YANCEY, SALLIE

Sallie Overby was born around 1872, in the Kittrell, NC area.¹1870 US Census Kittrell Township: Ancestry.com. 1870 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/34364118:7163: accessed 24 Jul 2022. Original data: 1870 U.S. census, population schedules. NARA microfilm publication M593, 1,761 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.Minnesota census schedules for 1870. NARA microfilm publication T132, 13 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d. She was the eighth child of William Exum Overby and the former Amy Williamson.²Father: Amy Overby death certificate: Ancestry.com. North Carolina, U.S., Death Certificates, 1909-1976 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1121/images/S123_1086-0063?pId=1853646: accessed 21 Jul 2022. Original data: North Carolina State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. North Carolina Death Certificates. Microfilm S.123. Rolls 19-242, 280, 313-682, 1040-1297. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina.. Mother: 1870 US Census Kittrell Township.

Mother: 1870 US Census Kittrell Township. She moved with her parents to Durham in the late 1870s, where her father ran a restaurant.³Move: 1880 US Census Durham Township : Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1880 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited use license and other terms and conditions applicable to this site. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/13428901:6742: accessed 25 Jul 2022. Original data: Tenth Census of the United States, 1880. (NARA microfilm publication T9, 1,454 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C.

Restaurant: Directory of the Business and Citizens of Durham City for 1887 (Durham, N.C.: Levi Branson, 1887) p. 99, Overby surname; digital image, “North Carolina City Directories,” DigitalNC (https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/25123 : accessed 27 Jul 2022).

Sallie’s first marriage was to D.A. Macon on 23 January 1890.⁴Daniel Macon marriage record: Series: Marriage Register (1882 – 1975). Ancestry.com. North Carolina, U.S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/9276706:60548: accessed 5 Aug 2022. Original data: North Carolina County Registers of Deeds. Microfilm. Record Group 048. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC. This is the Dan A. Macon who, the previous year, was working as a waiter in the family restaurant at Carrington’s corner—the northwest corner of S. Mangum and Peabody (now Ramseur).⁵Waiter: Turner & Co.’s Durham Directory for the Years 1889 and 1890 (Durham, NC: E.F. Turner & Co., 1889) p. 116, Macon surname; digital image, “North Carolina City Directories,” DigitalNC (https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/25129 : accessed 5 Aug 2022).

Carrington’s corner: “122 South Mangum Street—Carrington’s Bar,” Open Durham, https://opendurham.org/buildings/122-south-mangum-street-carringtons-bar: accessed 5 Aug 2022.

“Meals At All Hours,” Durham Recorder (Durham NC), 3 Feb 1888 p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/image/89119216/?terms=Carrington%27s%20corner&match=1: accessed 3 Aug 2022. They had a daughter, Georgia (also Georgiana or Georgina) Macon, on 5 June of that same year.⁶Georgia Macon Social Security death index: Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=3693&h=35517220&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=2442: accessed 14 Aug 2022. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration. The 1892 Durham City Directory shows Daniel and Sallie living at the Overby family house at 305 Pine, presumably with Georgia.⁷Ramsey’s Durham Directory 1892 (Durham, N.C: N. A. Ramsey, 1892) p. 196, Macon surname; digital image, “North Carolina City Directories,” DigitalNC (https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/25120 : accessed 5 Aug 2022). Interestingly, the Richmond VA City Directory for 1892 also shows a Daniel A. Macon working as a waiter, as does the 1891 directory.⁸Richmond VA city directories: 1891: Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1080104560:2469: accessed 17 Aug 2022. Original data: Original sources vary according to directory. The title of the specific directory being viewed is listed at the top of the image viewer page. Check the directory title page image for full title and publication information.

1892: Ancestry.com. U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/683528170:2469: accessed 17 Aug 2022. Original data: Original sources vary according to directory. The title of the specific directory being viewed is listed at the top of the image viewer page. Check the directory title page image for full title and publication information.

We don’t have any further details of Daniel and Sallie’s marriage—whether Daniel died or the couple separated—but in the 1890’s Sallie seems to have relocated to New Bedford MA.⁹Robert Yancey marriage record: “Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33S7-9RSK-HJF?cc=1469062 : 28 November 2018), > image 1 of 1; State Archives, Boston. It was common around the turn of the twentieth century for African Americans to move north in search of work, sometimes leaving their children behind until they got settled.¹⁰“The Great Migration (1910-1970),” National Archives (Washington DC), https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/migrations/great-migration: accessed 16 Aug 2022. This may have been the case with Sallie, who seems to have left Georgia at the Overby family home on Pine Street.¹¹1900 US Census Durham: Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7602/images/4117818_00629?pId=68146415: accessed 21 Jul 2022. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls.

