Mary Chambers YANCY

   Other names for Mary were Mrs. John HORSLEY and Mrs. Mary Chambers HORSLEY.

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  General Notes:

Mary C. Yancey, born January 22, 1792, died in May 1873, was a daughter of Maj. Charles Yancey., born in Trinity Parish, Louisa County, Va., March 22, 1770; married, April 5, 1791, Anne Spencer (born May 30, 1769, died May 29, 1795), of Buckingham, and re­moved to that county; was high sheriff of the county, 1797­1799; "for 34 years in the Va. Legislature;" member Convention of 1829-1830; a noted man in his day, was called "the Duke of Buckingham," and was "a wheel-horse of the unterrified Democracy." He died April 18, 1857. He was the son of Rev. Robert Yancey (rector of Tillotson and Trinity parishes, in Louisa County, Va., from 1768 to his death, in 1774), by his wife, Ann Crawford, whose funeral sermon was preached at "Traveller's Rest" (Maj­or Yancey's old home in Buckingham County), by Bishop Moore, of Virginia, January 1, 1815. She was a daughter of David (1697-1766) and Ann Anderson (1708-1803) Crawford. See "Memorials of the Crawfords."]

Mary married John HORSLEY, son of John HORSLEY and Fanny STARKE, on 25 Sep 1817. (John HORSLEY was born in 1785 and died in Dec 1827.)