Individual Details
Martha Milner "Patty" Poindexter
(18 Dec 1768 - 1853)
This is date of bond to George Pettit; marriage took place on the 30th according to family notes. Francis Poindexter, Bondsman.
1850 Census. Polk Co, TN, Hh 537
Thomas Davis, 61, b. VA
Elizabeth, 52, b. NC as were the children
Wm. G. 16
John F., 14
Hanson P., 11
Patty M. Pettitt, 83, b. VA
Martha and George are buried Mountain Springs Missionary Baptist Cemetery [also known as the Pettitt Cemetery] in Polk Co, TN
Events
| Birth | 18 Dec 1768 | Goochland County, Virginia |  | ||
| Baptism | 27 Mar 1769 | Saint James Northam Parish, Goochland County, Virginia | | ||
| Marriage | 23 Nov 1785 | Surry County, North Carolina - George Pettitt | | ||
| Death | 1853 | Polk County, Tennessee | |
Families
| Spouse | George Pettitt (1760 - 1845) |
| Child | Benjamin Pettitt (1786 - 1815) |
| Child | Thomas Pettitt (1788 - 1790) |
| Child | Living |
| Child | William Madison Pettitt (1792 - ) |
| Child | Zachariah M. Pettitt (1795 - 1878) |
| Child | Francis Poindexter Pettitt (1797 - 1852) |
| Child | Elizabeth Donahoo Pettitt (1798 - 1867) |
| Child | Dorothea A. Pettitt (1801 - 1878) |
| Child | Martha Milner Pettitt (1808 - 1888) |
| Child | Nancy Pettitt (1810 - ) |
| Child | James Pettitt (1813 - ) |
| Father | [Capt] THOMAS POINDEXTER (1733 - 1807) |
| Mother | ELIZABETH PLEDGE (1740 - 1816) |
| Sibling | Ann Radford Poindexter (1760 - 1835) |
| Sibling | Francis Anderson Poindexter (1764 - 1802) |
| Sibling | William Pledge "Wag" Poindexter (1766 - 1844) |
| Sibling | Thomas Wentworth Pledge Poindexter (1771 - 1838) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Carolina Pledge Poindexter (1772 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary Wentworth "Polly" Poindexter (1775 - 1863) |
| Sibling | John George W. "Stumpy" "Jack" Poindexter (1778 - 1863) |
| Sibling | ARCHIBALD PLEDGE POINDEXTER (1780 - 1842) |
| Sibling | Sarah Redford "Sally" Poindexter (1784 - 1862) |
| Sibling | Robert Alexander Poindexter (1788 - 1842) |
| Sibling | Dorothy "Dolly" Poindexter (1790 - ) |
Endnotes
1. Mary Jane Comstock, Compiler; Comstock-Haggard and Allied Families; (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973), p.116.
2. Edited by W. Mac Jones, The Douglas Register. Detailed record of Births, Marriages, Deaths.....as kept by the Rev. William Douglas, from 1750 to 1797. [Note: Douglas went to Goochland in 1750 but did not start the Registter until 1756.] An Index of Goochland Wills. Notes on the French-Huguenot Refugees who lived in Manakin-Town. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore Reprinted 1985; Original, 1928. c1966) Available online at Ancestry.com by subscription., Births & Baptisms. p.275.
3. Mary Jane Comstock, Compiler; Comstock-Haggard and Allied Families; (Chicago: Adams Press, 1973), p.116.
4. Mary Courtright Pettitt and Robert J. Pettitt, Thomas M. Pettitt's Family (Self Published. Highland CA: c1996. Out of print but available on LDS Microfilm #1750818, Item 13.), The Poindexter Family, p.B-70.
5. Email.
6. Messages posted to Poindexter on Genforum.
7. Messages posted to Poindexter on Genforum.