WILLIAM LOWNDES YANCEY
(1814-1863)
Note: Lowndes is pronounced "lounds"

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Portrait Collection of William Lowndes Yancey

Bibliography of William Lowndes Yancey sources

Additional info concerning William Lowndes Yancey

The Family that Broke a Nation

Last Will and Testament

Montgomery Alabama Scenes

A Phrenological Study of William Lowndes Yancey 

Benjamin Cudworth Yancey Sr. (father)

Caroline Bird Yancey (mother)

Nathan S. S. Beman (Stepfather) 

Benjamin Cudworth Yancey Jr. (brother)

Benjamin Cunningham Yancey (son)

Dalton Huger Yancey (son)

Goodloe Harper Yancey (son)

Mary E. Yancey Harrell (daughter)

Presentation of George Washington Spy Glasses to William Lowndes Yancey

William Lowndes Yancey and his slaves 

Letter which makes reference to Sarah Caroline Yancey's blindness in one eye. 

"More Charles Yanceys Sorted Out" 

Black Yanceys of Montgomery, Alabama 

Yancey/Clingman Duel

On Line Books:

Life and Times of William Lowndes Yancey

The Fire Eaters - By Eric Walther

William Lowndes Yancey and the Coming of the Civil War by Eric Walther

Sketches of Alabama History

Our Family Keepers - - By Rose Morton 

1862 New York Times article

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