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| | |birth_date=June 5, 1928 | | |birth_date=June 5, 1928 |
| | |birth_place=Sikes, Winn Parish, [[Louisiana]], USA | | |birth_place=Sikes, Winn Parish, [[Louisiana]], USA |
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| | '''Henry Lee Yelverton, Jr.''' (June 5, 1928 – July 31, 2009), was a district and appeals court [[judge]] for thirty-two years,, based in [[Lake Charles]] in Calcasieu Parish in far southwestern [[Louisiana]]. | | '''Henry Lee Yelverton, Jr.''' (June 5, 1928 – July 31, 2009), was a district and appeals court [[judge]] for thirty-two years,, based in [[Lake Charles]] in Calcasieu Parish in far southwestern [[Louisiana]]. |
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| | Yelverton was born to Henry Lee Yelverton, Sr. (1904–1928), and the former Iona Mae Gates (1911–1992)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=August 27, 2009}}</ref> near [[rural]] Sikes in Winn Parish in north central Louisiana. His father died at the age of twenty-four, some two months before Yelverton’s birth. After 1930, Mrs. Yelverton married J. K. Roberts, and the couple had two children, Shirley Kay Roberts and Glynn David Roberts, Henry’s half-siblings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brwilson/morgan/b4460.htm |title=Nineteenth Generation |publisher=freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com |accessdate=August 27, 2009 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> | | Yelverton was born to Henry Lee Yelverton, Sr. (1904–1928), and the former Iona Mae Gates (1911–1992)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=August 27, 2009}}</ref> near [[rural]] Sikes in Winn Parish in north central Louisiana. His father died at the age of twenty-four, some two months before Yelverton’s birth. After 1930, Mrs. Yelverton married J. K. Roberts, and the couple had two children, Shirley Kay Roberts and Glynn David Roberts, Henry’s half-siblings.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brwilson/morgan/b4460.htm |title=Nineteenth Generation |publisher=freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com |accessdate=August 27, 2009 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> |
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