One memory of his youth was listening to a record by black pianist Jimmy Yancey during a German air raid.

LeRoy Pope Walker of Alabama was made Secretary of War, after being recommended for this post by Clement Clay and William Yancey ( both of whom declined to accept cabinet positions themselves ).

Pro Bowl wide receiver Yancey Thigpen was the team's leading receiver with 85 receptions for 1, 307 yards and 5 touchdowns.

In Alabama, with no available candidate sufficiently opposed to the proviso, William L. Yancey secured the adoption by the state Democratic convention of the so-called " Alabama Platform ", which was endorsed by the legislatures of Alabama and Georgia and by Democratic state conventions in Florida and Virginia.

Teacher Carolyn Foster and student Diane Collins were killed, and teacher Carolyn Yancey was wounded in the incident.

Yancey County was named in honor of one of North Carolina's most distinguished statesmen, Bartlett Yancey, of Caswell County.

A statue of Captain Burns stands on a 40 ton, Mount Airy granite pedestal in the center of the town's public square, which was given the official name of " Bailey Square " by the Yancey County Board of Commissioners on September 1, 1930.

The county was formed in 1849 from parts of Ashe County, Caldwell County, Wilkes County, and Yancey County.

Mitchell County was one of the three dry counties in North Carolina, along with Graham and Yancey, but in March, 2009, after much controversy, the Town of Spruce Pine approved beer, wine, and ABC store sales.

The county was formed in 1861 from parts of Burke County, Caldwell County, McDowell County, Watauga County, and Yancey County.

The county was formed in 1851 from parts of Buncombe County and Yancey County.

As an example, Bartlett Yancey, Jr., was Speaker of the North Carolina Senate 1817-1827, and during part of this time Romulus Mitchell Saunders was Speaker of the North Carolina House of Commons.

In 1833 parts of Burke County and Buncombe County were combined to form Yancey County, and in 1838 the southern part of what was left of Buncombe County became Henderson County.

In 1849, to form Watauga County, the southwestern part of Ashe County was combined with parts of Caldwell County, Wilkes County, and Yancey County.

One famous resident was William Lowndes Yancey, a firebrand newspaper editor and statesman who was an influential advocate of States ' rights and Southern secession.

In 1841, Charles S. Yancey became circuit judge of the Thirteenth Judicial District, to which Newton County was attached.

It was named after Rufus Yancey McAden, president of McAden Mills, the town's textile mill.

He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1931 for his performance as Yancey Cravat in Cimarron, in which he shared top-billing with Irene Dunne.

Set in 1913, the film was based on Rebecca Yancey Williams's own family.

" Although the neighboring states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri would also produce boogie-woogie players and their boogie-woogie tunes, and despite the fact that Chicago would become known as the center for this music through such pianists as Jimmy Yancey, Albert Ammons, and Meade " Lux " Lewis, Texas was home to an environment that fostered creation of boogie-style: the lumber, cattle, turpentine, and oil industries, all served by an expanding railway system from the northern corner of East Texas to the Gulf Coast and from the Louisiana border to Dallas and West Texas.

In his youth he was influenced by the pianist Jimmy Yancey.

Slavery was discussed only when Russell asked Yancey whether the international slave trade would be reopened by the Confederacy ( a position Yancey had advocated in recent years ); Yancey ’ s reply was that this was not part of the Confederacy ’ s agenda.

" In 1822 Polk resigned his position as clerk to run his successful campaign for the Tennessee state legislature in 1823, in which he defeated incumbent William Yancey, becoming the new representative of Maury County.

* On Jimmy Yancey ( 1973 ) for 9 winds, piano and double bass ( written for Orkest de Volharding )

The team did not have any outstanding deep threats, but wide receivers Yancey Thigpen recorded 38 receptions for 648 yards, Kevin Dyson had 54 receptions for 658 yards, and tight end Frank Wycheck gained 69 receptions for 641 yards.

The new sheriff and his deputy — Rusty of course — have a hard time not just fighting the criminals but also convincing all the farmers who have been wronged by Surrett that mob rule (" Come on, boys, let's take ' em out to the plaza ") is out of the question: When Yancey ( Victor Jory ), one of Surrett's thugs, is in jail, Hatton has to protect him against the furious men outside who, not caring for Yancey's right to a fair trial, want to take the law into their own hands and lynch him right then and there.

In the year 1796, one of the early land speculators, John Gray Blount, paid for 326, 640 acres ( 1322 km² ) of land, a portion of which later became Yancey County, N. C.

Some say it is named for James Yancey ( 1768 – 1829 ).

Others claim it is named for his younger brother, Bartlett Yancey, Jr. ( 1785-1828 ).

On April 6, 2010, the Town of Burnsville, the only incorporated town within Yancey County, held a referendum providing for the legal sale of alcohol within the town limits.

Douglas Yancey " Doug " Funnie ( Voiced by Billy West in the Nickelodeon series and by Tom McHugh in the Disney series ): Doug is the title character, a shy, extremely insecure, somewhat clumsy, gullible, naïve, 11½ ( turns 12 in the Disney series ) year old boy with an enormous heart, a large imagination, a talent for writing, and a love for music.

At the 1858 Southern commercial convention, William L. Yancey of Alabama called for the reopening of the African slave trade.

Yancey tried to make his demand for a slave code moderate enough to get Southern support and yet extreme enough to enrage Northerners and split the party.

The Schwob School of Music is contained in the south wing of the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, while the art and theater departments reside in the Corn Center for the Visual Arts, the Yancey Center, and the Rankin Arts Center.

Yancey was wanted in Georgia for double murder of his wife Linda Yancey and a day laborer.

Caswell County produced many political leaders, including Bartlett Yancey, Jr., Archibald Debow Murphey, Romulus Mitchell Saunders, Bedford Brown, Calvin Graves, John Kerr, Jacob Thompson, and others.

They were an immense influence on other pianists, including Jimmy Yancey, Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons and many others.

In March 1842, Yancey sold his newspaper because of increasing debt ( throughout his career as an editor he faced the problem of many fellow editors — obtaining and collecting on subscriptions ), and he opened a law practice instead.

" Later Yancey would criticize many of Davis ' actions.

While many of the fire-eaters were opposed to the selection of a relative moderate like Davis, Yancey accepted him as a good choice.

However, this issue is contested, with many attributing the Yanceyville name to James Yancey, the brother of Bartlett Yancey, Jr. For an interesting discussion on this issue see When the Past Refused to Die: A History of Caswell County North Carolina 1777-1977, by William S. Powell ( 1977 ) at 341-342.