The Black Tree: In search of John Womack

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

In search of John Womack - Clue#4

I am still waiting on the library to reply about John Womack, my Great, Great Grandfather. I search as far as I could on ancestry.com and other available sites and here is what I found:

The only thing I found before the 1900 Census was the he had other children. According to my Auntie Blondie "she can remember calling him Uncle John" which confused us both.

Hannah (Hubbard) - 1872

Levi - 1875

James - 1879

Eliza - 1883

Henry - 1886

Ras - 1888

Octavia (Roland) - 1898

Maggie (Payne) - 1896, my Great Grandmother

I learned that he had to have been in Texas by 1872, because Census show that is first child (?) Hannah/Hanah was born in Texas. I notice on all of the Census I reviewed shows that he was born in Georgia and then Mississippi. My question to the Marshall, Texas Public Library (300 South Alamo Blvd. Marshall, Texas 75670) is where he was possibly from. If I don't get a reply from the Marshall Public Library or if it is not the answer I was looking for I will then write the Washington D.C. National Archives though they have some of the same information. I have written them before and they have done a search and come up with a little more for just a small copy fee.

b 1835

married - Nellie Montague

lived in - Marshall, Harrison County

d 1924 at the age of 85

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About Me

Hello Family Tree Researcher, my name is Jacqueline Joyce Thomas (born to Gene E. Thomas and Brendel Joyce Lewis) of Texas in '67 . I began doing my family tree search when my son (C. Hicks) was born. He was unfortunately born with Nephrogenic Insipidus Diabetes. When he was two weeks old I could not get him to take his formula, the only thing he would drink was water. We took him to the local emergency room, where the hospital staff spent hours doing test after test and the end result were "we are still uncertain of what is wrong with your son". My heart fell to pieces. The next few days, still nothing. Finally on the forty-fifth day of his prolonged stay , they decided to care flight him to a Children's Hospital where it still took nineteen days for the final results and even then they were not sure. The doctor came into the room with his long white doctor's coat and his glasses hanging from his nose with the final thought (not answer). Ms. Hicks (at the time), "could you have a seat?" My thought was, okay then comes "is you son mixed with Caucasian?" My reply with anger and confusion in my heart was, mixed, with who?...not what but who! And not that I was cared or anything, I have mixed nieces and nephews. Then he went on to explain to me that "that type of diabetes was uncommon, and that it only occurred in every three thousand children" annnnndddd'ah-Rah...here is the killer..."that it only occurred in Caucasian males." Gathering my thoughts and physical seemed to be out of the question. It was not until he turned four years old that I begin getting more and more curious. So next to my son being born with a rare type of diabetes that only (according the doctor) in Caucasian males and me being adopted, I became one curious Sista'. The search began.