When Oscar Lafayette Yelverton was born on 18 September 1854, in Wayne, North Carolina, United States, his father, Robert Sauls Yelverton, was 29 and his mother, Sarah Ann Minerva Bogue, was 19. He married Glendora Sauls on 26 April 1877, in Eureka, Wayne, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Saulston, Wayne, North Carolina, United States in 1880 and Nahunta Township, Wayne, North Carolina, United States in 1900. He died on 18 April 1909, in Wayne, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 54, and was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Fremont, Wayne, North Carolina, United States.