JOHN
TIPTON WOMACK
Aug.
8, 1929 – Apr. 8, 1909
Compiler
has seen name AKA John Benton
The
following letter was written to Thomas Monroe Womack (son of John Womack,
grandson of David Womack of Gadsden County, Florida) at Gaars Mill, LA. and was
written by John Tipton Womack of Facklin, AL.
It is dated 14 Apr 1896.
It was
submitted to me by Lee Womack (now deceased) of Edmonds, OK about 15 years ago.
Although
most Womack researchers have discounted the 3 brothers who immigrated to this
country, for good reason as this line has now been proved back to William the
immigrant. It is an interesting
letter. (Roger Womack compiler of this genealogy)
My Dear
Sir.
Your
letter written to my Brother Rev. B. R. Womack, (Benjamin Robert Womack)
Sulpher Springs Texas is before me, Sent to me by my Brother with request
to write you. First in reply, If your Womacks as a rule have large noses &
blue eyes, we are kin people as those are leading characteristics of us Womacks.
I have but
little true history of our family & especially of our for parentagy, but
from the best information I have ever been able to get is, that sometime between
the years 1600 and 1700 there were three Brothers came from Scotland to this
country but I have no acct. of whare they settled, but one of them died after
coming here without posterity. The other two married here to populate the new
world, this continent, of these three I know no more, nor do I know
anything till down to my Grandfather whose name was William or Abner, I now
disremember which. I think he married in N. C. or at least there he raised his
family, consisting of seven
boys &
about two girls. The girls I never did see. The boys all came to Tenn from N. C.
& in that State I think they all married & afterwards came to Ala. The names of my Uncles & Father were as
follows. Josiah, Isham (he was call Isam), Jessie, William (called Buck), Abner
(my Father), Levi and Asa.
Something remarkable about our Womacks is, that as far back as I have any
knowledge their families have nearly all been boys, and there are now some of
our Womacks in every Southern State. Usually (?) it is in La. & Fla. Some
are in some are in [sic]some of the Western States & I think in some of the
Northern States. To say the least they are indeed very numerous. My Father & Uncles are all dead. Some
of them lived to be quite old.
My last Uncle (Levi) died the 27 of last June at the ripe age of 94 years
& 20 days. My Father was born 1799 and died in 1849, comparatively young. He
raised 8 boys two of whom died at the threshold of manhood.
He raised but one girl. The first & The Third boys are dead. Six of
us living. I the oldest, B. R. the Baby.
I have
learned that one John Womack was in The War of 76. One of my Uncles fought in
the war 1812. Uncle
Buck, I think was first of our Womacks ever spread to the North. I had never
heard of any Womacks coming a cross the waters except those I have mentioned
untill I read your letter last night.
As to Womack preachers, we have two in Tenn. that I know of, and in (?)
and in Middle Tenn. What
are you, a Baptist?
I hope you
may get some information from this to which you have (?) been a stranger.
Write me
if it your pleasure. I am very Respectifully, yours
J. T.
Womack
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John
Tipton was a Confederate Veteran.
He was in the 2nd Alabama Infantry and spent 12 months at Fort
Morgan in
Mobile Bay Alabama. After the war, He and Jerusha ran the Jackson
County Poorhouse. In 1888 He moved with his family to South Pittsburg
Tennessee where he ran a boarding house. The old picture Sharon has of
the family is at that house (I
think).
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