Sallie married Robert D. Yancey in New Bedford on 7 June 1897.¹²Robert Yancey marriage record. Note that the bride’s parents are listed as Albert and Sarah Overby. Sallie had an older brother Albert (married to Addie) and a sister-in-law Sarah (married to her brother William Jr.), and it’s possible that Albert was taking her father’s place at the wedding (maybe giving away the bride), as we believe her father was deceased at this time. Sarah might also have been a member of the wedding, Matron of Honor, perhaps.  The 1900 Federal Census shows Sallie and Robert living in New Bedford, Robert working as a laborer. Also living with the couple was Sallie’s younger sister Mary, who was a music teacher at the age of only 16.¹³1900 US Census New Bedford: Year: 1900; Census Place: New Bedford Ward 4, Bristol, Massachusetts; Roll: 637; Page: 1; Enumeration District: 0190; FHL microfilm: 1240638. Ancestry.com. 1900 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/22799489:7602: accessed 4 Aug 2022. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1900. T623, 1854 rolls. New Bedford city directories between 1898 and 1903 list Robert as a cook.¹⁴ “New Bedford, Massachusetts City Directories,” Archive.org. https://archive.org/details/newbedfordfreenewbedfordcitydirectories?query=Yancy&sin=TXT&sort=-date. Georgia, meanwhile, still in Durham, seems to have taken her stepfather’s last name.¹⁵1900 US Census Durham. We can’t find Robert or Sallie in the 1910 Federal Census. Sallie moved back to Durham without Robert sometime between 1908 and 1918. She died there on 26 April 1918 and was buried in Geer Cemetery.¹⁶Sallie Yancey death certificate: Ancestry.com. North Carolina, U.S., Death Certificates, 1909-1976 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1736620:1121: accessed 4 Aug 2022. Original data: North Carolina State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. North Carolina Death Certificates. Microfilm S.123. Rolls 19-242, 280, 313-682, 1040-1297. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina. A 1918 draft registration shows Robert living in Asbury Park NJ with what appears to be a second wife named Elizabeth.¹⁷Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/32516328:6482: accessed 6 Aug 2022. Original data: United States, Selective Service System. World War I Selective Service System Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. M1509, 4,582 rolls. Imaged from Family History Library microfilm. A death index for New Jersey lists him as dying in March 1920.¹⁸Ancestry.com. New Jersey, U.S., Death Index, 1901-2017 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/5452009:61260: accessed 6 Aug 2022. Original data: Death Indexes. New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, New Jersey.

Sallie and Robert had their own daughter, Friendrica, born in 1906 or 1908 in either New Bedford or Michigan; records disagree.¹⁹1906 and New Bedford: Friendrica death certificate: North Carolina State Archives; Raleigh, North Carolina; North Carolina Death Certificates. Ancestry.com. North Carolina, U.S., Death Certificates, 1909-1976 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/1851309:1121: accessed 10 Aug 2022. Original data: North Carolina State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. North Carolina Death Certificates. Microfilm S.123. Rolls 19-242, 280, 313-682, 1040-1297. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina.

1908 and Michigan: 1920 US Census Durham: Year: 1920; Census Place: Durham Ward 3, Durham, North Carolina; Roll: T625_1292; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 55. Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/27190222:6061: accessed 7 Aug 2022. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City). Friendrica was adopted by her aunt Mary’s family in Durham after her mother’s death, but died herself in 1920, and was also buried in Geer Cemetery.²⁰Adopted: 1920 US Census Durham.

Death: Friendrica death certificate. For more information, see Friendrica Yancey’s life story.

