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 | | David Vance was born at or near Winchester, Virginia, about 1745, the oldest son of Samuel Vance and descended on the paternal side from the DeVaux family in Normandy, Vance being a corruption of DeVaux. |
 | | Both Zebulon's grandfathers, David Vance I and Zebulon Baird, were prominent in the early history of Buncombe County. |
 | | Zebulon Baird Vance, a precocious, mischievous, charismatic child, was educated first at an old field school, then studied a year at Washington College in Tennessee until his father's death in 1844. |
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