John Thomas WOMBLE

                   William R. Womble could be Willis R. Womble.  The 1910 Census says Willis, the
1920 Census says William.  He was married to Katis May Leowe
Randy Caine says that William R. Womble was born 15 July 1863 in Oakdale, Stanislau, CA not Feb 1864 as originally thought.  One time resident of Hodson.

Willis was 6 years old on the 1870 Census.
He was 16 years old on the 1880 Census.
He was 46 years old on 1910 Census and 56 years old on the 1920 Census.

Funeral Record B.C. Wallace
Willis Randolph Womble - male - white - husband of Katie May Womble - born 12 February 1864 - died at age 61 yrs 7 mo 15 days - occupation farmer - father John Womble born Virginia, mother Mary Smith born Canada - date of death 27 September 1925 or organic heart disease - Dr. Samuel R. Arthur - buried 29 Sept 1925 in ParkView Cemetery - B.C. Wallace Undertaker.  Pallbearers:  Sherman Womble, Clarence Womble, Earl Womble, Elmer Womble, Fred Harrington, Lee ?

Obituary:
At Acampo, September 27, 1925, Willis Randolph Womble, beloved husband of Kate May Womble, loving father of Mrs. Earl Blazer of Acampo, Fred Womble of Vallejo and Forrest Womble of San Andreas; brother of Mrs. Lillie Crane of Lodi, Mrs. George Crosby of Westpoint and Martha Womble of Copperopolis; a native of California, aged 61 yrs 7 mo 15 days.  The funeral will take place Wednesdays, Sept 30, 1925 at 2:30 PM from the chapel of B.C. Wallace.  Channel and Stanislaus Street.  Interment in Park View Cemetery.  Friends and acquaintances are invited.

Sources for family information:
       1890 Register of California Voters - Womble, Randolph Willis - age 25 yrs - born California - Resident of Copperopolis, Calaveras - Reg 4 Oct                  1890 Pg. 38
       1900 Census - Calaveras Co., (Angel)
       1910 Census - Calaveras Co., Copperopolis
       1920 Census - Calaveras Co., Copperopolis
       Deaths
                  

                      Lot 15 Block 14

Martinas was 2 yrs old on the 1870 Census.
He was 12 years old on the 1880 Census.
He was 40 years old on the 1920 Census.
Death Certificate #43-54069 75 yrs.
One time resident of Railroad Flat, California

Death Certificate, County of Calaveras, San Andreas, CA
Martin Womble, died Calaveras, San Andreas, Calaveras County Hospital, at hospital 3 months, male, white, single, born 18 August 1868, born Stanislaus County, California, miner, father John Womble born Virginia, mother Mary Gardner born Canada, informant T.C. Grubb San Andreas, CA, removed 8/19/1943 to Lodi, embalmer John B. Gardella, Wells Funeral Home, Lodi California, residence of deceased California, Calaveras, Copperopolis
Died 18 August 1943 of Carcinoma of colon and sigmoid, Coroner George P. Cooper M.D. of Angels Camp

Death Notice
Calaveras Prospect & Citizen 18 Sept 1943
Martin Womble died August 18, 1943, 8:45 AM, born in California 18 May 1868, age 75 years three months; buried in Lodi, California

Headstone found in Stockton Rural Cemetery, Stockton, San Joaquin, California. Lot 15 Block 14

1890 Register of California Voters - Martin Womble - age 22 yrs - born California - Resident of Copperopolis, Calaveras - Reg 4 Oct 1890 Pg. 38

CA Death Index - Womble, Martin - born 18 August 1868 - Gardner - Womble - male - California - Calaveras - 18 Axugust 1943 - 75 yrs.
                  

                   Block 8 Grave 11

Claybourn was 41 years old when he died in 1912.  He was married to Sadie C.
Webb.  They lived at 1571 W. Walnut Street in Stockton, CA when Earl Tennyson Womble was born.
On the 1880 census he was 9 years old.
He was 39 years old on the 1910 Census.
One time owner of the Pine Log Mine in Hodson, California.  Died of Tuberculosis believed to be caused from swallowing a screw which became rusty and infected his lungs.

