Gladys Yelvington
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Gladys E. Yelvington (Parsons) (November 29, 1891 – February 11, 1957)[1] was an American ragtime composer and friend of May Aufderheide[2] and Julia Lee Niebergall. She was born in Elwood, Indiana, to Asa and Alice Yelvington.[1]
She composed and performed as a silent-movie pianist in Indianapolis and Alexandria.[3]
She returned to Elwood in 1910, and performed regularly at the Princess Theatre.[4] In 1912 she married Leo G. Parsons (1887–1958), a cigar salesman, in Elwood in 1912.[5][6] This ended her professional music career.[7] They moved to Gary, Indiana, in 1917, where she died in 1957.[1]
