Roslyn, I don't think Leroy J. Yelton is a likely candidate. I have two in my database. The one that I believe to have been the son of John H. Yelton married America Carson, and they appear with their two children in the 1860 census. This Leroy was born circa 1831. There's another Leroy J. Yelton in the 1880 Census for Menifee Co, KY who was born about 1823, but I have no idea who his parents were. In any case, he can't very well be the deceased Jefferson. But the Shelby County, IN clue is important. That suggests a connection with the family of Robert Yelton, Sr., the son of William Yelton and Sally Mays. Unfortunately, we don't have a complete list of his children, particularly those from his first marriage. From the various censuses, it looks like he had 3 sons we can't specifically identify: one born 1804-1810, one born 1810-1820, and one b. circa 1832. Any of those could have been Jefferson. There's also a Dunn connection in this family, so perhaps it would be worth looking at more closely. Cheryl -----Original Message----- From: nonny984 [mailto:nonny984@insightbb.com] Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 9:36 PM To: YELTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [YELTON] Jefferson Yelton in 1848, John Wright signed papers in the courthouse for Susannah Eldridge saying that she was the orphan of James Eldridge, guardian John Haydon. the 1880 Ky. census says Mary J. was b. in Indiana, and her m. license says Shelby co. In., m. at home of John Wright. I cannot prove that Mary J. is Susan's daughter however. She was b. in 1848, and Mary J. was a widow 4 years later, so I think I just assumed she was, or someone told me- I think I have a paper that says all James Eldridge's children were b. between 1820-40. And I just found a note that someone said that there was a note about Susan when married to Jefferson they had a child, b. 1848 who was reared by John W. & Susan. This was from someone who was in the courthouse and found it. If she was 25 during the 1860 census, she must have only b een 13 or 14 when she had Mary J. Not out of the question I suppose. Susan went on to marry my gggrandfather William Dunn in 1863. It is usually the other way around, isn't it? The men outlived the women Susan and William and his son all died on the way to Ill. during a wagon train trip in late 1870's. My ggrandfather was b. in 1875, so it was after that. This is the first thing I have seen which actually gives her dob. There was also a Leroy J. Yelton b. apx 1821-I wondered if he was this Jefferson. His parents were John W. and Judith, but don't know if this is the correct one, but it does say Susan was a widow in 1853. Who knows? Thank you for this info-I will dig out my Eldridge papers and look again. Thank you so much for helping. Roslyn ==== YELTON Mailing List ==== YELTON-L searchable and threaded archives: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=YELTON http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/YELTON ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

thanks Cheryl. I am going to look around at the Indiana connection for Susan-maybe I can come up with something. thanks again. Roslyn -----