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The funeral of Elder John K. Womack, who died on April 4, at the age of seventy-eight years, was held at the family burial grounds near Eagleville, Rutherford County, Tenn., on the following day, which was the forty-ninth anniversary of his wedding. His wife survives him with four daughters and a son.

Elder Womack was for thirty-four years a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and for twenty-five years served the University Street Baptist Church in Nashville, Tenn., as its pastor. For some years he had been honorary pastor of that Church, ill health preventing his active service.

Comrade Womack joined the Confederate army at the age of seventeen, and served in Baxter Smith's 4th Tennessee Cavalry. He was captured and sent to Camp Morton, Ind., where he was held prisoner for eighteen months. He was a member of Troop A, Forrest's Cavalry Veterans, of Nashville, in whose activities he took great interest, always esteeming it an honor to wear the uniform of gray. His devotion to the Confederate cause was second only to his Church.