Thank you, Jerry, for the census information. Since Mary's age is stated consistently in both 1850 and 1860, it's probably accurate, which means that Mary cannot be Harriet Tull's child. Harriet died in 1825 and Mary wasn't born until 1828. I was curious enough to look at the original of the 1850 census at ancestry.com, and it says that Mary (Yelton) Holmes was born in Ohio. Maybe that's why we haven't found Phillip's second wife in Kentucky. At this point, I think possibly that John Phillip Yelton had no children by Harriet Tull, or at least none that survived infancy. Cheryl