----- Original Message ----- From: "Cheryl Chasin" <CherylC470@att.net> To: <JNoHoldsBarred@cs.com>; <' yelton-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 9:05 PM Subject: Re: [YELTON] Fw: Martha Elizabeth Seagle West > I don't think Thomas Jefferson Yelton is Martha's son at all. Charles > Yelton married Margaret Brooks 15 July 1856 in Lincoln County, NC. They > appear together in the 1860 Census for Buncombe County, NC. In the 1870 > Census, Margaret Yelton & Thomas are in a separate household from Charles in > Buncombe County, so I would assume the Margaret & Charles were separated or > divorced at that point. > > A recent message to the list states that Charles Yelton married Martha > Elizabeth Lewis West in Madison County on 24 Aug 1876. > > I think TJ was Margaret's son, not Martha's son. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <JNoHoldsBarred@cs.com> > To: <CherylC470@att.net> > Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 7:47 PM > Subject: Re: [YELTON] Fw: Martha Elizabeth Seagle West > > > > I do know that my father is William Clarence Yelton. who is the son of TJ > or > > Thomas Jefferson Yelton. It is suspected that he could be the son of > Martha > > West before she married Charles Yelton. If so Charles adopted her son. > My > > Father was a "bastard" child and my grandmother was 21 years yonger > than > > TJ. Any help on this puzzle would help. > > > > Don YElton > > > > I have met the West from Utah and they do look like my kin. > > >