Marcus E. Poynter

Birth Date

1836

Death Date

1889-04

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Woodford County, Kentucky, physician. Kentucky native. Married to Kate Poynter. Resident of Bath County, Kentucky, in 1850. Graduate of the University of the City of New York School of Medicine in 1860. Assistant surgeon for the 24th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) from May 27, 1862, to February 7, 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, District 2.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Midway, p. 11.
“Catalogue of the University of the City of New York March, 1860” (New York: Hosford & Co., Stationers, 1860), 16.
Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 370.
Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 164.
Find A Grave, "Dr M. E. Poynter (1836-1889)," Memorial #97963977, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97963977# (accessed July 12, 2018).

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