Charles Pollard Yancey

Brief Life History of Charles Pollard

Charles Pollard Yancey was born on 1 June 1911, in Virginia, United States as the son of William J Yancey and Virgie Mealy. He died on 30 June 1996, at the age of 85.

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William J Yancey
1868–
Virgie Mealy
Virgie Yancey
1885–1937
Charles Pollard Yancey
1911–1996
Louise Dorothy Yancey
1914–2007

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    1913 · The Sixteenth Amendment

    The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to collect an income tax without dividing it among the states based on population.

    1917 · Camp Lee Training Facility

    Camp Lee was the sight of where Europeans first came face to face with the Powhatan Confederation. Than during the Civil War  the Union forces used it as a surprise attack and blocked Lee’s army from the supply base. When World War II started Fort Lee became Camp Lee and was used as a training facility.

    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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