Max C. Poindexter, a wealthy oil and real estate businessman from South Haven, Michigan, was discovered dead in his Chicago Lexington Hotel room on July 22, 1920, with a gunshot wound to the head. His parents, Edwin Waddy Poindexter and Mary Caroline McQuerry, along with his wife, Effie Dora Chamberlin, rejected the coroner’s jury ruling that it was a suicide.
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His cousin was U.S. Senator Miles Poindexter of Washington.
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https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-news-scimitar-max-c-poindexter/196843164/
Max was having financial difficulties and had a $50,000 life insurance policy on himself, according to his brother.
Max and his wife Effie had the following children.
Myles Conrad Poindexter 1912-1994
Louis Joesph Poindexter 1913-1974
Robert Edward Poindexter 1914-1924
Marydella Poindexter 1919-1995
Effie had a tough life, marrying three times, with Max as her second husband. She was the daughter of Jonathan Chamberlin and his wife, Emma Elizabeth McLaughlin. In the Nez Perce uprising of 1877, she narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Indians. Her father and older sister Mattie were killed, but she and her mother survived. Her tongue was nearly severed when she was grabbed by the feet, her head smashed against a rock and left for dead. The blow caused her to bite off the tip of her tongue. Later, her Uncle Will Chamberlin held her while a doctor removed the dangling piece, as recounted by Will’s daughter Elaine.
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