William Lowndes Yancey

Notes:

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]

1. Benjamin Cunningham Yancey was born on 30 Jul 1836 in Greenville, Greenville County, SC.
2. Mary Elizabeth Yancey was born on 19 Jun 1839 in Cahawba, Dallas, SC.
3. Ella Bird Yancey was born on 10 Jan 1843 in Montgomery, Montgomery, AL.
4. William Earle Yancey was born on 4 Nov 1843 in Wetumpka, Elmore, AL.
5. Ellen Yancey was born about 1845 in Trigg, KY.
6. Dalton Huger Yancey was born on 13 Feb 1845 in Greenville, Greenville County, SC.
7. Goodloe Harper Yancey was born on 9 Jul 1848 in Montgomery, Montgomery, AL.

Notes:

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]

Notes:

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]

Notes:

Lewis was a Captain in the Virginia Militia, 1767. In 1781 supplied revolutionary army with "Stalled beef".

Lewis married Mildred Winifred Kavanaugh in 1731 in Virginia, USA. Mildred (daughter of Philemon Kavanaugh) was born about 1710 in Orange, Orange, Virginia, USA; died in 1798 in Culpeper County, Virginia, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]