Kentucky: A History of the State, Perrin, Battle, Kniffin, 8th ed., 1888, Jefferson Co. CHARLES YANCEY WILSON was born in Barren County, Ky., November 24, 1833, and is a son of ______ and Mary (Yancey) Wilson, the latter a daughter of Joel Yancey, who represented the third district in Congress for twelve years, and died about 1837. Subject was brought up on the farm, until he was sixteen years of age, and educated in the country schools. He then became a clerk in a store, and from 1856 was engaged in business for himself until 1862, when he entered the army, joining Company C, Second Kentucky Cavalry, Morgan's command. He was paroled at Columbus, Miss., in 1865, and returned home. In 1869 he went to New Orleans, and after other moves came to Louisville in 1878, took a partnership in the Boone Tobacco Warehouse, and was subsequently elected tobacco inspector for six years. He quit the tobacco business in 1887, and engaged in insurance. He was married, in 1866, to Miss Lizzie Burch. Wilson Yancey Burch = Barren-KY New_Orleans-Orleans-LA http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/jefferson/wilson.cy.txt