Posted on: Llano County Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Tx/Llano/385 Surname: POINTER, BLEVINS, ISENHOWER ------------------------- Re your message regarding the Blevins of Llano Co. TX It would appear that the Mary Ann "Polly" Pointer who married Barnett Isenhower and later Squire Blevins was most likely the daughter of John Pointer and his first wife Evelina Capehart. There are only two Pointer families that I am aware of in the Montgomery Co. AR area in that timeframe. In 1840 John Pointer is found in Pulaski Co. MO 30-40, 1 F 30-40, 1 f 10-15, 2m 5-10, 1 f 5-10, 2 m <5, 1f <5. He married Evelina Capehart in Gasconade Co. MO on 8 April 1827. On the 1840 Census, they are located near the Frederick Capeharts, and a Butler family. John's brother George Pointer, married Ruth Butler, also in Gasconade Co. MO. Both George and John Pointer moved to Montgomery Co. AR. George was killed in 1850 in AR. His widow Ruth Pointer is not far from John Pointer as shown in the 1850 census. George's daughter Mary is in residence with Ruth on this census. Mary was born in 1832, according to the census and thus could not be the Mary Pointer who married Barnett Isenhower. John Pointer is shown as follows on the 1850 Census in Montgomery Co. Both his first and second wives have died. 1850 Montgomery Co. AR Family #10/10 Pointer, John 44 M KY Farmer John 18 M MO Frederick 15 M MO Mila 13 F MO George 11 M MO Eliza T. 9 F MO Sam'l 6 M MO James M. 2 M AR [Son of his second wife] Bartlett,Henry 6 M AR [Stepson] The 1840 Census had shown two daughters who are missing from this record: one born between 1825-1830, another born between 1830-1835. Mary Ann (Polly) would fit the profile of the oldest of these two daughters. John's daughter Eliza Jane married Lorenzo Dow Meek; his son, Frederick Marion Pointer, married Diana Jane Blevins, and his son, George, married Elizabeth Meek. These families all moved to Texas. The parents of John Pointer were William Pointer and his wife Sarah. William left a will in 1820 in Gasconade Co. MO naming his children. William was the son of George Pointer Sr. whose wife's name is not proven and he most likely had several wives. He is known to have served in frontier militias, owned land on the Green River in KY, his children married in various counties in KY before the family moved to MO c. 1810. Several members of this family signed in 1812, an early petition from the Gasconade Co. area which later became MO. Those listed in the petition are believed to be sons/grandsons of George Pointer Sr., but not all of them have been proven by documentation.