Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 7th ed.,
1887, Owen Co.

RICHARD H. YANCEY was born in Owen County, Ky., December 30, 1835, and
is a son of Richard H. and Jane (Sale) Yancey.  Richard H. Yancey, Sr.,
was a native of Culpeper County, Va., and settled in Franklin in 1804.
In 1824 he moved to Owen County and engaged in farming.  He took part in
the early Indian wars in Kentucky, and held the rank of colonel in the
State militia.  Richard H. Yancey, paternal grandfather of our subject,
was a native of Culpeper County, Va., and immigrated to Franklin County,
Ky., in 1804, where he was one of the original settlers; he was a farmer
by occupation.  William Sale, the maternal grandfather of Richard H.
Yancey, Jr., was a native of Vermont, and settled in Kentucky at an early
day.  The subject of this sketch was reared on a farm in Owen County, and
received his education in the same county.  He is the owner of a fine
farm of 400 acres, where he lives, and which he devotes to the raising
of fine stock and tobacco, as well as general farming.  He is a Democrat
politically, and was elected magistrate on that ticket in 1887.  In 1860
he married Nanny R. Threlkeld, daughter of Elijah Threlkeld, of Owen
county, a Baptist preacher.  Two children have blessed this union: Dixie
and Louella.  Mr. Yancey is a prominent Mason, and a member of the
Baptist Church.

Yancey Sale Threlkeld
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Franklin-KY Culpeper-VA VT

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