According to official records, Abraham O. Wimberly, one-time town marshal, died in a jail cell on March 1, 1899, and was buried in Church Point. According to family legend, he was long gone from the cell on March 1 and they buried a casket filled with bricks.
I started rooting out old newspaper accounts after Gene Thibodeaux chronicled much of this as part of a larger story on Wimberly lawmen in ...