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Yerger, Yerger, Yerger, Yerger, Yerger, Yerger and Yerger
In the mid-1800s, seven of the ten Yerger brothers from Lebanon, Tennessee, were practising attorneys in the state of Tennessee and Mississippi (there was an eighth brother who was not an attorney).
They were all the sons of Edwin Michael Yerger, born in Reading, PA about 1780, but who moved to Tennessee in about 1813 and included:
* Orville "Norval" Yerger who moved to Mississippi to practise law in about 1845 but moved back to Tennessee;
* Edwin M. Yerger, a well-known criminal law lawyer;
* George S. Yerger, the eldest, a prominent member of the bar in Nashville and who served as Attorney General for the State of Tennessee;
* J. S. Yerger moved to, and later served as a circuit judge in the County of Bolivar, Mississippi;
* William Yerger, the youngest, also moved to Mississippi and like his older brother, J. S., was also elevated to the bench. William lived in Jackson, Mississippi.
Noble spends 22-years in jail without trial
Leonara Christine (1621-1698) was the daughter of the Queen of Denmark but that did not stop kings in England, Sweden and Denmark from holding her a prisoner for almost 22 years.
In 1636, she was married to Corfits Ulfeldt for political reasons but in the result, they fell in love. But she and her husband had to flee Denmark to save their lives in 1651, often wandering through Europe in disguise. They managed to ransom themselves out of a first prison term from 1660-1661 by selling off most of their properties. Then the Danes formally charged Ulfeldt with treason and Christina promptly sailed to England hoping to collect on money owed to her husband by Charles II.
The English king arrested her and turned her over to the Danes. Ulfeldt escaped Danish custody with their children but not so Christina, who never saw her husband again, languishing for 22 years without trial in solitary confinement and very difficult conditions Denmark's infamous Blue Tower of Copenhagen Castle prison.
She was finally freed in May of 1685 and published her prison memoirs (Jammersminde).
Source: www.duhaime.org
