Eliza A. Womack

Brief Life History of Eliza A.

When Eliza A. Womack was born on 14 March 1857, in Warren, Tennessee, United States, her father, Burgess Harrelson Womack Jr, was 24 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Potter, was 22. She married John Ephraim Cantrell on 30 November 1876, in Warren, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 6 daughters. She lived in Civil District 15, Warren, Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died on 3 September 1905, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 48, and was buried in Campaign, Warren, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Ephraim Cantrell
1853–1937
Eliza A. Womack
1857–1905
Marriage: 30 November 1876
Sally V. Cantrell
1877–1886
Minnie Lee Cantrell
1880–1953
Frances Elizabeth Cantrell
1882–1944
Claude Payton Cantrell
1884–1955
James Hershel Cantrell
1886–1970
Ocie Mae Cantrell
1888–1962
Harold Franklin Cantrell
1890–1950
Callie Victoria Cantrell
1894–1978
Shellia Affleta Cantrell
1897–1945
Roy Leo Cantrell
1899–1960

Sources (11)

  • Louisa A Womack in household of Harrel Womack, "United States Census, 1870"
  • Eliza A Comack (Unknown), "Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002"
  • Eliza Womack Cantrell, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1862 · Battle of Shiloh

The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment

Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.

Name Meaning

English (Yorkshire and Norfolk): possibly a nickname from a diminutive of Middle English wombe ‘belly, stomach’ (Old English wamb, womb).

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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