Papers of the Yancey family, 1899, 1904-1953.

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Papers of the Yancey family, 1899, 1904-1953.

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The collection consist of papers relating to the Yancey family, B.F. Yancey, and the Esmont Colored School, Scottsville, Va., which he founded. These papers include letters, photographs, school records, clippings, greeting cards and invitations, memoranda books and financial and legal papers. There are also papers pertaining to the Improved Order Shepherds & Daughters of Bethlehem, the Sons of Esmont Lodge No. 7444 of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, and the New Hope Baptist Church, Esmont, Va. A scrapbook is filled with clippings pertaining to African-Americans. Major correspondents in the collection include B.F. Yancey; his wife Harriet Yancey; their children Roger Yancey a student at the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute and the Christiansburg Normal and Industrial Institute and later a lawyer in Plainfield, N.J.; Benjamin Franklin Yancey, Jr., a student at the Virginia Technical School and College, Lynchburg; and May Yancey, a student at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute, Petersburg; and grandchildren william R. Eason, and Roger M. Yancey, Jr., in the 3703rd Training Squadron, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio.

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Hampton University (Va.)

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Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virgina, also know as the Normal School, chartered in 1870. From the description of Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute ephemera, 1882-1903 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 639344721 The Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute was chartered in 1870 in Hampton, Virginia. From the guide to the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute ephemera, 1882-1903 and undated, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book ...

Yancey, Benjamin Franklin, d. 1924,

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Yancey, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

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Yancey, Harriet,

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Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute

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New Hope Baptist Church (Esmont, Va.)

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Esmont Colored School (Albemarle County, Va.)

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Improved Order Shepherds and Daughters of Bethlehem.

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Yancey family.

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Yancey, May Elizabeth,

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Christiansburg Normal and Industrial Institute.

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Eason, William R.,

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Yancey, Benjamin Franklin, d. 1915,

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Yancey, Roger McKinley,

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Virginia Training School and College

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