found: Smithsonian American Art Museum/National Portrait Gallery Library Vertical file(from 1991 article from the New art examiner: Leroy Almon, Sr.; b. 1938, Tallapoosa, Ga.)
found: Museum of American folk art encyclopedia of twentieth-century American folk art and artists, 1990:p. 29 (Leroy Almon, Sr.; carves bas-reliefs based on events and themes from the black American experience; b. Nov. 18, 1938, Tallapoosa, Ga.)
found: Getty Union list of artist names, Feb. 5, 2001(Almon, Lee, Sr.; American wood-carver; b. 1938, Tallapoosa, Ga.)
found: Social Security Death Index via Ancestry.com, April 11, 2013:(Leroy Almon ; last residence: Tallapoosa, Haralson, Georgia ; b. 18 Nov 1938 ; d. 19 Apr 1997)
found: Outsider art sourcebook, 2016:page 51 (Leroy Almon 1938-1997)