American Ancestry 1889

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(Hathi Trust) American Ancestry: Giving the Name and Descent, in the Male Line, of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776, Volume IV, John Munsell's Sons, Publisher, 1889, Albany, NY. Vol IV, p.71, sketch of John Warburton Womack and son-in-law General Marcus Joseph Wright. (1889) - p.71 (following ancestry of Marcus Joseph Wright, husband of John's daughter Pauline)

WOMACK, JOHN WARBURTON, b. in Georgia Oct. 15, 1807, d. at Eutaw, Ala., Aug. 29, 1863, one of the leading lawyers of Alabama, and refused, on several occasions, distinguished political places (m. Mrs. Ann Miller Hays, nee Beville, b. Aug. 5, 1808, dau. of Woodliff Beville, b. Feb. 14, 1781, d. in Greene co., Ala., May 3, 1837 [m. Judith Brackett, b. July 20, 1783, d. at Eutaw, Ala., Oct. 10, 1857, dau. of Benj. Brackett, b. May 10, 1754]. Woodliff was son of James Beville, b. June 15, 1748); his sons Sidney and Lowndes were officers in the Confederate army and both died soon after the war, his eldest dau. Pauline m. Gen. Marcus J. Wright (q. v.), his other dau. Octavia resides in Washington, D. C.; son of Mansel, b. June 4, 1770, d. in Butler co., Ala., Dec 12, 1826 (m. Mary Maria Lewis, b. Feb. 25, 1773, d. in Butler Co., Ala., Feb. 12, 1856, dau. of Jacob Lewis, b. Jan. 23, 1746, and Sarah Avery Noland, b. Jan. 16, 1750, and desc. from Wm. Warburton, Bishop of Gloucester, author of numerous books, who d. 1779); son of Abraham, b. Apr 22, 1742, d. in Hancock co., Ga., Dec. 9, 1804 (m. Martha Mitchell, b. May 7, 1748); son of Richard, b. Dec 7, 1710, d. in Hancock co., Ga., July 23, 1785; son of Ashby, b. Aug. 15, 1683, d. in Prince Edward co., Va., Feb. 4, 1776, came from England to Virginia in 1716, son of Edward, b. Mar 12, 1653, d. in Suffolk, Eng., Sep. 8, 1723; son of Lawrence, b. in Suffolk, Eng., May 23, 1612, d. there Nov. 7, 1685, bishop of Suffolk.

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NOTE: Much of this information is a fraudulent genealogy. Other information has been disproved. For example, John Warburton Womack's grandfather, Abraham Womack, is listed as dying on 9 Dec 1804, but he actually died between 2 June 1797, when he made his will, and 1 Sep 1797, when an inventory was taken of "the goods and chattels of the Estate of Abraham Womack late deceased". The birth and death dates given here of Richard Womack III, supposedly born 7 Dec 1810 and supposedly died 23 July 1785, are very dubious.

Note that this biography of John Warburton Womack claims his descent from two different Church of England Bishops, William Warburton (explaining John Warburton Womack's middle name) and Lawrence Womack. Not coincidentally, William Warburton was the only Warburton, and Lawrence Womack the only Womack, in Lempriere's Universal Biography, a book cited by by John Warburton Womack in his 1850 letter to a cousin.