Individual Details

Charles Lafayette Poindexter

(3 Aug 1906 - 30 Sep 1949)



1940 Census. Eagle Twp, Potter, Polk Co, AR, Hh 91
Charles L. Poindexter, 33, b. OK, Lived in rural Caddo Co, OK in 1935, Constructions, Streets, WPA
Flora A., wife, 23, b. Kansas, lived in rural Ellis Co, OK in 1935
Ineta A., dau, 4, b. OK
Bobbie L., dau, 2, b. OK
Arlene T., dau, 5 months, b. AR

Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ, 2 Oct 1949, Sunday, p.2
Charles L. Poindexter
Funeral services for Charles Lafayette Poindexter, 43-year-old Yuma carpenter, who died Friday in a Phoenix hospital, will be conducted at 3:30 pm Tuesday from Memory Chapel.... Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park.
Mr. Poindexter was born August 10, 1906 in Ardmore, Okla. He had resided in Yuma six years.
Survivors are his wife, Flora, four daughters, Alice, Bobbie Lou, Arline and Gwendolyn; two sons Albert and Elroy, all of Yuma; his mother, Mrs. Prince Edward Fletcher, Phoenix; two brothers, Ralph Poindexter of New Mexico and Frank Poindexter, Phoenix; and three sisters, Mrs. Tom Borders, Potter, Ark., Mrs. H. A. Cowan, Phoenix, and Mrs. August West, Omaha, Neb.

Events

Birth3 Aug 1906Ardmore, Carter County, Oklahoma
Marriage4 Feb 1925Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma - Frona Ellen Marcum
DivorceBef 1930Frona Ellen Marcum
Marriage30 Sep 1933Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma - Bertha Flora Alice Bartley
Death30 Sep 1949Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona

Families

SpouseFrona Ellen Marcum (1901 - 1989)
SpouseBertha Flora Alice Bartley (1916 - 2001)
ChildInita Alice Poindexter (1936 - 2006)
ChildBobbie Lou Poindexter (1938 - 2017)
ChildArlene Grace Poindexter (1939 - 2000)
ChildElroy Harold Dean Poindexter (1945 - 1996)
ChildLiving
ChildLiving
FatherThomas Jefferson Poindexter (1876 - 1939)
MotherPrince Edward Thompson (1883 - 1967)
SiblingRosia Opel Poindexter (1902 - 1983)