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Title: The Gentry family in America, 1676 to 1909 : including notes on the following families related to the Gentrys : Claiborne, Harris, Hawkins, Robinson, Smith, Wyatt, Sharp, Fulkerson, Butler, Bush, Blythe, Pabody, Noble, Haggard, and Tindall
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Gentry, Richard, b. 1846
Subjects: Gentry, Nicholas, fl. 1709 Gentry family
Publisher: New York : Grafton Press
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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of Jackson Co., Mo. (61) Joseph V, Richard IV, David III, Nicholas II, Nicholas I. Bom in Kentucky Sept. 20, 1831; died Oct. 26, 1863. He wasa Confederate soldier. His family is still living about Inde-pendence, Mo. His wife was Mary Henley. Children : 1. Alonzo. 2. Joseph, 3. Overton H. (172). 4. Reuben. 132. WILLIAM H. GENTRY. of Lexington, Ky. (61) Joseph V, Richard IV, David III, Nicholas II, Nicholas 1. Born in Kentucky Oct. ii, 1840; died May —, 1908; marriedMary L. Coleman of Fayette Co., Ky., Jan 21, 1869. He wasnamed for General Harrison, and from his boyhood was called General ; was for a short time in the Southern Army, underColonel Nappa of General Longstreets command. He lived afew miles northeast of Lexington, on the pike road, at GentryPlace, a lovely home. His wife, Mamie Honey, as he calledher, a refined and cultured woman, proficient in music and art,and a fine hostess, presides over and is the moving spirit of, Gentry Place. Mr. Gentry was a successful farmer and
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NICHOLAS GENTRY AND HIS DESCENDANTS IQQ planter, a fine judge of stock, and raised some fine trottinghorses. He was very fond of fox hunting and usually kept a finepack of hounds. Several times in recent years when he hasgone South in the winter time for his health, he has taken alongwith him some saddle horses and his pack of hounds, and amusedhimself and friends chasing wild-cat, deer and fox on the Ala-bama coast. He was the prime mover in the Gentry Family Reunion,held at Crab Orchard Springs, Kentucky, in August, 1898,and was its first President. Children : 1. David Coleman, born in Fayette Co., Ky., Dec. 17, 1871; married Letitia May Lucas, Oct. 21, 1897. 2. Laurance, born Nov. 18, 1878; is engaged in the bank- ing business in Lexington, Ky. 133. OVERTON H. GENTRY, of Independence, Mo. (61) Joseph V, Richard IV, David III, Nicholas II, Nicholas I. Born in Madison Co., Ky,, June 16, 1836; died in the springof 1908; married Elizabeth Henley, September, 1859, in JacksonCo., Mo. She

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