Benjamin
Cudworth
Yancey
Jr.
Born [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Son of Benjamin Cudworth Yancey Sr
and Caroline (Bird) Beman
Husband of
Laura M. (Hines) Yancey
— married
20 Jul 1841 (to 9 Jan 1844) in Hancock, Georgia, USA
Husband of
Sarah (Hamilton) Yancey
— married
4 Nov 1846 in Clarke,Georgia, USA
Descendants 
Father of
Thomas Hamilton Yancey
Died
at age 74
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Education: 1836 - University of Georgia 1837 - Yale Law School
According to the University of North Carolina, Yancey was a "planter, lawyer, antebellum Alabama newspaper editor, Democratic state legislator in South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia; U.S. minister to Argentina; Confederate officer in Virginia, 1861, and Georgia militia officer in the Atlanta Campaign, 1864; publisher of postwar agricultural journals and promoter of agricultural societies, business, and industry in Georgia; and brother of William Lowndes Yancey.
Many of Yancey's papers are on file at the UNC Library.
Family
He married Laura Hines of Hancock County, Ga., in 1842, and they had one daughter, Caroline. Three years after Laura died in 1844, he married Sarah Hamilton, daughter of Thomas N. Hamilton of Athens, Ga., with whom he had Hamilton and Mary Louisa.[1]
Military
He was a member of Cobb's Legion, CSA.
Death
inscription: True Man, True Hero True Philanthropist Thy Golden Motto "Duty Without Fear"
Buried: Myrtle Hill Cemetery, Rome, Floyd County, Georgia, USA
Sources
- ↑ University Libraries Wilson Special Collections Library at the Louis Round Wilson Library, Collection Number: 02594 Collection Title: Benjamin C. Yancey Papers, 1800-1931 https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/02594/
- "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FWH8-MY5 : 24 December 2014), Benjamin C. Yancey and Laura M. Hines, 20 Jul 1841; citing , Hancock, Georgia; FHL microfilm 222,074.
- "Georgia Marriages, 1808-1967," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW62-BXZ : 24 December 2014), Benjamin C. Yancey and Sarah P. Hamilton, 04 Nov 1846; citing Clarke,Georgia; FHL microfilm 0214493 V. A-D.
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