George Washington Pointer was born on September 16, 1839, the first child of James and Nancy (Branson) Pointer. He was born near Linn Misouri on his parent's farm. He attended the common schools until he was 19 years old.
George Washington Pointer Abt 1915
Margaret Elizabeth Lamb was born on October 22, 1842 near Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee. She is the daughter of Jeramiah Lamb and Nancy Ellen David.
Margaret Elizabeth Lamb ABT 1915
The 1850 Census for Crawford Township Osage County finds Margaret 8 years old and living with her mother and sisters and brothers. Only two pages away are the James Pointer family and George is 9 years old. They were neighbors and they probably met when growing up.
On March 17, 1859 they married in Osage County Missouri and their marriage, performed by Joshua Cox, Justice of the Peace, was recorded on Page 298 of Marriage Book A Osage County Missouri.
On March 17, 1859 they married in Osage County Missouri and their marriage, performed by Joshua Cox, Justice of the Peace, was recorded on Page 298 of Marriage Book A Osage County Missouri.
George Pointer Margaret Lamb Marriage Record lower right
In this year George also built a house for his new bride near the College Hill Baptist Church in Osage County, Missouri. The farm was 110 acres of which 50 acres were under cultivation. They also raised stock. It was in this house they would live and raise 13 children over the next 60 years. The house was still standing in poor repair in 1985.
Pointer Homestead Osage County MO
ABT 1980
ABT 1980
George served in the Missouri 28th Reg't Enrolled Missouri Militia during the Civil War. This was a local Osage County group formed to help combat the rebel forces that were active in the Gasconade River area. He was ordered to active service twice August 24, 1862 to October 26, 1862 and May,1 1863 to November 9, 1864. Most of the activity was in the area between Saint Aubert and Jefferson City Mo. Their outfit call to action on September 25, 1864 was to repel Price's invasion of Missouri. Skirmishes on Osage River took place on October 5-6. He was relieved from active service October 31, 1864.
However, rebel forces did reach as far as the G.W Pointer farm while George was away. Margaret jumped on a horse and with her daughter galloped off as the forces shot at her. She escaped to a relatives home. It is said that there are still rebel bullets embedded in the logs of the house.
On December 6, 1866 Governor Thomas C. Fletcher "reposing especial trust and confidence in the integrity, patriotism and valor of G.W. Washington" commissioned him 1st Lieutenant Company D, 9th battalion of the Missouri Militia
George Washington Pointer Commission
George and Margaret had their first child, Nancy Catherine on
Christmas Day 1859. Twelve more would follow over the next thirty years.
Franz Siegel Pointer
Elizabeth W. Pointer
Errena T. Pointer
Flora Isabelle Pointer
Charles Monroe Pointer
Louise Roberta Pointer
Mary Margaret Pointer
Alonzo Critis Pointer
Nora S. Pointer
Lorenzo Bonaparte Pointer
Martha Levada Pointer
Anthony Clinton Pointer
Their births are recorded in the Pointer Family
Bible.
Pointer Family Bible
The 1920 Census find George and Margaret living on the farm alone. He is 80 and she is 79. They have lived on the farm for 60 years with no electricity and only a pump for water and raised 13 children.
Margaret died in March 1920 and George lived an addition five years till July of 1925, He was 85 and died of heart failure. They was buried at the Bigger cemetery on property owned by Sara Bacon . In 1985 the cemetery was in poor shape and George's stone was missing, Margaret's stone was still present at that time.
Margaret Lamb Pointer Stone
Bigger Cemeter
Osage County Missouri
Bigger Cemeter
Osage County Missouri
George and Margaret were prominent people in Osage county and the following Biographical sketch appeared in Godspeed History of Osage county published in 1889.
George W. Pointer is a son of James and Nancy (Branson) Pointer,
of whose family of eleven children six are now living. James
Pointer was born in Franklin County, Mo., in 1815, and is one of the
pioneer settlers of Osage County, in which county he is still living.
His wife, Nancy Pointer, who is a native of Tennessee, was born in
1817. The paternal grandfather of our subject was George Pointer,
who immigrated from Kentucky to Missouri while the' Indians claimed possession of the interior counties. He died in Osage County, Mo,about 1825.
George W. Pointer was born in Osage County in 1839, and was reared on a farm, attending the common schools of the county
until about nineteen years of age. March 17, 1859, he married
Margaret Lamb, who was born near Nashville, Tenn., October 22, 1842, and is a daughter of Jeremiah and Nancy Lamb, natives respectively of Mississippi and Virginia, who settled in Osage County, Mo., in 1843, where the father died in 1844 and the mother in 1884.
The following children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Pointer:
Catherine, who married James Jett, and died in 1884, leaving two children; Franz Siegel, Bettie, wife of James L. Vaughn; Errena T., Flora Isabelle, Charles M., Louisa R., Mary M., James C., Nora S.,
Lorenzo B., Martha L. and Antonia C.
In 1860 Mr. Pointer removed to his present home in Jefferson Township, Osage County, twelve miles southeast of Linn, where he owns a farm of 11 0 acres, fifty -eight acres of which are under cultivation. He is engaged in farming and stock-raising, and has been very successful at his chosen occupation.
He was a member of the Missouri State Militia during the late war,
and December 6, 1866, he was commissioned by Gov. Fletcher first
lieutenant of Company D, Ninth Battalion.
Mrs. Pointer is a member of the Baptist Church.
Pointer Homestead ABT 1980
