Brief Life History of Horace Jewell
When Horace Jewell Womack was born on 12 June 1898, in Martha, Jackson, Oklahoma, United States, his father, George Pierce Womack, was 34 and his mother, Martha Jane Neil, was 30. He married Vernon Minnie Curtis on 16 December 1917, in Martha, Jackson, Oklahoma, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Eldorado, Jackson, Oklahoma, United States in 1920 and Lynn Lane Township, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States in 1940. In 1940, at the age of 41, his occupation is listed as manager-farm in Lynn Lane, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. He died in April 1978, in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States.
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- Horace J Womack, "United States Census, 1940"
- Horace J Womack, "Oklahoma, County Marriages, 1890-1995"
- Horace Jewell Womack, "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918"
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1900 · Gold for Cash!
This Act set a price at which gold could be traded for paper money.
1901 · Spindletop Oilfield Discovered
Spindletop, located south of Beaumont, becomes the first major oil well to be discovered in Texas. Other fields were discovered in shortly after, which ultimately led to the highly impactful "oil boom".
1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment
The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.
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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