Robert Davis Yancey
(1855-1931)
Class of 1875 - VMI - Virginia Military Institute
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Photo above from: Men of mark in Virginia: ideals of American life;
Photographs thanks to Elizabeth Bunting!
Marriage Photo of Rosa & Robert Davis Yancey (she was 16 and he was 37 )
Robert & Rosa in their older years.
"Aunt" Nancy with one of the children
Anecdotal information about Uncle Jake
& Aunt Nancy
(the exact identity of Jake & Nancy - outside of the family
story - is unclear
There is a Jacob & Nancy Ross on the 1880 census of Bedford
County, Virginia.
Whether this is the same Jake & Nancy is uncertain.
Whether they descend from slaves once held by the Yancey Family is also
uncertain.
Excerpts from the movie "TheVanishing Virginian"
(in the movie certain names
were changed - such as the name of Jake to Joshua).
A photo of the original Rothsay
- where Joel Yancey and son William Tudor Yanxcey lived.
The house burned down in 1912 - and was replaced with another structure
also called "Rothsay"
Robert Davis Yancey Jr.
Rebecca Yancey Williams
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Caroline Anthony Yancey
William Joel Tudor Yancey
with son Joel Alexander Yancey
and grandson William F. Yancey
