On 3 January 1904, Robert Yancey Blake was born in Locust Hill, Middlesex County, Virginia. He was male, 6th child in order, parents were married to one another. Father Robert Yancey Blake, Sr.; white; 43; born in Middlesex County; occupation farmer. Mother Margaret Theodore Boughan; white; 36; born in Essex County. Parents married 19 February 1889 in Middlesex County. Certified by Annie Carey Blake of 1503 Call Street, Richmond, Virginia; 65; sister. Registrant signed as Robert Yancey Black of Syringa, Virginia. “An old Bible printed in the year 1886 was presented to this Bureau containing the following unaltered record, made by mother soon after this birth, as stated by an older sister, reading, ‘Robert Yancey, Jr. 2nd, was born Jan. 3, 1904’.” [Commonwealth of Virginia, Delayed Certificate of Birth, 2502, 1 April 1959.]