Typed by: Kay Ward


WORNAT, WILLIAM

Surnames: WORNAT, WILL, ADDICKS, BROWN, BURGESS, KUROPATA, PITRUCHA

William Wornat, b November 10, 1849 in Germany, d February 17, 1930 at Beasley, Texas-married ca 1875 in Germany to Otilla Will, b ca 1850 in Germany, d February 3, 1930 in Beasley, Texas. William and Otilla had six children before they decided to emigrate to America. In 1889, William and his thirteen-year-old daughter sailed to New York on a freighter from Bremerhaven, Germany, then sailed to Galveston. The trip cost $75.00. They moved to Hallettsville, Texas, where William worked to save money for the passage of his wife and other children, who came to Texas in 1890. William and his daughter moved around Texas, working at various jobs, and the rest of the family joined them in Texas in 1890. The only one of the children of William and Otilla Wornat who has been identified was his eldest daughter:

Emma Anna Wornat, b February 15, 1876 in Germany-married in Texas at the age of fifteen years, in 1891, to Henry Addicks. They had three children before they were divorced, and Emma returned to live with her parents. She reverted to her maiden name, and her children also used the surname of "Wornat" instead of "Addicks." Their descendants have continued to use the "Wornat" name. Only one of Emma's children was identified by name:

Herman Hugo Wornat, b April 5, 1893 in Hallettsville, Texas-was married July 31, 1915 in Golinda, Falls County, Texas to Birtie Mae Brown, b in Texas-one of ten children of Charles Edward and Nora (Burgess) Brown. Charles was a native of England.
Herman and Birtie lived and farmed all over Falls County. They had seven of nine children who survived infancy, and two of these were Richard Wornat (called "Dick"), who was a farmer and rancher on the Rock Dam Road west of Marlin; and the youngest, Roy Leslie Wornat, b July 2, 1924 near Rocky Hill (also west of Marlin). Roy attended school at Blue Ridge and Reagan, where he graduated in 1942 from Reagan High School. He was offered a football scholarship, but refused and joined the U.S. Navy, in which he served during World War II.
On April 16, 1948 in Waco, McLennan County, Texas, Roy Leslie Wornat was married to Margaret Ann Kuropata-a daughter of Cyril and Anna (Pitrucha) Kuropata, natives of Czechoslovakia. The family lived in Eddy, Texas when Margaret was in school. Roy has been a car salesman and part-time rancher, living in Marlin. He and Margaret had three children:

Brenda Joyce Wornat, b December 8, 1949, is a graduate of Sam Houston University.

Elizabeth Elaine Wornat, b December 2, 1952.

Roy Lynn Wornat, b November 29, 1955.
Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these bio of these Falls County Families to this Web page
"Families of Falls County", Compiled and Edited by the Falls County Historical Commission,
page 503-504, column 2 and column 1
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