Hello, my name is Kemper Kimberlin and I live on the ranch
> my great-grandfather W.G. Kimberlin established after the
> civil war...outside of Pauls Valley, OK. The ghost town
> community is Whitebead, formerly White Bead Hill. This
> site has him listed as dying in Texas in 1914. Just wanted
> to straighten that out.
>
> W.G. was ran over by a roller skater (delivery boy) on the
> wooden sidewalks of Pauls Valley in 1927. That year they
> prohibited the use of roller skates on sidewalks in the city
> ordinance (I have the book). He died here in the home that
> is still standing soon after the accident...the home can be
> seen by doing a google search under Grant Kimberlin Home
> Whitebead. I would have to run up to the cemetery to see the
> date of death, but it was in 1927. Thought I would help
> clear this up.
>
> While coming to Indian Territory, he served as a cook's
> helper on a wagon train for passage. During the drive, while
> making coffee, a fiddleback spider bit him on the leg and
> put him on crutches. The brand of the ranch became three
> symbols...a crutch, a K and a coffee pot. I still have an
> original brand of the coffeepot. When his first house burned
> in 1896 he built a much larger one. When the first house
> burned, he had a safe downtown in a building, therefore some
> writings and letters and documents pre-dating the new house
> survived and are still in the big house, where the safe was
> moved to.
>
> He did have stock in a bank in Sherman, TX, that failed in
> the 80's. His brothers(s) engaged with him in Texas in
> ranching. One brother for a time operated a crossing at Red
> River Crossing, south of Terrell, OK. Two little Kimberlin
> girls are buried there.
>
> I have a manuscript of I.J. Kimberlin that describes the
> freighting they did with their dad, Richard Samuel, prior to
> the Jayhawker invasions, and the papers describe his life
> thru the civil war and his involvement in the Walker Farm
> Incident. Frank James, who was rostered with W.G. and
> another Brother (Shelby/Marmaduke div) with Quarntrill,
> often came to vitit Mr. K. here at Whitebead and on one
> occasion he robbed the Miller-Green store on the way out of
> the area.