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Sources consulted for the biography of:John W. Poindexter (ca. 1848–1889)
Biographical Information
- United States Census Schedules, Louisa Co., 1850 (age two), 1860 (age fourteen), 1870 (age twenty-two), 1880 (age thirty-five), Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
- Louisa Co. Register of Free People of Color, 1863–65, no. 635 (with physical description and "in the fifteenth year of his age" on Sept. 14, 1863).
- Freedmen's Record 4 (1868): 44.
- Louisa Co. Deed Book 1:334–335 (with middle name).
- Land Tax Returns, Louisa Co., 1888, Auditor of Public Accounts, Record Group 48, Library of Virginia.
- Louisa County Will Book, 19:330–331.
- Death Register, Louisa Co. (age thirty-five on Feb. 16, 1889), Bureau of Vital Statistics, Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Health, Record Group 36, Library of Virginia.
- Biography in Luther Porter Jackson, Negro Office-Holders in Virginia, 1865–1895 (1945), 34 (with death in 1903).
Political Career
- Secretary of the Commonwealth, Election Records, 1776–1941, No. 10 (1875), No. 14 (1879), State Government Records Collection, Record Group 13, Library of Virginia.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1875–1876 sess.), 49, 296–297.
- Journal of the House of Delegates of the State of Virginia (1876–1877 sess.), 249–250, 424–426.
- Official Proceedings of the National Republican Conventions of 1868, 1872, 1876 and 1880 (1903), 353, 668.
Newspapers
- Richmond Daily Dispatch, Oct. 4, 1875; Nov. 3, 1875; Nov. 4, 1875; Feb. 9, 1876; Apr. 15, 1876; Aug. 18, 1876; May 2, 1877; May 3, 1877; May 4, 1877; May 5, 1877; May 7, 1877; Sept. 19, 1877; Oct. 16, 1879; Nov. 6, 1879.
- Staunton Vindicator, June 24, 1881.
- Richmond Dispatch, Aug. 30, 1887.
Obituary
- Richmond Dispatch, Feb. 17, 1889.
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