Here is information from his marriage record which shows birth and parents:
Lordon Avery
Gender: Male
Race: Colored (Black)
Age: 29
Event Type: Marriage Registration (Marriage)
Birth Date: 16 Sep 1908
Birth Place: Birmingham, Alabama
Marriage Date: 26 Feb 1937
Marriage Place: Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States
Residence Place: Louisville, Kentucky
Father: John Avery
Mother: Ida Gray
Spouse: Lillian Guyton
"Indiana Marriages, 1811-2007," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXGC-BXB : 8 December 2017), Lordon Avery and Lillian Guyton, 26 Feb 1937; citing Clark, Indiana, United States, Marriage Registration, Indiana Commission on Public Records, Indianapolis; FHL microfilm 004476472.
Link to 1940 census: "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V11G-P31 : 15 November 2019), Lardon Avery, Ward 23, Indianapolis, Center Township, Marion, Indiana, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 96-20, sheet 6B, line 62, family 125, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 1132.
And from the Social Security death index:
| Lordon Avery |
| Social Security Number: |
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| Birth Date: |
16 Sep 1909 |
| Issue Year: |
Before 1951 |
| Issue State: |
Indiana |
| Last Residence: |
60615, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
| Last Benefit: |
60615, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA |
| Death Date: |
Jul 1986
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