Eve’s sister ask Gertrude for the picture, but she did not want the clothes in the trunk. Laverne (Kimbrel) Shaw, Eager and Gertrude’ niece ask Gertrude if she could look through the contents of the trunk. Laverne said that she found petticoats, drawers, skirts, and blouses and other articles, but the clothes could have been washed and worn because Eager had taken such good care of them. If you had known Eager you would never have thought of him as romantic, but it looked as if his first wife was the love that continued on after death had separated them.

By: Laverne ‘Kimbrel’ Shaw, and Cousin Ralph Kimbrel 47951000