Gabriel Poindexter

Gabriel Poindexter

Infobox Politician
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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successor = Levi Sparks
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birth_date = September 26, 1827
birth_place = Memphis, Indiana
death_date = September 11, 1890
death_place = Jeffersonville, Indiana
party = Republican
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religion = Christian


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Gabriel Poindexter (September 26, 1827 - September 11, 1890) was born in Memphis, 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 of Jeffersonville, Indiana. Gabriel is also the father of Harry 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.]

ee also

*List of mayors of Jeffersonville, Indiana

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