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POINDEXTER POINDEXTER POINDEXTER DESCENDANTS DESCENDANTS DESCENDANTS ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION OCTOBER OCTOBER 2007 2007 NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER Are you a Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, or Perry Mason fan? Have you just been waiting for that special case you could tackle with those detective skills you have been honing all these years? Are you ready to take on the mantel of Lilly Rush and crack this real life Poindexter “Cold Case”? Will then, you are just the person the PDA Database Committee has been searching for. Following are some of the critical personal family facts we have already collected: Edwin Waddy POINDEXTER (Josephus -Joseph Poindexter , James L. Poindexter , Joseph Poindexter , John Poindexter , Thomas Poindexter , George Poindexter , George Poindexter , Thomas Poingdestre , Edouard Poingdestre , Jean (John) Poindestre , George , John (Johan) , Johan , John , John , John , Jean ) was born on 15 November 1851 in Madison County, Indiana. He died in December 1893 in Mercer County, Missouri. He was buried in Dec 1893 in Hamilton Cemetery, Mercer County, Missouri. Hamilton Cemetery is located on Route D, approximately three miles south of the Highway 136 intersection east of Princeton. Edwin married Mary Caroline MCQUERRY. Mary was born on 15 October 1857 in Indiana. She died on 19 June 1942 in Princeton, Mercer County, Missouri. Mary remarried following Edwin’s death to a Mr. Thomas. In the 1900 census Mary is residing in Lineville Town, Grand River Township, Wayne County, Iowa with Joseph M., Della F., and Edgar R. Poindexter, her three youngest children. Mary is listed as divorced. Then she married a third time to John W. Crow sometime after 15 April 1910 and prior to 1920. They are listed together in the 1920 census living in St Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. In the 1930 census she is listed as a widow living in the household of her youngest son Robert Edgar Poindexter in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. The following children came from World Family Tree connections listed online. Details were borne out through the original newspaper story printed above, verification from censuses as they are presented in this article, and original lineage information and family history that was provided by Myles Connard POINDEXTER when he joined the Poindexter Descendants Association. We have been unable to locate an 1880 census or other records to prove some of the details. There is some confusion because the only 1880 census we have that appears to possibly be Edwin and Mary Poindexter contradicts the facts as they are presented in the World Family Tree and elsewhere. We have Edwin W. Poindexter, age 8, listed in the 1860 census of Adams Township, Madison County, Indiana with his brother Joseph’s family, mother and other siblings. In the 1870 census, Edwin, age 18, is working as a farm laborer and living with John Sloan in Monroe Township, Madison County, Indiana. Then in the 1880 census we have an Edward (could possibly be Edwin – writing hard to read.), age 28, occupation Painter, living with his wife, Mary, age 20, and two children, son Frank 3 and daughter Mary 1 in Madison Township, Mercer County, Missouri. Also living in this township is “Culley McQuerry and his wife P. J.”, Mary Caroline McQuerry’s parents. We need assistance in getting the facts straightened out and the details corrected. Calley Dixon POINDEXTER was born 27 August 1877. Calley served in the Spanish American War in 1898. When he returned home to Princeton, Mercer County, Missouri after the war, he was suffering from malaria. According to the 1900 census for Mary P. Thomas, Calley’s mother, taken in Lineville Town, Grand River Township, Wayne County, Iowa, she had given birth to five children and all five were living at that time. Apparently Calley married Maude W. circa 1906 because she is living with and listed as the daughter-in-law of Mary C. Poindexter, widow in the 1910 census of St. Joseph, Buchanan, Missouri. Maude is shown as having been married for 3 years. Mary repeats in this census she has had five children and five are living. Myles told us that Calley and Max formed a road building partnership. One of the roads they constructed was through the Rocky Mountains near Greeley, Colorado. 20 of 20
POINDEXTER POINDEXTER POINDEXTER DESCENDANTS DESCENDANTS DESCENDANTS ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION OCTOBER OCTOBER 2007 2007 NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER NEWSLETTER Max Connard POINDEXTER was born circa 1878 in St. Joseph, Buchanan County, Missouri. Max died in July 1920 in the Lexington Hotel in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. If we can locate the inquest report and death certificate, we should be able to get more specific dates. The Lexington Hotel had opened in 1892 and had been designed by Clinton Warren, the architect of the famed Congress Hotel. The brick and terra cotta building had been hurriedly opened to serve the masses of visitors who came to Chicago for the 1893 World’s Fair. These were boom years on the city’s south side and the fine hotel attracted scores of wealthy and famous visitors, including President Benjamin Harrison, who once addressed an audience from the balcony. It was in July 1928, eight years after Max’s death, when Al Capone moved into the Lexington Hotel and made it his residence and business headquarters. Max Connard POINDEXTER married Effie Dora CHAMBERLIN circa 1910. She was born 11 October 1876 in Oregon. Before she was three years old, she had experienced horrors beyond imagination. (See the PDA Database article in this issue for more details.) Effie died in 1928 in South Haven, Van Buren County, Michigan. Max and Effie are buried side by side in the Lake View City Cemetery in South Haven City, South Haven Township, Van Buren County, Michigan. Buried close by are Effie’s oldest son from her first marriage, Charles Arthur SMITH Poindexter b. 24 February 1902 d. 1972, Max and Effie’s son Myles Connard POINDEXTER b. 31 July 1912 in Moscow, Latah County, Idaho d. 25 April 1994 in South Haven, Van Buren County, Michigan, and Max and Effie’s youngest son, Robert Edwin POINDEXTER b. 1915 in Washington, d. 1924. A plot is waiting for Max and Effie’s youngest child and only daughter Mary Della POINDEXTER, b. circa August 1918 who married Henry Kuebler. Hazel DUSENBERY Poindexter, Myles’ wife, has a plot reserved for her next to her husband. Myles had an obituary run in the Herald-Palladium, Benton Harbor at the time of his death. If you have access to this paper in a local library in your area and could provide us a copy of his obituary, the PDA Database Committee would greatly appreciate that addition to our archives Max and Effie had one more child, Louis Joseph POINDEXTER, b. 18 October 1913 in Richland, Benton County, Washington, d. 25 December 1974 in Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan, buried in Udel Cemetery, Willis, Washtenaw County, Michigan. In 1936, he married Helen Bailey. Marcus John SMITH Poindexter, Effie’s other son from her first marriage, was born 13 May 1903 in Washington or possibly Idaho. He died on 16 April 1971 in South Haven, Van Buren County, Michigan. He took in his POINDEXTER half siblings when their mother died in 1928. He had married Clifford MEARS circa 1925. She helped Marcus rear his orphaned siblings. Joseph Marion POINDEXTER was born 3 February 1881 in Missouri. He died April 1969. “Joe”, as he was called, was a barber. He moved to Iowa with his mother, step-father and younger siblings. Joe married Lena L. THOMPSON, an Iowa native. Their children were: Roberta E. b. circa 1908; Stacy L. b. 27 October 1911 d. June 1987 Racine County, Wisconsin; Robert J. b. 3 February 1913 d. 1 January 1989 in Racine County, Wisconsin; Keith Homer b. 6 November 1917 d. 12 September 1996 in Polk County, Iowa; Landis I. b. circa 1919, and Dean C. b. circa December 1924. They were all born in Iowa. Joe had moved to Polk City, Polk County Iowa by 1918 and remained living in that town for the rest of his life. He led an extremely different life style from his brothers Calley or Max who lived in many different parts of the United States and traveled a great deal on business. 21 of 21
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