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Christopher C. Poindexter, judge of the Tipton County Court, who resides at Mason, in Tipton County, was born in Fayette County, Tenn., May 4, 1846, and is the son of Christopher C. and Elizabeth H. (Seymour) Poindexter, natives of Virginia. Our subject was reared on the farm and received his education principally at Somerville, Tenn. In 1862 he went into the Confederate service in the Seventh Tennessee Regiment as a private, and served until the close of the war, when he returned home and engaged in agricultural pursuits and remained on the farm until 1873, when he moved to Mason, in Tipton County, and turned his attention to mercantile pursuits and was thus engaged at that place until 1884. He was elected mayor of Mason and served one term, and was re-elected to the office in 1886. He was then elected judge of the Tipton County Court, and is still holding the office. He has 780 acres of valuable land in Fayette County, well improved, and a part of the same in a high state of cultivation. May 4, 1871, he was married to Annie Harris, daughter of Howell W. and Sarah E. Harris, of Fayette County. The subject’s wife died May 3, 1873, and he was again married in November, 1873, to Ella Shelton, daughter of E. O. and Martha Shelton, of Tipton County. To this union was born one daughter, Blanch. The subject’s wife died November, 1875, and October 3, 1876, he was again married, to Lula E. Tucker, daughter of James and Laura A. Tucker, of Fayette County. To this union are born four children—one daughter and three sons—namely: Leura, Gordon, Duke and Millard. Our subject and lady are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he is politically a Democrat and a prominent member of the K. of H.