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Benjamin Cunningham Yancey Confederate Veteran Vol. XVII July 1909   BENJAMIN CUNNINGHAM YANCEY, born in Greenville, S.C., July 30, 1836, was the son of Hon. WILLIAM L. YANCEY, one of the most brilliant orators of the South and a historical character in the great struggle between the North and the South. This son was reared in Montgomery, Ala., and graduated from the Univ. of Ala., in 1856, with the degree of Bachelor of Arts and later his law degree from Cumberland Univ., Tenn., and in the same year was admitted to the bar in Montgomery. He served throughout the war as captain of artillery. At the close of the war he removed to Brazil, where he lived for 14 years. In 1873 he was married to Miss LUCY CAINES HALL, who survives him with 5 sons, all fine business men...and one daughter, MRS. LUCY YANCEY FULLER, Baltimore. Returning to the states, Captain YANCEY settled in Florida, where he became a part of the best citizenship of the state. After a painful and lingering illness, he fell asleep in Jesus on the 17th of March, and was buried in Glendale cemetery among the orange groves he had planted.