Katie Silvey Speer - incorrect birth year on grave

Katie Silvey first appears in federal censuses in the 1870 FC of Atlanta Ward 5, Fulton Co, GA, Dwelling #62.  She is 4 years old, with parents John (age 47) & Adeline (age 30) Silvey, indexed by ancestry as Silvasy.

In the 1860 FC of Atlanta Ward 5, Fulton Co, GA, Dwelling #1172, John (37) and Adaline (25) Silvey had only one child, daughter Mary Silvey, age 5, who died as a child in 1865:  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84547837/mary-silvey

So, Katie Silvey was not alive in 1860, and was only listed as 4 years old in 1870.  In the 1880 FC of Atlanta, Fulton Co, GA, House #102, the Silvey family consists of John 50, Adeline 34 and Katie E 13.  Katie married William Speer, and she is listed in the 1900 FC of Atlanta Ward 5 as 32 years old, born Aug 1867.  She and her husband were living with her widowed mother Adeline.

In 1910 FC, Katie Silvey Speer was listed as 39; in 1920 FC she was 44; in 1930 FC she was 52; and in 1940 FC she was 60.  The 1950 and later censuses have not yet been released by the National Archives.

All of this goes to show that her birthdate on her grave stone of 22 June 1857 (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/84547943/kate-speer) cannot possibly be correct, and she was at least 9 years younger than shown.

In other words, she was born well after both of her paternal grandparents, Drewry and Mary Ann Silvey, had both died.  She did not personally know her grandparents.

Katie Silvey Speer believed her paternal grandmother's maiden name was WOMACK. She paid for a memorial headstone for her grandparents before 16 Mar 1934, when the cemetery was surveyed.  The memorial stone was placed near the original gravestone.  The newer memorial says "In memory of Drewry Silvey 1770-1860, Mary Womack Silvey 1793-1864'.  https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/68886268/mary-ann-silvey  (please ignore the UNDOCUMENTED and highly unlikely claim on Find-a-Grave about Mary being the daughter of Jesse and Mary Ann Abney Womack).

When Katie's father, John D Silvey, a wealthy man, died in 1897, the Atlanta Constitution newspaper ran an obituary listing his parents as Drewery Silvey and Miss Mary WARNEC.  Newspaper clipping.

The marriage record of Drewry and Mary exists in records of Oglethorpe Co, GA, and is sometime incorrectly stated to have occurred in 1805.  The marriage (or at least the license for the marriage) was dated 16 Feb 1807.  The typescript transcription has "Drewry Silon and Margaret Warnock 787" (microfilm entitled 'Oglethorpe County, State of Georgia, Marriages 'White' Transcribed 1794-1812', image 15 of 75).

The typescript comes from a ledger book "Marriage Licenses Granted".  Image 88 of 198, microfilm entitled 'Oglethorpe County, State of Georgia, Marriages 'White', Vol 1, 1794-1832'.  Here, in cursive handwriting, is "1807 Febry 16, Drewry Silon [?, possibly 'Silver'] to Margan [possibly 'Maryan'] Warnock [possibly 'Wamock'] 720".

Womack and Warnock are often confused in old handwriting, but are distinct surnames.  Womack is English and Warnock is Scottish, and they have distinct Y-DNA in tested patrilineal lines.

The other Womack or Warnock marriages in Oglethorpe County, Georgia were:

• Thomas Warnock to Charity Peters, 19 Jan 1807
• John Miles to Rebecca Warnock, 8 Oct 1808
• Liza Wamack [Womack] to Thos Bacon, 11 Jan 1810
• John Warnock to Martha Obriant [Briant or Bryant], 30 May 1817

Other than Eliza Womack to Thomas Bacon, I believe the rest were Warnock marriages.  Eliza Womack who married Thomas Bacon was the daughter of Josiah Womack and Keziah Wilkinson of Nottoway Co, VA; she moved to Georgia with her brother Bird Womack and her widowed mother, and there are deed records in Virginia where Thomas and Eliza Bacon sold the land she inherited from her father, Josiah Womack (Lunenburg Co, VA Deed Book 32:453A).

This is the first of a series of posts to show that Drewry Silvey married Mary Ann WARNOCK.  Stay tuned for DOCUMENTATION of her parents.