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Philip Barbour Poindexter (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and notary public)

b. 1830-06-20 d. 1863-06-22

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and notary public. Virginia native. Married to Maria Eloise Gwathmey Poindexter in Jefferson County, Kentucky, on October 4, 1854. Father of Mary C. Poindexter and Bettie B. Poindexter. Graduated from the University of Louisville Law School in Louisville on February 27, 1851. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Louisville in 1860. Notary public in Jefferson County.

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White

Bibliography

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 123.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 5, p. 272B.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Jefferson County Marriages, Film 000819601.

Catalogue of the Officer and Students of the Law Department of the University of Louisville, Session of 1859-60, (Louisville, KY: Hull & Brother, Printers, 1860), pg. 11.

"Philip Barbour Poindexter (1830-1863)," Find A Grave, Memorial 37334368, accessed November 2, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/37334368.

KYR-0001-017-0279.

Citation

Poindexter, Philip Barbour. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32212097 (November 12, 2026).

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