Virginia Stevenson, from Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. Dancy's son, John C. Dancy Jr. was executive director of the Detroit Urban League. His surviving daughter was Lillian G. Reed, and his other son was Dr. Joseph Price Dancy. Dancy died on the morning of December 5, 1920 at his home on 2139 L Street NW in Washington, D.C. His funeral was on December 7, 1920 at Galbraith A. M. E. Zion church. The eulogy was read by his friend, Rev. William Harvey Goler and led by Bishop J. S. Caldwell. Honorary pallbearers were Robert Heberton Terrell, John E. Traylor, Whitefield McKinlay, S. M. Pierre, E. D. Williston, P. B. S. Pinchback, J. Finley Wilson, Simon Green Atkins, Emmett Jay Scott, D. C. Suggs, Thomas E. Jones, and Nathan Williams. He was survived by two sisters, Ella and Martha. In 1889, Dancy's niece, Cottie S. Dancy, married Aaron McDuffie Moore, the first Black medical doctor of Durham, North Carolina. References 1857 births 1920 deaths People from Wilmington, North Carolina People from Washington, D.C. People from Tarboro, North Carolina African-American educators American educators African-American journalists American male journalists African-American people in North Carolina politics Activists for African-American civil rights 19th-century American slaves District of Columbia Recorders of Deeds 20th-century African-American people