Early Life and Career
Poindexter was born in Montgomery County, Kentucky, to David and Elizabeth (Watts) Poindexter. He married twice, first to Melissa, who died young, and then to Martha K. Hayes in 1857. The 1860 census lists him as a prosperous merchant in Scott County, Kentucky.
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