My Yancey Connection

My Yancey Connection

  1. I am Albert Hunter Spinks, born 1930 in Memphis, TN; reared in Miss.; currently living in Burlington, NC. My father was:

  2. Albert Grady Spinks (1890-1970). He was born in Kemper Co., Miss. Spent his life in Miss. His mother was:

  3. Undine Brame (1863-1934). She was born in Ala. Lived and died in Kemper Co., Miss. Her father was:

  4. Charles Edward Brame (1823-1892) He was born in Petersburg, VA. Lived in Alabama and Miss. Died in Miss. His mother was:

  5. Betsey Yancey (17??-1823). She was from Mecklenburg Co., Va. Lived in VA and NC. Died in Petersburg, VA. Her son, Charles Edward Brame wrote in his family Bible that Betsey Yancey's father was Sterling Yancey. At one time I did not accept this Bible documentation because Betsey was not included in the 1815 settlement of Sterling Yancey's estate. Lately however, I have learned that illegitimate children in North Carolina of the early 1800's were not allowed to participate in their father's estate without a will, and Sterling had none. So I now accept that Sterling was Betsey Yancey Brame's father and that there is a STRONG possibility that she was born out of wedlock. However, I believe that she was raised, and educated, in the household of Sterling Yancey and Betsey William Yancey. I therefore have modified my records to show Betsey Yancey's father as Sterling Y., with her mother unknown. It therefore follows that Betsey's grandparents were Thornton Yancey and Elizabeth Mitchell; and her great-grandparents were James Yancey and Ann Thornton.