Thomas Womack (abt. 1784 - abt. 1809)

Born about 1784 in Little Peedee River, Rutherford, North Carolina, United States

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Died about 1809 at about age 25 in Rutherford County, North Carolina

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Biography

Thomas Womack was born about 1784 in Rutherford County, North Carolina.He is the son of William Womack and Lucy Womack. He passed away about 1809 in Rutherford County.

Very little is known about Thomas. A few mentions can be found in publications about a son named Thomas, or Lewis, who was born in 1777, married Minimy (or Manima Padgett), and died about 1809 leaving two children: daughter Leanner, (or Leah) Womack, born about 1806, and son Isom (or Isham) Rice Womack, born about 1808.^[1]

No other record has been found for Thomas, or Lewis, or Thomas Lewis in Rutherford County.

Rutherford Co, NC Court Minutes 1799-1817 unpaged, but Image 475 of 820 on ancestry.com. July Court 1809 On motion ordered that Letters of Administration issue to Minimy Womack and Edmond Padgett on the Goods Chattels Rights and Credits of Thos Womack decd who give bond with John Ellison in the sum of $250 and was duly Qualified, Returned an Inventory of the said Estate and and prays order of Sale on the said Deceased Estate. } Letters & orders issued. The Court appointed Daniel Gold Esq John Ellison & Isaac Waggoner to lay off one years provision to Minimy Wamack widow of Thomas Wamack Deceased agreeable to an act of assembly in the case made and provided (issued).

In Francis Marion Womack's memoir, he said of his Uncle Thomas Womack: "Thomas Womack had a wife and two children. He died. I never knew what became of his wife and children." (https://sites.google.com/site/womackgen/early-research/early-histories/francis-marion-womack-memoir)

Research Notes

This Thomas is often listed as son of Thomas Womack and Louvisa Rice. However, the evidence indicates he is not their son, but the son of their daughter Lucy Womack and her husband William Womack.

It appears as if all the references to Thomas, or Lewis, can be traced to two publications: The Descendants of Thomas and Louvisa Rice Womack by Oscar B. Womack (1970) and Reminiscences of Christenberry Lee 1823-1895 published in installments in the Forest City Courier from October 6, 1938 to January 19, 1939.^[2]

From The Descendants of Thomas and Louvisa Rice Womack, p. 15:

8. Thomas Womack, b. ca 1777 in N.C., m. Minimy -----, and died In Rutherford Co., N.C. about 1809. Some think this son's name was George instead of Thomas or that there may have also been a son, George.

From Reminiscences of Christenberry Lee 1823-1895, Chapter Six, p. 14ff:

Thomas Womack had a son Lewis. If he had other sons I have not been able to get their names. Mrs. Louisa Smart, who is about sixty-five years old, tells me that when she was a little girl she knew a man by the name of Willis Womack and that his name was Anderson and from the best data I can get I conclude that Anderson Womack was the son of Thomas Womack, who came to North Carolina from Virginia in the year 1779, and that Willis Womack was a brother of Lewis Womack, who married Manima Padgett, or Hollifield. The Hollifields and Padgetts intermarried a good deal along about that time. ... Lewis Womack lived only a few years after his marriage and died, leaving two children, Isham and Leah. These two persons are the first of the Womack family, of whom I have any recollection. Leah married Samson McDaniel, who was the father of our present honored citizen, Guilford McDaniel, Esq. Isham Womack married Betty Bailey, to whom were born sons and daughters who are yet among us.

Sources

1. ↑ Womack Genealogy, Thomas Womack
2. ↑ Published weekly in Forest City, Rutherford County, North Carolina from 1910-1939.

• Source: SDescendants Womack, Oscar B., Descendants of Thomas and Louvisa Rice Womack; The Ben Lomond Press, McMinnville, TN 1970, pp 26-27 Online version: http://dubbie.tripod.com/thomas/text.html

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