North Carolina Quakers, Anti-Slavery, and the Underground Railroad: Yardley Warner

Brief Biography:

Date of Birth:    02 Nov. 1815                      Place of Birth:  Penn's Manor Farm, Bucks County, Pennsylvania

Date of Death:   04 Jan. 1885                      Place of Death:  North Carolina

Where lived:   Bucks County, PA / Westtown, PA / East Whiteland, Chester County, PA / Philadelphia, PA / Mount Pleasant, Ohio / Greensboro, NC / High Point, NC / Radnorshire, Wales / Jonesboro, TN

Parent's Names:   William and Letitia Field Warner

Spouse's Name(s): Hannah Allen / Anne Elizabeth Horne

Children Names:  Stafford Allen Yardley, Joseph Yardley, and Charles Horne Yardley

Quaker Meeting Membership(s):  Springfield Meeting of Friends, near High Point, N.C

NC Pedia: Warner, Yardley by Treva W. Mathis, 1996

http://ncpedia.org/biography/warner-yardley

1867      Former slave Harmon A. Unthank and Quaker Yardley Warner develop 34 acres in South Greensboro that becomes known as Warnersville.

http://warnersvillecommunity.org/history.html