Ella Bird Yancey

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Batch #: 962477, Source Call #:

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From http://bioguide.congress.gov/
YANCEY, William Lowndes, (uncle of Joseph Haynsworth Earle), a
Representative from Alabama; born at the Falls of the Ogeechee, Warren
County, Ga., August 10, 1814; attended preparatory school and Williams
College, Williamstown, Mass.; studied law in Sparta, Ga., was admitted to
the bar in 1834 and commenced practice in Greenville, S.C.; moved to
Cahawba, Ala., in 1836; temporarily abandoned the practice of law and
became a cotton planter; editor of the Cahawba Democrat and the Cahawba
Gazette; moved to Wetumpka, Ala., in 1839 and resumed the practice of
law; member of the State house of representatives in 1841; served in the
State senate in 1843; elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth Congress
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dixon H. Lewis;
reelected to the Twenty-ninth Congress and served from December 2, 1844,
to September 1, 1846, when he resigned; moved to Montgomery, Ala., in
1846; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1848, 1856, and
1860; member of the State constitutional convention which convened in
Montgomery January 7, 1861; appointed chairman of the commission sent to
Europe in 1861 to present the Confederate cause to the Governments of
England and France; elected to the first Confederate States Senate
February 21, 1862; died at his plantation home, near Montgomery, Ala.,
July 26, 1863; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.

Bibliography

DAB; Draughon, Ralph Brown, Jr. "William Lowndes Yancey: From Unionist to
Secessionist 1814-1852." Ph.D. dissertation, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, 1968; Mitchell, Rexford S. "William Lowndes Yancey:
Orator of Southern Constitutional Rights." Ph.D. dissertation, University
of Wisconsin, 1937.

Birth:
"The Aviary"

Buried:
Oakwood Cemetery

William married Sarah Caroline Earle on 13 Aug 1835 in Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, USA. Sarah was born in 1816; died in 1883 in Athens, Clarke County, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Birth:
Abbeville Dist., SC

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Died:
yellow fever

Benjamin married Caroline Bird on 8 Dec 1808 in Warren County, GA. Caroline was born on 8 Apr 1790 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA; died on 8 Dec 1859 in Montgomery, Montgomery County, AL. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James was a corp'l in Gen. Greenes Army, SC. in 1770s. Took bounty land
warrant.

James married Elizabeth (Abigail) Cudworth in 1777 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA. Elizabeth was born on 13 Jan 1756; died in 1791 in Laurens County, SC. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]