Individual Details

Arch married (1) Permelia Nevins on 11 Jan 1862. After her death he married Maria Emmaline Thomas Watson on 24 Aug 1881. The children were all born in Clay Co TN or Monroe Co KY. Arch went to TX to join his father, but eventually returned to Clay Co. He served in Co C, 9th (Young's) TX Infantry as a Private, CSA. It is said that he moved to Howe TX [Grayson Co] with the first wife. She died and he returned to TN leaving the children with relatives in Texas. He remarried and raised another family in TN; the two families were never united.

As Arch Thomas some of his children applied for Enrollment in the Five Civilized Tribes; however they applied as Mississippi Choctaw and were rejected. An entire group of descendants of both Arch & Benjamin and their half siblings applied. Both Benjamin & Archibald or their descendants, gave their mother as Mary P. Poindexter, not Sarah Gist. They claimed their Indian relationship through Rebecca Flynn, their grandmother. Not only was she not found on any of the Choctaw roles [she certainly was not even Indian] but they could not prove she had ever lived in Mississippi or Alabama [and she never had].

1870 Jackson Co TN
Arch T. Poindexter, age 33, b. TN. Amelia age 33, b. TN. Samuel T. age 7, b. KY. Erastus age 4, b. KY, James M. age 2, b. TN


1910 Cumberland Co KY, Speers Precinct, Sheet 9b, Hh 167
Arch T. Poindexter, age 73, married twice, last time for 20 yrs., place of birth "unknown"
Mariah, wife, age 55, married once for 20 yrs., born KY
George T., son, 22, b. TN. Bula E., dau, 20, b. TN. Carrie M., dau, 17, b. KY.
Ralph R., son, 15, b. KY. Leslie F., son 14, b. KY. Lee B. [Bedford Lee], age 8, b. KY

1920 Clay Co, TN, Sheet 8A, p.80, 4th Dist north of the Obey River, Hh 127
Archie T. Poindexter, age 82, b. TN, father & mother b. KY [so was Archie]
Mariah E., wife, age 62, b. TN
Leslie F., son, age 21. Bedford L., son, age 19.

1930 Clay Co TN, Sheet 3A, p.151, 4th Dist north of the Obey River, Hh 46
Ray Poindexter, age 34, married at age 23, b. KY, father b. TN, mother b. KY [probably his parents were born opposite states]
Maud, wife, age 26, married at 15. Fred, son, age 9. Sulie, dau, 8. Clayton, son, age 4 and some months [unreadable], Raymond, son, age 2 and 4/12.
Archie T., father, age 93, Age at first marriage, 21.
Mariah E., mother, age 74, married first at age 24.

Archie and Marie are buried Rock Springs Cemetery, Celina, Clay Co, TN. She was born 16 Oct 1857, died 7 May 1936.

These are two sons of the second family:
William Richardson Poindexter, b. 25 Jun 1882, d. 29 Dec 1963, was a son of Archibald Thomas and Maria Watson. He married Myrtie Watson and they lived all their lives in Monroe Co KY. He is the Bill Poindexter who was interviewed for the oral history book, THE SAGA OF COE RIDGE.

George Thomas Poindexter, b. 1 Mar 1888, d. 20 Jan 1968, married Nancy Katherine Kerr. She was b. 21 May 1886, d. 12 May 1958. They were the grandparents of Nealon Agee who updates the POINDEXTER FAMILY HISTORY, first written by Dorothy Knox Brown.

Birth	23 Mar 1837
Death	29 Dec 1932	Clay County, Tennessee

Father	William Micajah "Cage" Poindexter (1811 - 1870)
Mother	Sarah Gist ( - )
Sibling	Benjamin Speer Poindexter (1835 - 1899)