The Honorable John Alexander Yeager (1882-1955) was the last child of Lucinda Dodd Yeager, who died soon after his birth, and the seventh child of Daniel Wayne Yeager. John supplemented his public school education with a 3-year course with the American Correspondence School of Law, completing the study in 1909. He passed the Mississippi Bar and began his law practice in 1910, a year of great distress and change for him: His father died on 01 January, 1910, his wife Pearl Roberson Yeager died five months later and their infant daughter Temple Estelle a month after that. Their older three children, Leona Pearl, Audie Eran, and Mattie Dexter were sent to live with John's younger half-sister Narcissa "Cissie" Elizabeth Yeager Yates until John could again properly care for them himself. He remarried on 11 June 1911 to Corean Anderson, and had four more children, Bernice Arista, Mildred Lillian, John Alexander, Jr., and Charles Stevenson. In the 1910-1911 time frame, John was elected mayor of Seminary, Covington County, Mississippi, and served on the board of the Bank of Seminary. John and Corean soon moved to Lumberton, where he practiced law and became the publisher-editor of the "Headblock" newspaper. In 1915 he was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served for 16 years. He was also a steward and lay leader in the Methodist Church and a member of the Masons.

Lineage: John Alexander Yeager7 (Daniel Wayne Yeager6, Lewis Yager5, John Yager4, Michael Yager3, Adam Yager2, Nicholas Jager1). Nicholas and son Adam were immigrants from Germany and part of the 1717 Second Germanna Colony of Virginia.
--The above Submitted by grandniece Elizabeth Yates Johnson

Below, about his sons, from Barbara V:
The Booster, Purvis, Miss., Friday, Dec. 11, 1942
Lumberton Service Men
Corp. John A. Yeager, Jr., from Bardley Field, at Windsor Locks, Conn.
Stevenson Yeager, Radio Man 3rd Class at Norfolk, VA