Georgia Macon Yancey, the daughter Sallie had with Daniel Macon, married Joseph Bowden Lashley on 20 August 1908 in Durham, a wedding that Robert and Sallie came back from New Bedford to witness.²¹Georgia Macon marriage certificate: Series: Marriage Licenses – Colored (1809 – 1975). Ancestry.com. North Carolina, U.S., Marriage Records, 1741-2011 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/9793418:60548: accessed 12 Aug 2022. Original data: North Carolina County Registers of Deeds. Microfilm. Record Group 048. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, NC. Georgia and Joe had three children: Joseph R. (b. 1910), Harold T. (b. 1911), and Sallye S. (b. 1916).²²1920 US Census Aberdeen: Year: 1920; Census Place: Aberdeen, Moore, North Carolina; Roll: T625_1300; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 93. Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6061/images/4442130_01030?pId=11341276: accessed 12 Aug 2022. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City). The 1910 Census for Aberdeen, NC, shows Joe, Georgia, and newborn Joe R. living on Rock Fish Shop Street, Joe B. working as a barber and Georgia as a teacher.²³Year: 1910; Census Place: Sandhill, Moore, North Carolina; Roll: T624_1119; Page: 6B; Enumeration District: 0073; FHL microfilm: 1375132. Ancestry.com. 1910 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/175681855:7884: accessed 14 Aug 2022. Original data: Thirteenth Census of the United States, 1910 (NARA microfilm publication T624, 1,178 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA.  The two were still together as of the latest available census in 1950.²⁴United States of America, Bureau of the Census; Washington, D.C.; Seventeenth Census of the United States, 1950; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790-2007; Record Group Number: 29; Residence Date: 1950; Home in 1950: Aberdeen, Moore, North Carolina; Roll: 2466; Sheet Number: 10; Enumeration District: 63-35. Ancestry.com. 1950 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2022. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/149268233:62308: accessed 14 Aug 2022. Original data: Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. 1913-1/1/1972. Population Schedules for the 1950 Census, 1950 – 1950. Washington, DC: National Archives at Washington, DC. Population Schedules for the 1950 Census, 1950 – 1950. NAID: 43290879. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 – 2007, Record Group 29. National Archives at Washington, DC., Washington, DC. Joe died on 20 Jun 1954.²⁵North Carolina State Archives; Raleigh, North Carolina; North Carolina Death Certificates. Ancestry.com. North Carolina, U.S., Death Certificates, 1909-1976 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. https://www.ancestry.com/discoveryui-content/view/844607:1121: accessed 14 Aug 2022. Original data: North Carolina State Board of Health, Bureau of Vital Statistics. North Carolina Death Certificates. Microfilm S.123. Rolls 19-242, 280, 313-682, 1040-1297. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina. Georgia’s social security records indicate that she was living in Washington CD in 1964, and that she died there in August 1979.²⁶Social Security Administration; Washington D.C., USA; Social Security Death Index, Master File. Ancestry.com. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?dbid=3693&h=35517220&indiv=try&o_vc=Record:OtherRecord&rhSource=2442: accessed 14 Aug 2022. Original data: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.

BORN: 1872.²⁸1870 US Census Kittrell Township.

DIED: 26 April 1918.²⁹Sallie Yancey death certificate.

BIRTH PLACE: Kittrell, NC.³⁰1870 US Census Kittrell Township.

DEATH PLACE: Durham, NC.³¹Sallie Yancey death certificate.

SPOUSE: Daniel Macon, Robert D. Yancey.³²Daniel: Daniel Macon marriage record.

Robert: Robert Yancey marriage record.

PARENTS: William Exum Overby and Amy Williamson.³³Father: Amy Overby death certificate.

Mother: 1870 US Census Kittrell Township.

CHILDREN: Georgia Macon Yancey Lashley, Friendrica Yancey.³⁴Georgia: Georgia Macon Social Security death index.

Friendrica: Friendrica death certificate.

OTHER FAMILY: Grandchildren Joseph R. Macon (b. 1910), Harold T. Macon (b. 1911), and Sallye S. Macon (b. 1916).³⁵Year: 1920; Census Place: Aberdeen, Moore, North Carolina; Roll: T625_1300; Page: 7B; Enumeration District: 93. Ancestry.com. 1920 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/6061/images/4442130_01030?pId=11341276: accessed 12 Aug 2022. Original data: Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, D.C. For details on the contents of the film numbers, visit the following NARA web page: NARA. Note: Enumeration Districts 819-839 are on roll 323 (Chicago City).

FAMILY BURIED IN GEER CEMETERY: Grandmother Hannah Williamson, mother Amy Overby, brother Anderson Overby, daughter Friendrica Yancey, brother-in-law James Armstead.

OCCUPATION: Domestic.³⁶Sallie Yancey death certificate.

CHURCH: N/A

AFFILIATIONS: N/A

ADDRESS: 509 Pine Street.³⁷Sallie Yancey death certificate.

MILITARY SERVICE: N/A