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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 E., 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 110 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.