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AMARILLO NEWS-GLOBE, SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1932.Only Texas Survivor■Of QuantrelVs BandLives in Clarendoncame to Texas during the war between the states and decided to make Texas his permanent home. | He removed to Donley County in 1905, raised the first cotton here and built the first gin for it.By SARAH M. STOCKING CLARENDON, May 21.—One of the last surviving members of the famous Quantrell Band of guerrilla fighters during the Civil War, perhaps the only survivor in Texas who fought with Frank and Jesse James to avenge the death of their parents is Col. R. S. Kimberlin, 86, of this city.A pioneer and prominent citizen* of this community, Col. KimberlinHeads Colieae• a15. E. MASTERSBom fin Texas.Bom in the village of Texas, near Frankfort, Ky., on October 17, 1846, a distant cousin of Abraham Lincoln, Col. Kimberlin moved to Mis aouri with his parents when six years of age. They settled at Blue Springs. At the time Kansas City consisted of a one-room general supply store built of rough pine lumber. The location was in the heart of a vast frontier.iyiILike other adventuresome pioneers, the elder Kimberlin engaged in ox team freighting and operated between Kansas City and Santa Fe.Recalls War Days.“During my early teens,” recalls Colonel Kimberlin, “I often accompanied father on these trips. I remember that the country through which we passed was one swaying, moving mass of buffaloes as far as the eye could see. They drifted before our teams in such congested numbers as to impede our progress. The freighters often were compelled to call a halt unty a rift was made in the herd sufficiently large to enable us to resume our journey/*tcI Pba8PPcin54Ie e: c! dr!S]d a UIIWild turmoil spread over the North and the South in the late 50?s as word of secession was echoed over the land. The uprising of John Brown and cohorts and the Harper*s ferry incident served to add fresh fuel to the fires.Father Hanged.Guerrilla warfare was spread into Missouri by Jim Lane whose band swept down into Missouri burning and murdering in a wide path.Striking at Kansas City, Lane and his followers fired the town. Only three buildings were left intact. The elder Kimberlin was murdered when the raiders hanged him to the rafters in his own barn. *16-Year-Old Soldier.“My mother and an aunt were driven out into a blinding snowstorm while our home was reduced to ashes, and myself and two brothers were locked in an Old blacksmith shop/' Colonel Kimberlin related.“We three boys filed our way outof the makeshift prison and enlisted in the Confederate army. I was 16 years old when I joined the Confederates on May 8, 1861.*'Serves Four Years.The youngster Kimberlin served the entire lour years of the great conflict and was wounded twice. At one time he operated under the leadership of the famous Quantrell in company with the James broth-eri^whose parents suffered the atroOT^ of Kimberlin’s. The three swore vengeance against the perpetrators of the crime.And revenge was sweet for the trio when Quantrell’s band of 350 men engaged Lane’s following ofa battle near Pleasant Hill, Mo wpne’s forces lost heavily and retreated. During a later encounter at Baxter Spring, Lane and several hundred of his men were killed.Moves to Panhandle.At the close of the Civil War, Colonel Kimberlin was under the command of Gen. Joe Shelby in Texas. He decided to remain in the new country. Later, in partnership with his two brothers, he entered business at Sherman and operated under the firm name of the Kimberlin Land Sc Cattle Company. A few years later, acquiring land in the Panhandle, Colonel Kimberlin removed to Clarendon where he opened a lumber yard and began to improve his farms in the Bricecommunity.In 1910, Colonel Kimberlin invited about 40 of his old comrades here for a three-day reunion. From all parts of the country the old soldiers came and bivouaced on the spacious lawn of the Kimberlin home here. On the final day the home was thrown open for veterans of both North and South in che Civil War and hundreds of townsmen attended.Frank James addressed the assembled audience in the high school auditorium. He explained how he was drawn into the maelstrom ofFor three years. Dr. ii. E. Masters, president, has piloted the Amarillo College through the clays when it was a small struggling school with only a few score students to the present time when it will graduate almost 70 young people.LARGEST CLASS(Continued from Page 1)Mathers, Gretchen May Morris, Frances Merriman, Margaret Mich-elson, Ruth Metcalf, Dorothy Miller, Regina Miller, Helen Mode, Rosina Moore, Vera Murchison, Elaine Myers, Bernadine Neal, Dorothy Neu-hardt, Virginia Nobles, Emma Nun-gesser, Jane Nutting, Ixis Oden, Elizabeth Owen.Lucille Palmer, Dovie Parker, Pauline Parks, Dorothy Peterson, Kathleen Phillips, Clara Pirschel, Norene Plemmons, Katherine Potts, Annette Powell, Hazel Reaves, Lula Mae Reaves. Velma Lee Redus, OpalsnfsIaRenegar, Dorothy Reynolds, Elizabeth Reynolds, Geraldine Rhodes, Bob Ricks, Juanita Rigdon, Marjorie Reach, Marie Roberts, Janie B. Rogers, Ernestine Rollins, Verdelie Rury, Betsey Sanders, Rosemary Selover, Gladys Seymour, Jane Shaw, Mildred Somerville, Floy Sparks, Maxine Stevens, Alice Stovall, Dorothy Street, Arlene Thompson, Bonnie Timmons, Nina Mae Trice, Alice Vaughan, Betty Walden, Geneva Walker, Naomi Walker, Zelma Walls, Lizzie M. Wasson.fracICe\lt;r1cc1*3c$]Mildred Whisenand, Marie Whitehead, Clella Wilkinson, Bethine Williams, Ferne Williams, Gladys Williams, Tenne Sue Williams, Madge Wlngo, Edith Wise, Josephine Woodlief, Kathryne Woods and Marie Woods.John Adams, David Allen, Manson Allen, Ned Amey, George Anderson, Jack Armstrong, William Arnold, Walter Atkins, Richard Baker, Clyde Ballard, Quinton Barksdale, Richard Barry, Charles Bates, Ber-trum Black, Henry George Blasdel, George Bowden, Jack Burnam, Gene Busick, Woodfin Camp, Yuma Campbell, Maurice Canon.lt;Leslie Cazzell, Chappel Clay, Howard Clemmons, Tommy Clop ton, C. L. Cochran, C. D. Coffee, Jr., Everett Cook, Jackson Cook, Ariey Cooper, Floyd Cox, Charlie Crouch, Arden Cullen, John Currie, Harold Dale, Wayne DeGrassi, J. B. Dotson, William Dowd, William Durham, Maurice Dye, Paul Elder.Nelson Ellis, Woods Ellison, Arnold Elo, Gottfried Elo, Woodrow Erikson, Joe Fender, Eugene Fen-nimore, Hugh Fincher, Leigh Fischer, Donald Fish, Earl Fisher, Davidrobbers after he* ana his family were subjected to the losses and sufferings of the Civil War.Colonel Kimberiin’s last reunion with old comrades was at a surprise birthday party given here by his granddaughter, Miss D. Laurel Seville, when among the guests were W. H. Martin, J. M. Middleton and T. J. Roberts,
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