Contributed By: Suzanne Yelton Shephard

-Falmouth Outlook/June 23, 1937 edition
Mrs. C. M. Yelton

Mrs. Florence Yelton, 73, widow of the late C. M. Yelton, died at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Clarence Allender, near Nicholasville, Jessamine
Co., Ky. June 17, 1937 following an extended illness.
Her body was brought to the Thomas & Parramore funeral home in Falmouth
Thursday and lay in state until the services at the Falmouth Methodist
Episcal(sp) Church Saturday afternoon which were conducted by the Rev. E. L. Griffy.
Interment took place in the Riverside Cemetery.
Pall bearers were Kinney Field, Ambrose Field, George Field, Menzie
Montgomery, Ernest Montgomery and Arthur Yelton.
Mrs. Yelton was born in this county Jan. 25, 1864, the daughter of the
late Harrison and Lucinda Field. She was united in marriage to C. M. Yelton
of Concord, Pendleton county, Ky June 12, 1883. He preceded her in death
one year and eight months. To this union three children were born, one
passing on in childhood. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Clarence
Allender, and a son, Horace Yelton of Owen county. Four grandchildren and
one great-grandchild also survive.
Mrs. Yelton resided in Falmouth until her husband's death, and here she
was loved by her neighbors, relatives and friends. She was a kindly, good
woman, wife and mother, and loved her family and friends. During her last
days her needs were happily and carefully met by her daughter and her
husband, with whom she resided, and she slept away in peace.