 1814 - 1863 (48 years)
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| Name |
William Lowndes Yancey |
| Birth |
10 Aug 1814 |
Falls of the Ogeechee, Warren County, Georgia, USA  |
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| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
26 Jul 1863 |
Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, USA |
| Burial |
Montgomery, Montgomery, Alabama, USA |
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| Person ID |
I4491 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Benjamin Cudworth Yancey, b. 1783, Charleston, Charleston County, SC d. 3 Oct 1817, Edgefield County, SC (Age 34 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
Caroline Bird, b. 8 Apr 1790, Alexandria, Virginia, USA d. 8 Dec 1859, Montgomery, Montgomery County, AL (Age 69 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Marriage |
8 Dec 1808 |
Warren County, GA |
| Family ID |
F2314 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Sarah Caroline Earle, b. 1816 d. 1883, Athens, Clarke County, GA (Age 67 years) |
| Marriage |
13 Aug 1835 |
Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, USA |
| Children |
| | 1. Benjamin Cunningham Yancey, b. 30 Jul 1836, Greenville, Greenville County, SC [natural] |
| | 2. Mary Elizabeth Yancey, b. 19 Jun 1839, Cahawba, Dallas, SC [natural] |
| | 3. Ella Bird Yancey, b. 10 Jan 1843, Montgomery, Montgomery, AL [natural] |
| | 4. William Earle Yancey, b. 4 Nov 1843, Wetumpka, Elmore, AL [natural] |
| | 5. Ellen Yancey, b. Abt 1845, Trigg, KY [natural] |
| | 6. Dalton Huger Yancey, b. 13 Feb 1845, Greenville, Greenville County, SC [natural] |
| | 7. Goodloe Harper Yancey, b. 9 Jul 1848, Montgomery, Montgomery, AL [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F1727 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| 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.
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