This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/igB.2ACE/2349.1 Message Board Post: Date Published: September 11, 2004 Historic Yancey's Tavern sold at auction Author: CLIFFORD JEFFERY KINGSPORT - A piece of Tennessee history went up for sale Saturday. Yancey's Tavern, believed to be one of the oldest houses in the state, was put up for auction along with 16 other tracts of land by the family that has owned the real estate since 1889. I found this article in the Kingsport Times News but it doesn't say anything about Dempsey. Could this be the one? The rest of the article is at this link: http://www.timesnews.net/archives/index3.php?id=9455525