Jeremiah K. (Dink) Kimbrel was born on January 13, 1854. Franklin Pierce, the 14 th. President of the United States was in office when Jeremiah K. (Dink) KImbrel was born.

Jeremiah K. (Dink) Kimbrel was the son of Clarrissa (Sawyer) Kimbrel and Jeremiah Kimbrel.

Jeremiah K. (Dink) Kimbrel had three sisters and six brothers:

[1] Charles W. Kimbrel 1844 - 1882
[2] Molisa Kimbrel 1846
[3] Rebecca Kimbrel 1848
[4] Walter (Walker) Kimbrel 1849 - 1873
[5] James M. Kimbrel 1851 -1938
[6] Jeremiah K. "Dink" Kimbrel 1854 - 1929
[7] Andrew Kimbrel 1858
[8] Clara Kimbrel 1862
[9] Echabod (EK) Kimbrel 1863 - 1898
[10] Infant Kimbrel 1869

See his Siblings below.

Jeremiah K. (Dink) Kimbrel was the husband of Millie Milbray Annice (Cook) Kimbrel.

Millie Milbray Annice (Cook) Kimbrel and Jeremiah K. (Dink) Kimbrel were the parents of fourteen Children:

[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) Chapman, 1884 - 1977
[6] Luther Kimbrel, 1885 - 1955
[7] Nancy (Kimbrel) Sheffield, 1888 - 1974
[8] John Kimbrel, 1891 - 1957
[9] Wright Kimbrel, 1893 - 1976
[10] James Gary Kimbrel, 1894 - 1947
[11] Julian Kimbrel, 1897 - 1951
[12] Eager K. Kimbrel, 1900 - 1961
[13] Charles W. Kimbrel, 1901 - 1943
[14] Perry Kimbrel, 1904 - 1974

Biography provided by Ralph Kimbrel, 47951000.

Miller County Georgia became a county on February 26, 1856 or two years after Jeremiah K. Dink Kimbrel was born on January 13, 1854. Jeremiah Dink Kimbrel was one of ten children of Clarrisa (Sawyer) and Jeremiah Kimbrel. The Miller County was taken from parts of Early County and Baker County when the State of Georgia was broken up into smaller counties. The Kimbrel farm had already been settled by his father Jeremiah and grandfather Charles William Kimbrel, sometime between 1840 and 1850 when the Kimbrel family were pioneers that moved from an area near Sardis in Burke County Georgia and settled in Early County Georgia. The area that they settled in was in the western section of what is now Miller County and was near what is now referred to as Whites Bridge on what was then referred to as the Brinson road and back then the land that the Kimbrel’s settled was referred to as the Goat Farm. Millie Milbria Annice Cook’s family and the Kelly family moved from Robeson County, North Carolina to Baker County Georgia with William Hawthorne a Baptist preacher and explorer in the early 1800s, became the first settler in the area and cut a forty-mile trail through it. Building a home for his family at Tired Creek three miles south of the current city of Cairo in Grady County, Georgia. Hawthorne encouraged other friends from North Carolina to come to Georgia and begin the settlement at Miller's Station. The threat of attack from the Seminole Indians who lived in the north Florida swamps meant that all men between the ages of sixteen and sixty served in the local militia.
Millie Milbria Annice Cook and Jeremiah K. Dink Kimbrel soon met and were married.
From this union was born 14 children, 2 daughters and 12 sons and even though 3 sons were lost in infancy 11 children survived to become adult Kimbrel’s. Dink and Milbra settled in Miller County on their own property about 1880 on what is now known as Avenue Road and lived in a pioneer style log cabin that had a large room with a fireplace and a smaller room on the back where meals were cooked and served. The meals were mostly cooked on the fireplace. Uncle LeRoy pointed out a notch that Milbra cut into the front door post and told him where he was to stand from time to time while she was out in the nearby field working and he was to watch and when the morning sun was even with that notch he would go out to get her and she would come in and cook the noon meal. They were both hard working people who soon acquired more land. As their family grew they built another larger house on up the road and then another house after that one caught fire and burned. Then they built another house after the third house caught fire and burned. Back then the houses were built of wood and wooden shingles and one spark could cause a fire and burn the house down. It was said that Jeremiah Dink was very mild tempered where as Milbra was quick to act. One of the young children once ran under the house to escape a switching, she went into the house, brought out her pistol and started firing under the house where she knew that he wasn’t hiding but the noise was so loud that he ran out from under that house as fast as he could and took his punishment. There was always a crowd of young men field workers and his on young men at their house and some of them lived there sometimes. The kitchen was the farthest room away from the bedroom and the boys all brought out their musical instruments and played country music and sing the songs in the kitchen, there was also an organ in the front room that most of them could also play. Jeremiah was a hardworking man and was one of the big land owners of his day. He had worked out enough farm land to give each of his 11 children 100 to 120 acres of land each which were considered a 4 or 5 horse farm back then. The problem was that he gave them the land when they were too young, 20 to 21 years old which was a good start for them, but they were too young to know how to manage their inheritance. They borrowed money using their land as collateral and when the economy went bad they could never repay the loan and they lost their land. Only his daughter Nancy was able to hold on to her land.
Jeremiah Dink was always thinking of ways to make honest money, Jeremiah and two other landowners who also had boys organized the Southeastern Sheep Organization. They purchased a large bunch of sheep which were grazed on open land even in some of the other counties. The sheep were helpless creatures and had to be watched day and night so some of the Kimbrel boys and boys from the other two landowners would herd them while riding their horses during the day from one grass area to another area where the grass was greener and at night they would sleep on the ground with their heads on their saddle blanket for a pillow and they would cook their own food over campfires. At some point the sheep business was dissolved and they went back to farming. Then there was a man from Baker County who was older and better traveled than Jeremiah Dink that got him to furnish the money to buy a train boxcar load of mules. Jeremiah sent his son John Kimbrel with the man to St. Lewis, MO around the first week of January and John always talked about how cold it was in St. Lewis area. They road back on a freight train having to take care of and water and feed the box car load of mules. When they arrived in Colquitt it had already been advertised that there would be mules for sell on that day, so the farmers were waiting to buy what they needed. Don’t know if the mule business was profitable on not but that was the last time that Jeremiah was in the mule selling business. So, Jeremiah Dink Kimbrel sought other ways to make money.

Biography provided by Laverne Kimbrel Shaw and Ralph Kimbrel - 47951000