William G Yerger (died November 6, 1899) was a lawyer in Greenville, Mississippi[1] who served in the Mississippi Senate. He was a Democrat.
He served first as a soldier and then as an officer in the Confederate Army.[2] He served in Company D, 28th regiment Mississippi Cavalry and was a 2nd Lieutenant at the end of the American Civil War.[3]
He served in the Mississippi Senate from 1886 to 1890, representing Washington County, Mississippi, the 15th district.[4] He also was a key member of the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention.[2]
He died November 6, 1899 aged 59 after being ill for several months.[2][5]
References
edit- ^ Cisco, Jay Guy (1909). Historic Sumner County, Tennessee: With Genealogies of the Bledsoe, Gage and Douglass Families, and Genealogical Notes of Other Sumner County Families. Higginson Book Company. ISBN 9780832835001.
- ^ a b c "Obituary: Col. William G Yerger". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 7 November 1899. p. 5. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "Twenty-Five Years Ago (Company D. 28th regiment Mississippi Cavalry)". The Weekly Democrat-Times. 25 December 1886. p. 1. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "Mississippi Legislature - 1886". Weekly Commercial Herald. 20 November 1885. p. 6. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
- ^ "Tribute to a Mississippian". Greene County Herald. 17 November 1899. p. 1. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
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