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JUDGE DALTON HUGHER YANCEY

    Judge Dalton Hugher Yancey was born in Greenville, South Carolina February 13, 1845, son of William Lowndes Yancey and Caroline (Earle) Yancey. His father was one of the foremost figures in the Southern Confederacy, having served in the United States Congress for two terms as a Representative from Alabama, and in 1861 was appointed by President Jefferson Davis as Minister Plenipotentiary to Europe. He returned from Europe in 1862 and was elected to the Confederate Senate. The Yanceys had come to this country from Wales in 1642 with Governor Sir William Berkely and settled in Virginia. W. L. Yancey’s grandfather, James Yancey, served as lieutenant in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
    Dalton H. Yancey moved with his family to Alabama where they settled in the neighborhood of Wetumpka. He attended the University at Montgomery, the College at LaGrange, and in 1861 entered the University of Alabama but left in 1863 to enter the Confederate Army. He served as captain of the 7th Alabama Company, Claton’s Brigade, throughout the war, the company being sent to the Gulf Coast where it did patrol duty from Pensacola to the western towns of Mississippi. In 1864 his regiment was transferred to the Forrest Brigade and became part of the Forest Scouts; he remained with this command until the end of the war. He surrendered at Athens, Georgia, April, 1865.
    After the close of the war he entered the University of Georgia and received his degree in 1866. In 1867 he and his brother Benjamin C. Yancey, left for Brazil, but finding the country unfavorable, he returned to this country in 1868.
    On October 14, 1869, at Cusseta, Georgia, he married Hettie McCook, only daughter of W. Wright McCook and Ruhamah (Wilson) Harp McCook. He made his home at Cussetta for a while and was made Trustee of the Cussetta Academy.

    from: History of Lake County Florida, Wm. T. Kennedy, Editor-in-chief, History of Lake County Florida Part II, Biographical. Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Lake County, Florida p309-310.

from: History of Lake County Florida, Wm. T. Kennedy, Editor-in-chief, History of Lake County Florida Part II, Biographical. Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Lake County, Florida p153

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