Sarah Womack, daughter of Alexander Womack III and Mary Neal

One of many Womack genealogy errors floating around the web is that Alexander Womack III and his first wife Mary Neal had a daughter named Angeline Womack who married James Hammonds.  In many online trees, Angeline is shown with the same death date and place as Dillie Ann Womack Williams (link to her gravestone), a known daughter of Alexander and Mary.

The James Hammond this supposed Angeline married is sometimes listed as 'James F Hammonds' or 'James Isham Hammonds'.

The reality is that there was a James T Hammond/Hammonds (grave here) who married Angeline Marler (grave here), and that James T Hammonds was the son of Isham T Hammons (grave here) and Sarah Womack, daughter of Alexander Womack III and Mary Neal.

Interestingly, the stones for James T Hammonds and his wife Angeline are on the same base, but they are not listed as husband and wife.

Isham T Hammons was on the 1850 Federal Census of Polk Co, TN, listed 2 households from the family of brother-in-law James Alexander Womack.

• Isom T Hammons 30 - M W Farmer $250 NC
• Sarah - 25 F W NC
• Moses A - 8 M W TN
• James T - 6 M W TN
• George W - 5 M W TN
• Henry - 4 M W TN
• Jonathan - 2 M W TN

By 1860, Sarah had died, and Isham had married second wife Mary:

1860 FC Polk Co, TN, District 6, Family 681

• I T Hamon - 40 M W Farmer $4000 $6000 NC
• Mary - 24 F W TN
• James - 16 F W TN Farm Labor TN [mistakenly listed as female]
• Jessy - 9 F W TN [mistakenly listed as female]
• Sarah - 6 F W TN
• Samuel - 4 M W TN
• Mariah - 2 F W TN
• Infant - 6 months F W TN
• Moses Hamon - 80 M W Farmer NC
• Martin James - 22 M W Laborer NC

Death certificates show that Jesse (grave here) was the child of Sarah Womack, and Sarah (grave here) was the child of Mary Morgan.

• TN Death Certificate - Jessie Hamonds, died 24 Jan 1923 in Polk Co, TN, age 73, born Apr 1850, born in TN, father Isam Hamonds born in TN, mother 'Miss Wamick' born in TN.
• TN Death Certificate - Mrs S J Waldrop [incorrectly indexed as 'Waldrof' on ancestry] , died Blount Co, TN on 21 Nov 1925, date of birth not given, age 65, born in TN, father Isaac Hammond born in TN, mother 'Morgan' born in TN.

So, Sarah Womack, wife of Isham T Hammonds, died soon after son Jesse was born (25 Apr 1852, according to his gravestone).  Isham remarried to Mary Morgan who had daughter Sarah, born circa 1854 (her gravestone just gives the year 1854).

James T Hammonds, born 24 Jan 1844, son of Isham Hammonds and Sarah Womack, married Angeline Marler.  She is in the 1850 FC of McMinn Co, TN with parents George and Nancy Marler.  Angeline Marler is shown as 11 in the 1850 census, and her sister Francena is 6.  Francena Marler later married Elijah Thompson Womack (grave here), Sarah Womack's younger half brother.  After Francena's death, Elijah Womack married second wife Sarah Foster.

The family of James 'Hamon' and wife Angeline and children are on the 1870 FC of McMinn Co, TN.  I cannot find them in 1880, but from birth places of children, it appears they moved to Arkansas, then on to the Indian Territory before it became Oklahoma.  Marriage records of some of their children in the 1890s and early 1900s are in Muskogee Co, OK.

Before moving from Tennessee, James Hammonds was a buyer at the estate sale of his grandfather, Alexander Womack III, in 1874, see earlier post.

The Idaho death certificate of Minnie M Hammonds Hammack (her grave), daughter of James & Angeline, lists her parents as James Hammons and Angeline Marlow, a variant of Marler.  A newspaper obituary listed her place of birth as Servilla, TN, which is a town in Polk Co, TN.  Minnie married John A Hammack, and they are listed on the 1910 FC of Osage Co, OK; her father James Hammons, age 66 living with them.

Another daughter was Effie Jo Hammonds (her grave), who married William Dallas Williams; her Social Security application lists her parents as Jim Hammons and Angeline Marlow.

In short, Alexander Womack III and Mary Neal did not have a daughter named Angeline who married James Hammonds.  Rather, they had a daughter Sarah, born circa 1825 in North Carolina, who married Isham Hammonds, and their son James T Hammonds married Angeline Marler.  Angeline's sister, Francena Marler, married Elijah Thompson Womack, who was the son of Alexander Womack III by his second wife, Freelove Thompson.

Probably, the family lore got confused along the way because of the Hammonds and Marler connections.

Sarah Womack, born circa 1825, was likely the first daughter of Alexander Womack III.  He named her after his mother, Sarah McDearmon, who his father, Alexander Womack Jr, married 27 Dec 1798 in Prince Edward Co, VA.  Alexander Womack III was not born in 1797 as is erroneously all over the web; rather he was born closer to 1800, which will be the subject of another post.