Bowdre Phinizy

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• Occupation: 1920, Augusta, Columbia County, GA; owner

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Bowdre Phinizy was born cal 1901.

Notes:

Notable Southern Families, Volumes I & II
Ferdinand Bowdre Phinizy married Miss Mary Lou Yancey, of Athens, Georgia. They had children: Bowdre and Harriet. After the death of Ferdinand Bowdre Phinizy she married her late husband's cousin, Charles Phinizy, and by this marriage had one daughter.

Death and Obituary Notices from The Southern Christian Advocate, 1867-1878
Issue of February 6, 1877
page 214
Death & Obituary Notices, Southern Christian Advocate, 1867-1878
Mr. Ferdinand Bowdre Phinizy, died in Augusta, Ga., January 15, 1877. He was born in Augusta, January 8, 1850, the eldest child of Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy, now of Clark county, Ga., His mother, the daughter of Mr. Hayes Bowdre deceased, was taken away from the family consisting of husband and eight little children, when the subject of this memoir was only 14 years old. On 31st of January 1871, he married Miss Mamie Lou, daughter of Col. B. C. Yancey of Athens, Ga. Clement A. Evans

Ferdinand married Mary Louise Yancey on 31 Jan 1870. Mary (daughter of Jr. Benjamin Cudworth Yancey and Sarah Paris Hamilton) was born on 27 Mar 1851 in Alabama, USA; died on 16 Nov 1926 in Augusta, Richmond County, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography by Thomas Owens, 1921. Page 1819

YANCEY, BENJAMIN CUDWORTH, lawyer, U. S. minister to the Argentine republic, was born April 27, 1817, at Charleston, S. C., and died October 24, 1891, at Rome, Ga.; son of Benjamin Cudworth and Caroline (Bird) Yancey, of Charleston, S. C., the former who served as midshipman on board the Constellation, under Commodore Truxton, and was present and bore a part in the engagement in 1789, between her and the French frigates, L'Insurgente and La Vengeance, in which the former was captured and the latter escaped in the night after having struck her colors, who resigned after peace with France, studied law in Baltimore, Md., and in Laurens District, S. C., practiced law in Abbeville, was a member of the South Carolina legislature in 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and was aide to Gov. Alston with the rank of colonel; grandson of James Yancey, who fought for independence with the Virginia forces, going to South Carolina with Gen. Greene, and after the Revolution married Miss Cudworth of Charleston, a descendant of the Massachusetts family of Cudworths, and of William and Catherine (Dalton) Bird; great-grandson of Lewis Davis Yancey, who settled a landed estate in Culpeper County, Va., about the middle of the seventeenth century, and who was a son of one of the pioneers, four brothers, Charles, William, Joel and Robert Yancey, who came from Wales to Virginia in 1642. He was a relative of "Charles of Buckingham;" one of the Virginia Yanceys, who owned a large landed estate and was for thirty years in public life; of Maj.Gen. Robert Em-mett Rhodes of the C. S. Army; and of Bartlett Yancey, a North Carolina congressman and a man of public afairs. Mr. Yancey attended Mt. Zion Academy, Han-cock County, Ga., and the Academy schools at Troy, N. Y. He was graduated with honor from the University of Georgia; A. B., 1836, and from the Yale law school, B. L., 1837. Moving to Alabama, he was appointed master in chancery, 1838, by Chancellor Crinahaw, for the counties of Dallas, Perry, Greene, Marengo, Sumter, Wilcox and Lowndes. In 1840, with his brother, William Lowndes Yancey (q. v.), he was co-editor of the Wetumpka "Gazette." Forced by illness to leave Alabama, he settled at Hamburg, S. C., practiced law from 1841 to 1861, and was for several terms a member of the legislature of that state. In 1861, declin-ing the nomination. to congress, he moved to his plantation on te Coosa River, Cherokee County, and in 1866, was elected to the State senate, over which body he was shortly after-ward chosen to preside. He became minister resident to the Argentine Confederation by appointment of President Buchanan, 1868, and because of a proclamation issued by the president of the Argentine Confederation for the decree of death against all captains of foreign vessels, who should take their ships into the port of Buenos Ayres, and then land at any part of the general government, Mr. Yancey, as U. S. minister, filed a vigorous protest and called upon the naval force of the United States to resist the decree. Other powers concurred in his protest, and the decree was not enforced. Subsequently, Mr. Yancey was selected by the contending states as arbiter of their differences, and shortly after he had left the country, President Urquiza's message to congress contained this compliment, "All Argentine owe the young American minister a debt of grati-tude which they cannot repay." Returning to the United States, December, 1859, Mr. Yancey declined a tender from the president, through Secretary Cass, of the appointment as minister resident to the court of St. James. . He entered the C. S. Army in 1861, as captain of the Fulton Dragoons, and was shortly afterward appointed major of Cobbs Legion. He participated in the Virginia campaign, but was subsequently transferred, as colonel, to Georgia in command of state troops. He seed as trustee of the University of Georgia, 1860-1886; was president of the Georgia State Agricultural :Society, 1867-1871; represented Clark County in the Georgia legislature for one term and declined reelection; and moved to his country home in Floyd County, Ga., where he spent the last few years of his life in superintending his planting interests. Married: (1) at Sparta, Ga., to Laura Hines, who died soon afterward; (2) in November, 1847, at Athens, Ga., to Sarah Paris Hamilton, daughter of Col.. Thomas Napier Hamilton, and granddaughter, of Capt. James Hamilton of the Virginia colonial army. Children, by first marriage: 1. Caro, m. Dr. Hugh H. Harris, son 'of Sampson W. Harris, congressman from Alabama, children, Sallie, Yancey, Hugh, Pauline, and Mary Belle; by second marriage: 2. Hamilton (q. v.); 3. Mary Lou, m. Mr. Phinizy, children, Bowdre, Hallie; and Mary Lou. Last residence: Floyd, County, Ga.

Benjamin married Sarah Paris Hamilton on 4 Nov 1846 in Clarke County, GA. Sarah was born on 16 Dec 1820; died on 2 Oct 1892 in Floyd County, GA; was buried on 4 Oct 1892 in Myrtle Hill Cem., Rome, Floyd County, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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]