Source of family information:
San Joaquin Co., CA Marriages 6:306
1880 Census - Stanislaus Co, CA
1900 Census - Calaveras County (Angel)
Burials- Rural Cemetery - Stockton, CA
San Joaquin Co., CA Obituaries
1910 Census - Calaveras Co., CA
1920 Census - Stockton, San Joaquin, CA
Obituary of Earl T.
Death Certificate #27779
Obituary of C.O. Womble in possession of D. Wilberg

1880 Stanislaus Census Index
Womble, Claybourn - Camp Washington - ED95 Pg. 2 Line 26
Womble, Elvin D. -Camp Washington - ED95 Pg. 2 Line 28
Womble, John F. -Camp Washington - ED95 Pg. 2 Line 22
Womble, Lily A. - Camp Washington - ED95 Pg. 2 Line 27
Womble, Martin - Camp Washington - ED95 Pg. 2 Line 25
Womble, Mary - Camp Washington - ED95 Pg. 2 Line 23
Womble, Mary E. - Camp Washington - ED95 Pg. 2 Line 29
Womble, Willis R. - Camp Washington - ED95 Pg. 2 Line 24

Film 1852040 - San Joaquin Death Records - Womble, Clayburn Orrin died Stockton 20 Sept 1912 #12000355
1902 - Labor Boss, Deputy Sheriff, Constable
1906 partners with John March in the Purdy Hotel, Womble and March Saloon (Barber Shop), Valley Springs, corner of Daphne and Laurel Streets.

Calaveras Prospector, Saturday, August 11, 1906 - Justice of the Peace March and Constable Womble of Jenny Lind township who have recently moved to Valley Spring, have secured the Purdy hotel in that town and will reopen the same and conduct it on up-to-date methods.  They were both in San Andreas Monday to secure the necessary license from the Board of Supervisors for the conduct of a bar in connection wit the hotel.  Both gentlemen are are well known and popular and should find favor with the traveling public as well as the local business.

Buried Stockton Rural Cemetery, Stockton - Block 8 Grave 11

«b»Obituary for Clayburn O. Womble - Stockton Evening Record 21 September 1912
«/b»Womble - In Stockton, September 20, 1912, Clayburn O. Womble, husband of Sarah C. Womble, father of Elmer C., Clarence H, Earl, Sherman, Evangeline and Norma Womble of this son, son of J.T. Womble of Railroad Flat, brother of Willis Womble of Hodson, Martin Womble of Railroad Flat, Mrs. C.T. Crane of Stockton, and Mrs. G Crosby of West Point, a native of California, aged 41 years.  The funeral will take place, Monday, September 23d, at 3 PM from the chapel of B.C. Wallace, Interment in Rural Cemetery.--------and acquaintances are invited to attend.
«b»
San Francisco Chronicle - 1 Dec 1911 Pg. 19
«/b»Miner Coughs Up Screw Swallowed in Childhood - Stockton, November 30
After hemorrhages in the course of two years and after having been declared a consumptive with little chance of recovery, Claib Womble, a Calaveras miner, coughed up a rusty screw a few days ago which had been lodged in his lungs for years, he declaring that he must have swallowed the screw in early childhood.  Womble is now  improving rapidly and physicians tell him that the screw caused the symptoms which declared him a consumptive.

