Brief Life History of Clement Lee
When Clement Lee Yancey was born on 15 May 1862, in Virginia, United States, his father, Stith Gardner Yancey, was 55 and his mother, Margaret R. Blount, was 27. He married Hinda Robins on 23 October 1889, in King William, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in West Point, King William, Virginia, United States for about 30 years and King William, Virginia, United States in 1955. He died on 27 November 1935, at the age of 73, and was buried in King William, Virginia, United States.
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- C L Yancey, "United States Census, 1900"
- Clement L Yancy, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Clement L. Yancy, "Virginia Marriages, 1785-1940"
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1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1864 · Arlington Cemetery
Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
1882 · The Chinese Exclusion Act
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Name Meaning
Altered form of an unidentified surname, possibly of the like-sounding Dutch name Janse or its cognate Jansen (final -n is silent in some dialects of Dutch), or of some similar English surname, such as Jauncey or Jancey, variants of Johnsey .
History: Charles Yancey, the progenitor of the Yanceys, is recorded in King William County, VA, in 1704. According to family tradition, the surname was brought to VA from Wales in the middle of the 17th century and is said to be an altered form of Nanney , but there is no evidence of this and, as the DNA tests proved, also no direct paternal connection between the Yancey and the Nanney family.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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