This post is unlike most of my others. Rather than focusing upon a Baggett ancestor, I am publishing this study on a member of my father’s maternal line. His mother was Fannie Jo Hollingshead, daughter of Thomas Jefferson Hollingshead, son of Ezekiel Hollingshead. Ezekiel (my gg-gf) was married to Jane. The purpose of this study is to correctly identify her parentage and family line for further research.
Note: This is all original research and a new discovery. To the best of my knowledge the parents and lineage of Mary Jane Hammock (Jane Hammac) were previously unknown.
Problem
The earliest document naming the wife of Ezekiel Hollingshead is their marriage license from Autauga County, Alabama. On that document, she is listed as, “Jane Hammac.” This spelling has led to much confusion regarding her lineage. Indeed, the name has seen many manifestations of spelling, including Hammock, Hammack, and Hammick. Unfortunately, she has been wrongly identified on many family trees and web sites as, “Elizabeth Jane Hammac.” The origin of the first name, Elizabeth, is unknown. I will demonstrate, with sufficient and convincing evidence, that she was actually, “Mary Jane Hammock,” the daughter of Jacob Hammock and Hannah Jones Hammock of Georgia and Alabama. The following pieces of documentary evidence build a structure of support for this conclusion.
Baggett Ancestry Research 