William Lavander Pope, son of Abner Monroe Womack and Mary Ann Cantrell, was born on 19 October 1855 in Warren County, Tennessee and passed away on 1 April 1947[1] in McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee.
He married Mildred Ann Hennessee on 6 December 1877 in Warren County, Tennessee.[2][3][4] They had 8 children known to me.
Census History
1900 Federal - The family was living in Warren County, Tennessee.[5] Lavander was head of household and a farmer. In the household with him were his wife, Mildred, and children Clara, Elmer B., Claude, Lee Roy, Alice, and Alton. Two children died young: W. Monroe Womack was born and died in 1880; Flora Bell Womack was born and died in 1891.
Burial
Both William L. P. Womack and Mildred Ann (Hennessee) Womack are buried in Riverside Cemetery, McMinnville, Warren County, Tennessee.
Sources
↑ Name: William Lavander Pope Womack Birth Date: 19 Oct 1855 Birth Place: Warren, Tennessee Age: 91 Death Date: 1 Apr 1947 Death Place: Mcminnville, Warren, Tennessee Burial Date: 3 Apr 1947 Burial Place: Mcminnville, Warren, Tennessee Cemetery Name: Riverside Gender: Male Race: White Marital status: Widowed Residence Place: McMinnville, Warren, Tennessee Occupation: Farmer Father's Name: Monroe Womack Father's Birth Place: Dekalb, Tennessee Mother's Name: Mary Cantrell Mother's Birth Place: Dekalb, Tennessee Spouse's Name: Mildred Ann Hennessee FHL Film Number: 2137382; TN Death Cert #9251
↑ Womack, Walter, comp.; Womack Family Marriages, Warren County, TN - 1852 to 1900; Womack Genealogy, Vol. 4, No. 2, December 1960, p 139. "W.L.P. Womack to M.H. Hennessee; License issued Dec. 6, 1877; Shadrack Green, M.G.; Bondsmen: W.L.P. Womack, Shadrack Green."
↑ "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X8YG-TMN : 21 December 2016), W. L. P. Womack and M H Hennessee, 06 Dec 1877; citing , Warren, Tennessee, United States, Marriage, p. , Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville and county clerk offices from various counties; FHL microfilm 571,562.
↑ "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VN8X-7TY : 4 December 2014), W L P Womack and M H Hennessee, 06 Dec 1877; from "Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002," database and images, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2008); citing p. 434, Warren, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee.
↑ Civil District 13, Warren, Tennessee; Roll: 1603; Page: 7A; Enumeration District: 0146; FHL microfilm: 1241603. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDWJ-8PX : 15 July 2017), Levander Womack, District 13, Warren, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district ED 136, sheet 408A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm 1,255,284.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNGT-7BS : accessed 26 May 2020), Lavander Womack, Civil District 13, Warren, Tennessee, United States; citing ED 136, sheet 5B, line 89, family 107, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1769; FHL microfilm 1,821,769.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4HF-N63 : 29 July 2019), L P Womack, Daylight, Civil District 13, Warren, Tennessee, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 89-20, sheet 7A, line 36, family 128, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3943.
"Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N9LF-VD9 : 26 August 2019), William Lavander Pope Womack, 1 Apr 1947; Death, McMinnville, Warren, Tennessee, United States, Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.
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