Born in Southern Ohio, Yancey was a successful commercial farmer, a founding member of Edina's Minnehaha Grange No. 398 and the recorder for the 1888 vote that created the Village of Edina, MN. He served on the village council, and his wife, Ellen, founded the first PTA in Edina.
The Yanceys were black, part of a large and integrated community that mixed easily in Edina's early days. Their potato and berry farm was where the Edina City Hall now sits at Eden Ave. and Hwy. 100. A noted fruit grower, Yancey employed 75-100 men, women and children on his thriving and successful berry farm.
Beverly ("B.C") Yancey had two wives. The first was Nancy Bass, with whom he had six children. After Nancy died, B.C. married Ellen Bruce in 1870. B.C. and Ellen had two children.
They were a musical family who loved to sing and dance, were very much a part of community life and were "movers and shakers" of their time.
The Yancey legacy lives on in diaries that date from 1880 to 1915, donated by a descendant to the Edina Historical Society.
The Yanceys were black, part of a large and integrated community that mixed easily in Edina's early days. Their potato and berry farm was where the Edina City Hall now sits at Eden Ave. and Hwy. 100. A noted fruit grower, Yancey employed 75-100 men, women and children on his thriving and successful berry farm.
Beverly ("B.C") Yancey had two wives. The first was Nancy Bass, with whom he had six children. After Nancy died, B.C. married Ellen Bruce in 1870. B.C. and Ellen had two children.
They were a musical family who loved to sing and dance, were very much a part of community life and were "movers and shakers" of their time.
The Yancey legacy lives on in diaries that date from 1880 to 1915, donated by a descendant to the Edina Historical Society.
Born in Southern Ohio, Yancey was a successful commercial farmer, a founding member of Edina's Minnehaha Grange No. 398 and the recorder for the 1888 vote that created the Village of Edina, MN. He served on the village council, and his wife, Ellen, founded the first PTA in Edina.
The Yanceys were black, part of a large and integrated community that mixed easily in Edina's early days. Their potato and berry farm was where the Edina City Hall now sits at Eden Ave. and Hwy. 100. A noted fruit grower, Yancey employed 75-100 men, women and children on his thriving and successful berry farm.
Beverly ("B.C") Yancey had two wives. The first was Nancy Bass, with whom he had six children. After Nancy died, B.C. married Ellen Bruce in 1870. B.C. and Ellen had two children.
They were a musical family who loved to sing and dance, were very much a part of community life and were "movers and shakers" of their time.
The Yancey legacy lives on in diaries that date from 1880 to 1915, donated by a descendant to the Edina Historical Society.
The Yanceys were black, part of a large and integrated community that mixed easily in Edina's early days. Their potato and berry farm was where the Edina City Hall now sits at Eden Ave. and Hwy. 100. A noted fruit grower, Yancey employed 75-100 men, women and children on his thriving and successful berry farm.
Beverly ("B.C") Yancey had two wives. The first was Nancy Bass, with whom he had six children. After Nancy died, B.C. married Ellen Bruce in 1870. B.C. and Ellen had two children.
They were a musical family who loved to sing and dance, were very much a part of community life and were "movers and shakers" of their time.
The Yancey legacy lives on in diaries that date from 1880 to 1915, donated by a descendant to the Edina Historical Society.
Gravesite Details
Buried Nov. 3, 1905 according to the burial ledger of Oak Hill.
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