Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904, p 527 [McCracken] PHILIP D. YEISER, deceased, was a native of Lancaster, Kentucky, where he was born in November, 1817, and was reared in Danville, where in early life he followed contracting and building, and also operated a foundry. He then prepared for the profession of law, and practiced first at Eddyville, Kentucky. In 1861 he located in Paducah, and practiced law until his death, which occurred in 1886. He was commonwealth attorney one term and about a year prior to his death was elected city judge of Paducah, an office he held when he died. In politics he was a Republican, while fraternally he was a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. In religious belief he lived and died a Presbyterian. Judge Yeiser was several times married, his first wife, Ellen Deerham, a native of Boyle county, Kentucky, and she became the mother of David A. Yeiser, now mayor of Paducah. Yeiser Deerham = Lyon-KY Boyle-KY http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/mccracken/yeiser.pd.txt