Individual Details

Henry married, 1836, to Mrs. Emily Meer Magee Nixon, widow of Dr. Samuel Nixon of Shreveport, LA. Henry served with the U.S. Army during the Seminole and Cherokee Wars and was with the expedition that moved the Cherokees to Oklahoma, the Trail of Tears, in 1838. He graduated from the Pennsylvania College of Medicine.

His daughter Ida Clingman Humphrey applied to the Dawes Commission as a Cherokee descendant. This seems most odd given that her father aided in the removal. The Poindexters all were pretty much agreed that none of their family had ever lived as Indians, and had always lived as whites. The claims only arose when money or land was involved.

Birth	4 Apr 1813	Huntsville, Yadkin County, North Carolina
Death	7 Jun 1906

Father	Peter Clingman (1780 - 1845)
Mother	Anne Patillo Poindexter (1787 - 1819)
Sibling	Dr. Alexander Brandon Clingman (1806 - 1881)
Sibling	Francis Poindexter "Frank" Clingman (1811 - 1871)