Material and correspondence collected by Dennis Yancey from a number of individuals with interest in the Yancey family in the United States. These materials trace various Yancey families in America giving insight into these families, their origins and descendants. Includes Yancey, Williamson, Kemper, Nanney, Beadles, Thommason, Etherington, Ethington, and related families.

James Dennis married Leonora Smith, and had ten children; nine died between 1915 and 1979, and the oldest is still living. Descendants lived in California, New York, Michigan, Ohio, Minnesota, Alaska, Alabama, Florida and elsewhere.

Ancestral chart, family group records, and photocopies of sources concerning the genealogy and family history of Maxwell R. Thurman, Vice Chief of Staff of the Army in 1987. Maxwell R. Thurman (b. 1931) was the son of John Royster Thurman Jr. and Rose Feeney Moran. The lineage goes back to ancestors who lived in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Ireland.

Family group sheets, documents, census records and other materials relating to families who lived in Henderson county, Kentucky and were related in some way to Shirley Moody from about 1750. Individuals now live in Indiana, Kentucky, and elsewhere. Includes Moody, Bugg, Eblen, Hunter, Powell, Hester, Marks, Royster, and related families.

Hezekiah Hobgood was born in about 1725 in Norfolk County, Virginia. He was living in Granville County, North Carolina by 1758. He married Elizabeth and they had twelve children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina. .

William Monroe Hendrick was born 13 August 1884 near Shelby, North Carolina. His parents were John William Hendrick and Mary Jane Spake. He married Susie Irene Leigh (1894-1926), daughter of Thomas Sylvanus Leigh and Martha Elizabeth Bumgardner, 2 December 1914 in Columbia, South Carolina. They had four daughters. William died 27 September 1969 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in North Carolina,...

" John Christian Church bought land in Hawkins County, Tenn, Jan. 5, 1797, located near present Sneedville. ... He was probably buried near Glinch River and near Hawkins-Hancock line. His will, made May 30, 1813, and proved in Hawkins County on March 1, 1814, indicated he died latter part of 1813 or ear. 1814. In that will he named his wife Eleanor ... "--P. 1. John Edens was born in 1803 in Virginia. On 28 January 1823 he married Frances "Fannie"...

Charles Columbus Watt (1856-1942) was the son of William Hume Watt and Melinda Raybourn Watt. In 1882, he and Minnie (Minne) Ellen Royster (1863-1943) were married. Descendants of their seven surviving children lived chiefly in Indiana, but later scattered to Montana, California, Nevada, Colorado and elsewhere.