- Gabriel Poindexter
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name = Gabriel Poindextor
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office = Mayor of Jeffersonville
term_start =January 1 1867
term_end =December 31 1869
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birth_date =September 26 ,1827
birth_place =Memphis, Indiana
death_date =September 11 ,1890
death_place =Jeffersonville, Indiana
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footnotes =Gabriel Poindexter (
September 26 ,1827 -September 11 ,1890 ) was born inMemphis, Indiana [http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nh/merrimack/history/families/willey/willey1.txt rootsweb.com/families/willey] ] [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~katy/poindex/b9148.html#P9158 rootsweb.com/poindexter/seventh_generation] ] and he would serve in the Civil War, and serve as mayor ofJeffersonville, Indiana . Gabriel is also the father ofHarry Poindexter , who would also become mayor of Jeffersonville.Biography
Gabriel would marry his wife Mary Willey of Jeffersonville in the winter of 1850 and he would make a living as a merchant and fruit farmer until the start of the Civil War. In 1861 Gabriel enlisted in the 38th Indiana Infantry Regiment and would serve as a Captain of company H. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=zpwKAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA157&lpg=RA1-PA157&dq=gabriel+poindexter+civil+war&source=web&ots=GE2kEOwbQY&sig=EIjzqEnIcgXaxbRR7cOX38Onl5k#PRA1-PA156,M1 Indiana Magazine of History by Indiana Historical Society, page 156.] ] Following the war the Poindexter family would move into Jeffersonville. Gabriel would become the mayor of Jeffersonville and serve from 1867 to 1869. [ [http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/indiana/indbioref-125.htm Indiana Biography Ref. Page ] ] [Kleber, John E. "Encyclopedia of Louisville".(University Press of Kentucky). pg.443.]
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List of mayors of Jeffersonville, Indiana References
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