The following information was provided by F-A-G contributor Roy Frederick #47654299.

Since 1906 A. J. Poynor has been a prominent and influential resident of Joplin, Missouri, where he has manifested a deep and sincere interest in community affairs and where he is one of the best known ore buyers in the mining field. He was born in Christian county, Missouri, on the 7th of June, 1862, a son of John and Camelia Adelia (Morris) Poynor the former of whom was a native of Tennessee and the latter of whom was born and reared in Georgia. The father came to Missouri in the early days and settled in Christian county, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until 1894 and where he died at the venerable age of seventy-three years. The mother, who long survived her honored husband, was summoned to the life eternal in 1893, at the age of sixty-eight years.
The fifth in order of birth in a family of nine children, A. J. POYNOR was educated in the public schools of Christian county and after leaving school he entered the employ of the Frisco Railroad Company, remaining with that concern for a period of two years, in 1886 he established his home at Aurora, Missouri, where he engaged in business on his own account, devoting his attention to mining and the buying of ore. In 1900 he removed to Galena, Kansan, but in the following year he went to Central City, remaining there for four years and coming, in 1905, to Joplin where he has since resided and where he now conducts a prosperous and profitable business enterprise. He is one of the best known ore buyers In the mining fields of this vicinity and in addition to that work he is one of the partners in the Roe Mine, which is situated some three miles from Joplin. The Roe Mine is a very successful and paying property and all the owners therein have realized good money on their investment.
At Aurora, in the year 1889, was solemnized the marriage of Mr. Poynor to Miss Dosia Melton, a daughter of Dr. J. A. Melton, a prominent physician and surgeon at Aurora, Missouri. To this union has been born one son, Hugh Bell whose birth occurred on the 1st of July, 1890.
Politically Mr. Poynor accords a stalwart allegiance to the principles and policies promulgated by the Republican party, and while he bat never shown aught of desire for political preferment of any description he is ever on the alert and enthusiastically in sympathy with all measures and enterprises projected for the good of the general welfare. Mr. Poynor is a man of fine mental caliber and broad human sympathy and he is everywhere respected and admired by reason of his uprightness, his affability and his true gentlemanly courtesy. As a citizen his interests are thoroughly identified with those of the west and at all times he is ready to lend his aid and co-operation to any movement calculated to benefit this section of the country or to advance its wonderful development.
[A History of Jasper County and its people, by Joel Thomas Livingston, Public Domain]