Death Certificate of Alexander Crockett Womack

 The death certificate of Alexander Crockett Womack is in the Arkansas Death Certificate, 1914-1969, collection on Ancestry.  The digitized film is '1919, 049-063', and his death certificate is at image 851 of 2922.

It says that 'A C Wammac' died 9 Nov 1919 in Harrison, Boone Co, AR.  His date of birth is 20 Mar, no year given, but he listed as 70 years old at death.  The informant was Mrs A C Wammac of Harrison, AR.  His place of birth is listed as White Co, TN, and his parents as 'G Wammac' and 'Rachell Trapper'.

His Find-a-Grave memorial is here.  From various sources, we know his full name was Alexander Crockett Womack.  He appears in the 1850 FC of White Co, TN as Crockett Womack, age 3, with his apparently widowed mother Rachel, and his older siblings.  This family later moved to Arkansas.

I have always suspected Rachel was Rachel Cropper, the widow of Granville Womack.  The marriage bond of Granville Wammack and Rachael Cropper was made 17 June 1823 in Wilson Co, TN, with Mansfield Massey as the bondsman.  Granville Womack was listed in the will of his grandfather, Richard Womack of Wilson County, Tennessee, dated 16 Mar 1819, in which Richard lists Granville Womack as the son of Richard's daughter Susannah Hubbard.  Thus, Granville was an 'illegitimate' child, born out of wedlock.

Somehow, lazy researchers have mixed things up, and have Richard Jr as Richard Granville Womack, which means (by their silly logic) that Richard Sr was also named Richard Granville Womack.  There is no proof that Richard Womack who died in 1819 in Wilson Co, TN was named anything other than Richard, and the same goes for his son.  From a careful reading of Richard Sr's will, the only Granville was his grandson Granville Womack, who was the son of Richard Sr's daughter Susannah Womack, before she married Joseph Hubbard (Wilson Co, TN marriage bond dated 22 Mar 1809, with Richard Wamack as bondsman).

James Cropper's will is in Wilson Co, TN Will Book 1848-1853, p.24, Aug Term 1848, will of James Cropper:  wife Rhoda Cropper, daughter Polly Cunningham, daughter Sally Donnell, daughter Betsey (no surname given), daughter Lovey Massey, daughter Rachel Wommack, son James Cropper, son Hiram L Cropper, daughter Jane (no surname given), step-daughter Mary Holland, executor Elijah Wommack, signed 20 Nov 1843, witnesses Hardin Ragland, H A Johnson, Terrell Davis; proved Aug Term 1848 by oaths of Harden Ragland and H A Johnson.

Although I have been unable to find Granville Womack in tax lists or census records, he had a large family.  His wife Rachel was alive in 1843 for the writing of her father, James Cropper's, will.  By 1850, it appears Granville was dead, and Rachel was the head of the family in White Co, TN.

The name Cropper was often rendered Crapper.  In fact, in James Cropper's will, the cursive handwriting seems to say Cropper sometimes, and Crapper others.  The name may have been Crapper, or at least pronounced that way sometimes.  

Alexander Crockett Womack's widow, Sarah Elizabeth Daniel, was the informant on his death certificate, and said his mother was Rachel Trapper.  Trapper, oddly enough, does not seems to be a real surname, or one that was very rarely used.  More likely, Alexander's widow misread from a family Bible the name Cropper or Crapper as 'Trapper', or misheard Alexander's mother's maiden name.  Or, the person who filled out the certificate with the information from Alexander's widow misheard.

Anyhow, Alexander's parents listed as 'G Wammac' and 'Rachell Trapper' make me certain he was the son of Granville Womack and Rachel Cropper.