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Kimbro Cemetery
TE Photor, 2000 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Originally named Cottonwood, the town
was named after Lemuel Kimbro, who had recieved the land in a grant awarded in
the 1830s. A post office was established in 1901 and discontinued the following
year. In 1907 Kimbro had a school with thirty-nine students which was eventually
consolidated with other neighboring schools to form the Manda common school district.
Kimbro had a population of twenty-five in the 1930s and has stayed at 50 for the
last 50 years.
The surnames on the graves in the cemetery at Kimbro (pictured
above) shows that the community was heavily Swedish. Barely detectable over the
tombstone is the distant steeple of the New Sweden church. |
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