Old Poindexter

 Our location here in northern Kentucky is suiting our present need to hunker down and stay home. It also has the best wifi connection we’ve had in quite some time. Because it is actually not very far from where Karen’s maternal grandmother was born, we’re taking the opportunity to do some online genealogical research on that family line. GG-Grandfather Thomas fathered his third family and lived his final years here. Because he was a member of the Mormon Church in the 1840’s and many of his descendants are Mormons today, there’s a wealth of information on familysearch.org, a website sponsored by that church about his ancestry, his early life, and his life among the Mormons. However after Joseph Smith was killed and many church members fled from Nauvoo and prepared to migrate west, he decided to not follow but rather move back to the Ohio River valley. His wife chose otherwise and traveled with the Mormons. Biographies of him published by his Mormon descendants give only sketchy details of his life after he and Charity parted ways. In the last couple of days we’ve discovered some more of his personal history. For instance, in 1850 he and his seventeen year old son were living with a Poindexter family and most likely employed as coopers for a distillery producing Kentucky bourbon. Wonder what the Mormons would have to say about that!