George Poindexter

Birth Date

c1808

Death Date

1887

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkinsville, Kentucky, carriage maker and asylum manager. Kentucky native. Married to Berry Poindexter. Father of William H. Poindexter, James G. Poindexter, and George W. Poindexter. Carriage maker in Hopkinsville in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Hopkinsville in 1860. Board member and manager of the Western Lunatic Asylum in 1865.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 34.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Hopkinsville, p. 25.

Find A Grave, "George Poindexter (1808-1887)," Memorial #89558925, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89558925/george-poindexter (accessed May 2, 2017).
KYR-0001-007-0345.

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