Eldest child of Andrew and Barbara Yancey of Belfort, Lewis County, New York
Rites held for Erwin E. Yancey
The funeral for Erwin E. Yancey, 80, of Belfort, was Thursday, Sept. 10 at the Scanlon Funeral Home, and 2 P.M. at the Salem Christian Fellowship Church, Beaver Falls. Mr. Yancey died Monday evening after he was crushed by a bull in a farm field near his Long Pond Road home. He is survived by a son, Thomas, a professor of Geology at Texas A&M University; two sisters, Mrs. Ella Cooney, Newark, and Mrs. M. C. (Hilda) Virler, Castorland; two brothers, Haskell A. Yancey, Croghan, and Joseph Yancey, Belfort; three grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. A brother, Howard and a sister, Lena, died before him. Born on the family farm on September 19, 1900, a son of Andrew and Barbara Lyndaker Yancey, he was educated in the rural schools and married Helen Zehr in 1937. The marriage ended in divorce. Mr Yancey, a veteran of World War II, was inducted into the American Maple Museum Hall of Fame in May 1980. He worked in the woods on the family farm and the Yancey Sugar Bush at Long Pond all his life. He was a member of the Salem Christian Fellowship Church, Beaver Falls.
Journal and Republican, Sept. 16, 1981, p. 8
Rites held for Erwin E. Yancey
The funeral for Erwin E. Yancey, 80, of Belfort, was Thursday, Sept. 10 at the Scanlon Funeral Home, and 2 P.M. at the Salem Christian Fellowship Church, Beaver Falls. Mr. Yancey died Monday evening after he was crushed by a bull in a farm field near his Long Pond Road home. He is survived by a son, Thomas, a professor of Geology at Texas A&M University; two sisters, Mrs. Ella Cooney, Newark, and Mrs. M. C. (Hilda) Virler, Castorland; two brothers, Haskell A. Yancey, Croghan, and Joseph Yancey, Belfort; three grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. A brother, Howard and a sister, Lena, died before him. Born on the family farm on September 19, 1900, a son of Andrew and Barbara Lyndaker Yancey, he was educated in the rural schools and married Helen Zehr in 1937. The marriage ended in divorce. Mr Yancey, a veteran of World War II, was inducted into the American Maple Museum Hall of Fame in May 1980. He worked in the woods on the family farm and the Yancey Sugar Bush at Long Pond all his life. He was a member of the Salem Christian Fellowship Church, Beaver Falls.
Journal and Republican, Sept. 16, 1981, p. 8
Eldest child of Andrew and Barbara Yancey of Belfort, Lewis County, New York
Rites held for Erwin E. Yancey
The funeral for Erwin E. Yancey, 80, of Belfort, was Thursday, Sept. 10 at the Scanlon Funeral Home, and 2 P.M. at the Salem Christian Fellowship Church, Beaver Falls. Mr. Yancey died Monday evening after he was crushed by a bull in a farm field near his Long Pond Road home. He is survived by a son, Thomas, a professor of Geology at Texas A&M University; two sisters, Mrs. Ella Cooney, Newark, and Mrs. M. C. (Hilda) Virler, Castorland; two brothers, Haskell A. Yancey, Croghan, and Joseph Yancey, Belfort; three grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. A brother, Howard and a sister, Lena, died before him. Born on the family farm on September 19, 1900, a son of Andrew and Barbara Lyndaker Yancey, he was educated in the rural schools and married Helen Zehr in 1937. The marriage ended in divorce. Mr Yancey, a veteran of World War II, was inducted into the American Maple Museum Hall of Fame in May 1980. He worked in the woods on the family farm and the Yancey Sugar Bush at Long Pond all his life. He was a member of the Salem Christian Fellowship Church, Beaver Falls.
Journal and Republican, Sept. 16, 1981, p. 8
Rites held for Erwin E. Yancey
The funeral for Erwin E. Yancey, 80, of Belfort, was Thursday, Sept. 10 at the Scanlon Funeral Home, and 2 P.M. at the Salem Christian Fellowship Church, Beaver Falls. Mr. Yancey died Monday evening after he was crushed by a bull in a farm field near his Long Pond Road home. He is survived by a son, Thomas, a professor of Geology at Texas A&M University; two sisters, Mrs. Ella Cooney, Newark, and Mrs. M. C. (Hilda) Virler, Castorland; two brothers, Haskell A. Yancey, Croghan, and Joseph Yancey, Belfort; three grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. A brother, Howard and a sister, Lena, died before him. Born on the family farm on September 19, 1900, a son of Andrew and Barbara Lyndaker Yancey, he was educated in the rural schools and married Helen Zehr in 1937. The marriage ended in divorce. Mr Yancey, a veteran of World War II, was inducted into the American Maple Museum Hall of Fame in May 1980. He worked in the woods on the family farm and the Yancey Sugar Bush at Long Pond all his life. He was a member of the Salem Christian Fellowship Church, Beaver Falls.
Journal and Republican, Sept. 16, 1981, p. 8
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