«b»San Francisco Chronicle - 1 Dec 1911 -  Image 1 -
Rusty Screw in Lung Mistaken for White Plague by Doctors
«/b»Stockton, Nov. 30 - After suffering more than two years in which time he had 82 hemorrhages, spending thousands of dollars with lung specialists and being told that he was a victim of tuberculosis, Claib Womble, a Calaveras county mining man, coughed up a screw, which he believes he swallowed in childhood, and is today well on the road to recovery.  Womble, who is the owner of a large mine at Hodson, is at the home of his sister, 530 North American Street, and he said today:«b»
«/b»"While in the mines in Calaveras, I was taken with a heavy cold, which settled on my lungs.  I became bedfast and spent thousands of dollars with doctors, who told me that the germ of tuberculosis had settled in my lungs.   The doctors could do nothing for me.  I lost weight rapidly and fell from 192 to 138 pounds.  One day I awoke with a kink in my neck and while I was rubbing it I was seized with a fit of coughing.  I could feel something moving in my lung, and it seemed as if it was being torn apart.  I called my sister; she investigated and found I had coughed up this screw, coated with rust."
Womble drew forth a purse and exhibited a screw five-eighths of an inch long and heavily rusted.
                  

                   Block 14 Grave 15

Lily's name was sometimes spelled Lillie or Lillian.  She married Clifford T. Crane 13
February 1894.
She was 7 yrs old on the 1880 Census.

San Joaquin County Death Certificate 3900-2411
Lillie Ann Crane - died 21 Dec 1963 at 12:40 AM - female - white - born California 22 May 1873 - age 90 yrs - father John Womble born Alabama - mother Mary Smith born Utah - housewife - widowed - died Lodi Nursing Home 314 Pine Street, Lodi, San Joaquin, California - buried 23 Dec 1963 in Rural Cmetery - Wells Funeral Home - died of hypostatic Pneumonia & Cerebral Hemorrhage - informant Inez Bunce

buried Stockton Rural Cemetery - Crane, Lillian - Block 14 Grave 15

CA Death Index - Crane, Lillie A. - born 22 May 1873 - Smith - female - California - San Joaquin - Residence: Manteca - 12/21/1963 - 90 yrs

No SSN
                  

                   Elvia's name was sometimes spelled Elvie.
She married George H. Crosby 24 July 1895 in Angels, Calaveras, CA
Birthdate 1875/76

Elvia was 4 on the 1880 Census.

Newspaper article on buggy accident: 1 August 1896, Saturday - California Prospect Newspaper
Mrs. George Crosby (see Womble) of Copperopolis, was thrown from a cart last Monday near that place and badly injured, while her three-months-old child she carried was killed.  Mr. Crosby in company with his wife and child started in a road cart for the Womble residence at Pine Log.  As they reached the gate to the fence inclosing the premises, Mr. Crosby got out to open the same, leaving his wife in the vehicle to drive through.  She did so and stopped on the other side while her husband closed the gate.  As the sun shone in the babe's face, the mother concluded to open her parasol, but just as she did so the noise of the closing gate caused the horse to turn its head and look back.  The sight of the opening parasol frightened the animal and before Mr. Crosby could reach the cart, the animal started off on a run.  With the child in her arms, Mrs. Crosby was unable to stop the horse, and as they crossed a ravine the cart was upset and the occupants thrown to the ground, where they - or at least the mother remained in an unconscious condition.  As the horse approached the house an attempt was made to catch the animal, when it turned in its tracks and ran back the way it had come.  Reaching the prostrate forms one of the wheels passed over the child's head crushing its skull.  Mrs. Crosby was carried to the home of her parents, medical aid summoned, and eery attention given her.  Although seriously injured there is hope for her recovery.

Film 1686048
CA Death Index 1930-39 - Crosby, Elva L. - Spouse: GH - 56 yrs died Calaveras 29 September 1932 Reg #51513


Sources of information
Headstone at Westpoint Cemetery, Westpoint, Calaveras, California visited by D. Wilberg 7/00
                  

                   Mary's name was sometimes spelled Mamie Ellen Wamble.
She married Harry Main 28 Jun 1899 in Hodson, Calaveras Co., CA
Mary Ellen's work was done by Ann J. S. Atkin (Not sealed to parents)
Mary was 3/4 yrs old (10 months) on the 1880 Census living at Camp Washington, Stanislaus, CA FHL 1254084 with her father and mother John F. Wamble and Mary Smith Womble