James Yancey

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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]

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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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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]

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 Laura Hines on 20 Jul 1841 in Sparta, Hancock County, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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Family/Spouse: Hugh H. Harris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Hamilton married Florence Julia Patterson on 29 Apr 1874 in Georgia. Florence was born on 18 Jul 1856 in Georgia; died on 18 Sep 1929 in Floyd County, GA; was buried in Myrtle Hill Cem., Rome, Floyd County, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Ferdinand Bowdre Phinizy on 31 Jan 1870. Ferdinand was born on 8 Jan 1850 in Athens, Clarke County, GA; died on 15 Jan 1877 in Augusta, Columbia County, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Charles H. Phinizy on 28 Jul 1885 in Augusta, Richmond County, GA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]