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William G Yerger (died November 6, 1899) was a lawyer in Greenville, Mississippi 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. He served in Company D, 28th regiment Mississippi Cavalry and was a 2nd Lieutenant at the end of the American Civil War.

He served in the Mississippi Senate from 1886 to 1890, representing Washington County, Mississippi, the 15th district. He also was a key member of the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention.

He died November 6, 1899 aged 59 after being ill for several months.

References

1. 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.
2. ^ "Obituary: Col. William G Yerger". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 7 November 1899. p. 5. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
3. "Twenty-Five Years Ago (Company D. 28th regiment Mississippi Cavalry)". The Weekly Democrat-Times. 25 December 1886. p. 1. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
4. "Mississippi Legislature - 1886". Weekly Commercial Herald. 20 November 1885. p. 6. Retrieved 2 March 2024.
5. "Tribute to a Mississippian". Greene County Herald. 17 November 1899. p. 1. Retrieved 2 March 2024.

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