I am so overwhelmed right now! The feeling I am experiencing is absolutely incredible. Why am I feeling so?
Today I received in the mail a book that I’d ordered. The book is “Echoes of Edgecombe County: 1860-1940″ by Monika S. Fleming. I ordered the book because one set of my ancestors, Rufus Tannahill McNair and Maria Wimberly McNair were from Edgecombe County. I have been interested in trying to find out more about their possible slaveowners (which I have posted about before). Well, part of my theory is that Maria’s parents were Allen Wimberly & Della Battle.
In this book by Ms. Fleming, pg. 92 has a picture of a Dred Wimberly, born around 1848 and was a former slave of the James S. Battle Family/Battle Plantation. This is the same plantation that Allen Wimberly was part of.
After seeing this entry, I went back and reviewed my notes that I have on the Wimberly family and I can say that based on what I have, I am of the opinion that Dred is the brother of my 3rd great-grandmother, Mariah. I have a major training session at work tomorrow that I have to prepare for, so I can’t research this as much as I normally would have tonight, but I cannot wait to get back to this! Based on some quick Google searching, I have found many other leads for resources I need to secure to keep learning more about Dred. This is so cool.
I think that I would like to formally write up how I’ve come to these conclusions and the research I’ve done and get it professionally examined.