Surname Search: "Gentry"

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The goal of these surname search blog posts is to help you connect with other researchers interested in these surnames, and to find more information about your ancestors. Use the resources below as a stepping point to find credible sources, and remember: not every “Jane Doe” is your “Jane Doe”! If you have information related to the Gentry surname, or would like to reach out to fellow Gentry genealogy researchers, leave a comment. Please do not share any information about those still living to respect privacy.

Gentry

Related surnames or alternate spellings: Gentrie

Notable ancestors include:

• Curt Gentry, author

• General Richard Gentry, military officer

• Troy Gentry, country music singer of Montgomery Gentry

• Viola Gentry, aviator

• “Gentry” patriots in DAR

• “Gentry” patriots in SAR

Genealogy websites

• “Descendants of Nicholas Gentry I” family-history.com/gentry

• “Descendants of Samuel Gentry” by Joe Payne (Freepages)

• “George & Elizabeth Gentry of Hanover” by John Reed, 2004. klein-shiflett.com

• “Gentry History: Gentry family history” gentryhistory.com (Wayback Machine link)

• “Gentry Family of New Kent County, Virginia” (Rootsweb)

• “First Generation - Gentry” (Rootsweb)

• “Nicholas Gentry post” Forney Clark Genealogy

• “Preacher William G. Gentry” McLemore Strong Genealogy

• “The Gentry Family of Dickson County, Tennessee” Joseph Neal Luther - tngenweb.org

Message boards & mailing lists

• “Gentry” on Ancestry.com Message Boards

• “Gentry” on Genealogy.com GenForum Message Boards -

• “Gentry Family - Mundon” on Rootschat

• “Gentry” results on Rootsweb Mailing List (Wayback Machine - Archive It)

Social media groups & societies

• “Gentry Family” Facebook group, 98 members

• “Gentry Family Tree” Facebook group

• “The Gentry Extended Family” Facebook group, 138 members.

Photographs:

• “Frank Gentry, Sunnyside” Brigham Young University

• “Gentry family, Pomeroy, Washington, 1939.” Washington Rural Heritage

• “Gentry Family Reunion” State Historical Society of Missouri

• “J.W. Gentry” Brigham Young University

• “Mary Todd Gentry” State Historical Society of Missouri

• “Nina Gentry and Family” Park County, Wyoming.

• “North Todd Gentry” State Historical Society of Missouri

• “North Todd Gentry and his daughter, Mary Todd Gentry” State Historical Society of Missouri

• “The Gentry Family outside of the George T. Reynolds House” The Portal to Texas History

Website clippings, news articles, blog posts (no paywalls)

• “Descendants of Samuel Gentry, Sr” (pdf link)

• Phillips, Joseph Vernelle “The Story of the Families, Part 1: The Americans., Chapter 3: Nicholas Gentry - English Poor Boy, Indian Fighter and Planter” (pdf link)

• Russell, Judy G. “Elijah Gentry & Wilmoth Killen Gentry” Noshoba County MSGenWeb

Artifacts

• “Gentry Family Gazette and Genealogy” October 1982 Issue. Miami-Dade public Library System.

• “Gentry Family Gazette and Genealogy” multiple issues in microfiche at FamilySearch

• Gentry Family news clipping, Sept 16, 1909, Gordon County, GA. Digital Library of Georgia

• Memorial plaque of Private First Class Jerry Wayne Gentry, United States Army - HMdb.org

• News clipping of the Gentry Reunion, 1899 “By Hundreds the Gentrys Flock” The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Kentucky. Sun Aug 20, 1899, page 19. As seen on Newspapers.com

• Receipt from David Gentry to Richmond Trading and Manufacturing Company, UMass Amherst

Correspondence and letters

• Correspondence between Mrs John Trotwood Moore and Miss Susie Gentry, Tennessee Virtual Archive

• Correspondence between S.L. Gentry and Senator Burnet R. Maybank, 1954 - LCDL

• Letter from Brian Gentry to Betsy Nagelson, 1986. UMass Amherst

• Letter from Oma Gentry to Helen Keller, 1950 - Helen Keller Archive

• Letter from Robert B. Gentry to Mrs Thelma Toole - Tulane University Digital Library

• Letter from W.D. Gentry to R. Lee Kempner, 1938. The Portal to Texas History

Fingind Aids (may not have online material)

• Ada Cowan Gentry Correspondence, 1858-189? The University of Tennessee

• Gentry collection of genealogical research files 1675-1957, (pdf link), The New York Public Library

• Gentry Family Papers (C4026) - (pdf link), The State Historical Society of Missouri (pdf link)

• Gentry, Robert Turner, 1865-1950 (MSS 713) - Western Kentucky University

• Pleasant Tilman Gentry Diary, 1876-1896 (C4416) - The State Historical Society of Missouri

• Robert Gentry Papers Online Archive of California

Property Records (no paid databases)

• Land Deed. Gentry Family (26 October 1868). The University of Mississippi

• Land Deed. Gentry Family (2 November 1890) The University of Mississippi

• Land Deed. Gentry Family (12 October 1872) The University of Mississippi

Homes & historical markers

• “Brady P. Gentry” marker, Smith County, Texas

• “Gentry Home Site” Indiana

• “George Washington Gentry (1808 - 1883)” marker, Comanche County, Texas

• “Home of Richard Gentry, the Kentucky pioneer. Built 1804” Library of Congress

• “James Gentry, sr” site and “The James Gentry Home and Store” Indiana

• “Mary Lee Payne Gentry” marker, St. Louis County, Missouri

• “William Reynolds Gentry home” Alleghany County, NC

Oral histories

• Arthur Gentry Collection, Library of Congress

• Carson R. Gentry, Sr, Collection, Library of Congress

• Harold L. Gentry Collection, Library of Congress

• Hunter Otis Gentry Collection, Library of Congress

• Ircil N. Gentry Collection, Library of Congress

• James Howard Gentry Collection, Library of Congress

• Keith S. Gentry Collection, Library of Congress

• Norman Dale Gentry Collection, Library of Congress

• Oris Gentry Collection, (audio only) Library of Congress

• Robert A. Gentry Collection, Library of Congress

• Vestle Gentry Collection, Library of Congress

Books (Online & In Print)

• Edwards, Mary Reid, and Lillian Gentry Barnum. “The Gentry family, 1821 - 1982: The Gentry History from Essex England to the Western United States” (Full view on FamilySearch with sign-in)

• Floyd, Albert R. “Genealogical Records for the Gentry, Jeffers, Kuchs, and Parker Relationships” 1945 (Full view on FamilySearch with sign-in)

• Gentry, Elwood M. “Gentry” Richmond, VA; 1922 (Full view on FamilySearch with sign-in)

• Gentry, H. “The Gentry Family Tree” 1968 (Full view on FamilySearch with sign-in)

• Gentry, Richard. “The Gentry Family in America, 1676 to 1909…” New York, The Grafton Press, 1909. (Full view on Internet Archive)

• Gentry, Thomas Benton. “Souvenir of General Richard Gentry, A Missouri Pioneer and Soldier” Kansas City, 1899. (Full view on Google Books)

• Gentry, Williard M. “The Family of Nicholas Gentry, Colonial Immigrant, Through Four Generations” 2022. (Full view on ACPL Genealogy Center)

• Page, Mrs. Orville. “Gentry Family Genealogy” (Full view on FamilySearch with sign-in)

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