Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Texas, United States
Date of Birth: August 19, 1966
Ethnicity: English, German, Irish, some Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), remote Dutch, remote French, remote Scottish, remote Welsh
Family Info:
Lee Ann Womack is an American country music singer and songwriter. She is the daughter of Aubrey Lee Womack and Blanche Ann Gothard. She is married to Frank Liddell. She was previously married to Jason Sellers.
Lee Ann’s paternal grandfather was Algie Bertram Womack (the son of John Drury Womack and Cora Lee Williams). John was the son of Joseph B. Womack and Margaret C. “Maggie/Mattie” Sloan. Cora was the daughter of John Thomas Williams and Martha A. “Mattie” Hardin.
Lee Ann’s paternal grandmother was Clara Virginia Carnes (the daughter of George Washington Carnes and Texanna Virginia Davis). George was the son of William Redwine Carnes and Elvina Brewer. Texana was the daughter of William J. Davis and Sarah Ann Mayfield.
Lee Ann’s maternal grandfather was Ernest Searcy Gothard (the son of John Sparkman Gothard and Daisy D. McCauley). John was the son of George M. Gothard and Clementina “Tiny” Jimmerson. Daisy was the daughter of John Hardy McCauley and Eliza D. Flanagan.
Lee Ann’s maternal grandmother was Francis Hope Clay (later Rolley, the daughter of Harry Garfield Clay and Blanche Louella Smith). Harry was the son of Richard Hope Clay and Sarah Delia Biggs. Richard was born in Montreal, Quebec to Irish immigrants Richard Clay and Charlotte Hope. Blanche was the daughter of Francis Alvin “Frank” Smith and Nancy Ann Handley.
Sources:
* Lee Ann’s birth record: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VDXV-Y6R
* Genealogy of Lee Ann’s father: http://bransoncook.systemaxonline.com/gedcoms/womack/pafg13.htm#36505
* Lee Ann’s mother on the 1940 US Census: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWJC-7G3
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