HISTORY OF FAYETTE COUNTY KENTUCKY, by Robert Peter, ed. by William H. 
Perrin, O. L. Baskin Co., Chicago, 1882.  Reprinted by Southern 
Historical Press, Easley, SC, 1979.
Page 770
WILLIAM A. POINDEXTER, farmer, P. O., Chilesburg, is descended from the 
vigorous and valiant stock of Old Virginia, from which State his 
grandparents removed to Kentucky and settled in Jessamine County, when it 
was still covered with the primeval forest.
The father of our subject, William P. Poindexter, was born in 1792, when 
quite young began to learn the trade of a jeweler in Lexington, and having 
finished his apprenticeship, continued the trade for many years, and was 
so successful therein that he was enabled to retire about 1859 to the 
rural delights of a farm.
He was, at one time, in the City Council, and died in the year 1869.
His wife, Sarah Higbee, bore him twelve children, of whom seven are 
living: William A.' Joseph; Mary, wife of G. A. Bowyer; Julia, married 
to D. H. Coulter; Ellie, wife of Dr. W. Baker; Sallie, Mrs. H. Payne, and 
Laura widow of E. H. Parrish; William A., born in Fayette County in the 
year 1818, has during his life, been an active and prosperous business man.
For fifteen years he followed the trade of his father in Lexington:  then 
was engaged for seven years in the drug business at Des Moines, Iowa, after 
which he returned to Lexington, embarked in the queensware trade and 
remained in it for six years.
Mr. Poindexter is now living a retired life on a farm and enjoying the ample 
fruits of his long and successful commercial career.
Having never married, he resides with his widowed sister.
Poindexter Higbee Bowyer Coulter Baker Payne Parrish
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Jessamine-KY VA Polk-IA

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