Cousins, In the 1880 Census for Vernon County, MO is the following family: Benjamine Yelton age 40, b. IN, parents both b. VA Martha Yelton age 26, b. IL William Yelton age 7, b. MO Etha Yelton age 5, b. MO (this is a girl) I think this must be Benjamin F. Yelton, brother of Oliver Perry Yelton and son of William Yelton & Mary Lockwood. According to the Vernon County GenWeb site, B.F. Yelton is mentioned on p. 298 of a history of Vernon County. I e-mailed a lookup request, and learned that he was mentioned as being a Federal soldier from Kansas who was wounded in a battle with bushwhackers at the Riggs house. This item also says that he was, at the time of the writing, a citizen of Nevada (presumably Nevada, MO, which is in Vernon County). Does anyone have any further information on this family? Cheryl