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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.​

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.​

 

Yelverton was subsequently reared on a small [[cotton]] farm in West Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana, where his stepfather was a sharecropper]until 1938, when he purchased forty acres of woodland on Macon Ridge near Epps. There the couple built a house and farmed.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=henry-yelverton&pid=130787075|title=Judge Henry Yelverton|publisher=’’The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=August 28, 2009}}</ref>​

Yelverton was subsequently reared on a small [[cotton]] farm in West Carroll Parish in northeastern Louisiana, where his stepfather was a sharecropper]until 1938, when he purchased forty acres of woodland on Macon Ridge near Epps. There the couple built a house and farmed.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theadvocate/obituary.aspx?n=henry-yelverton&pid=130787075|title=Judge Henry Yelverton|publisher=’’The Baton Rouge Advocate''|accessdate=August 28, 2009}}</ref>​

 

Yelverton’s high school years coincided with [[World War II]]. A teacher encouraged him to study [[Latin]]. He became so fascinated with the subject – [[Julius Caesar]], [[Cicero]], [[Tacitus]], [[Livy]], and [[Virgil]] — that in 1949 he received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in Latin from [[Louisiana State University]] at [[Baton Rouge]], as well as a commission in the [[United States Air Force]] Reserve.<ref name=obit/> He procured a tuition scholarship at LSU and was given a [[minimum wage]] job at the LSU Poultry Farm, where he resided during his college years. From 1949 to 1951, Yelverton taught Latin at the defunct Sewanee Military Academy in Sewanee, [[Tennessee]], where he also excelled as a [[boxing]] coach. In 1951, he obtained a Judah Touro Fellowship in classical languages at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]], from which he received a [[Master of Arts]] in Latin. He then taught Latin at St. Martin’s Episcopal School inMetairie in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an New Orleans.<ref name=obit/>​

Yelverton’s high school years coincided with [[World War II]]. A teacher encouraged him to study [[Latin]]. He became so fascinated with the subject – [[Julius Caesar]], [[Cicero]], [[Tacitus]], [[Livy]], and [[Virgil]] — that in 1949 he received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in Latin from [[Louisiana State University]] at [[Baton Rouge]], as well as a commission in the [[United States Air Force]] Reserve.<ref name=obit/> He procured a tuition scholarship at LSU and was given a [[minimum wage]] job at the LSU Poultry Farm, where he resided during his college years. From 1949 to 1951, Yelverton taught Latin at the defunct Sewanee Military Academy in Sewanee, [[Tennessee]], where he also excelled as a [[boxing]] coach. In 1951, he obtained a Judah Touro Fellowship in classical languages at [[Tulane University]] in [[New Orleans]], from which he received a [[Master of Arts]] in Latin. He then taught Latin at St. Martin’s Episcopal School inMetairie in Jefferson Parish in [[suburb]]an New Orleans.<ref name=obit/>​

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