Introduction
Within four generations of descent from Samuel-II Gentry, one can count at least twenty Gentrys with Allen as a part of their name. Most of these can be traced easily from father to son, but there are a half-dozen that have been a source of confusion and controversy for many years. In fact, a form of sub-culture of genealogists has grown up around this handful of Allens, all of whose families originated in South Carolina, who then went on to Georgia, Tennessee and Missouri. In this article, the author proposes a pattern of relationships that he believes best answers the questions concerning their line of descent from Samuel. It is to be understood that much of the material presented has little or no documentary foundation, rather it is based upon logical deductions gained from the scanty evidence on hand.

Methodology
The evidence used for this study consists mostly of census records. Where they exist, these are valuable, but in early Georgia and Tennessee, for example, census records have been lost, and even when such records still exist, the families we are studying, in several cases were not included in the census. The census evidence has been supplemented by fragmentary marriage records, tax lists, military service records, court records and such. Beyond that, the author has had to depend on reason and judgment.

A chart of Allen Gentrys is shown below. It is in condensed form, including only those lines of descent from Samuel-II Gentry that contained an Allen Gentry. It has been restricted to a maximum of four generations after Samuel. As a means of positively identifying which Allen is which within this confusing mass, we are using the "Henry" enumeration system. This assigns one digit for each generation of descent, indicating the order of birth for that individual in his family. Similar to the Soundex system, we have prefixed the letter "G" to these numbers to indicate "Gentry". To explain further, we can take David-III as an example. He is the oldest of the children of Samuel (who being the third child of Nicholas-I Gentry, is numbered "G3"), so is assigned the number "G31". All of his children are assigned numbers by adding another digit depending upon their relative order. Thus David Jr. becomes "G312" since he was the second child of David Sr. Each new generation builds in this way upon the last. In those cases where there are ten or more children, the Henry system uses alphabetical characters in the manner of the hexadecimal system used in mathematics and computer sciences. Ten is represented by "A", eleven becomes "B", and so on.

As indicated above, most of the Allens in the chart pose no problem or relatively minor problems for genealogists. We will concentrate on just five problem Allens shown in bold type in the chart below and indicated further as "Allen-A" to "Allen-E". They will be considered in that order, which coincides with the order of alphanumeric sorting by their Henry numbers.

Chart of Allen Gentry Descendants of Samuel-II Gentry

Successive Generations						Location (County/District) in 1850 or at time of death
David (G31)
	David (G312)
		Joel (G3121)		>	Allen (G31214)	d. Laurens, SC ?
		John (G3122)		>	Allen-D (G31221)	d. Hall, GA?
	John (G313)
		John (G3131)		>	Allen-E (G31313)	Bledsoe, TN (1850)
		Allen-B (G3133)				d. McMinn, TN?
	[Allen] Cain (G315)					d. Edgefield, SC
		Cain [Allen] (G3153)				d. Montgomery, AL?
	Simon (G316)
		Allen (G3165)				d. Tishmingo, MS
Nicholas (G32)
	Allen (G321)					d. Wilkes, NC
		Jonathan (G3211)		>	Allen (G32117)	Wilkes, NC (1850)
	Arthur (G322)
		Allen (G3228)				Pickens, AL (1850)
Allen (G34)						d. Caswell, NC?
	Shadrack (G341)			>	Allen (G3418)	Person, NC
	Meshack (G342)			>	Allen D (G3422)	Monroe, TN
	Abednego (G345)			>	Allen (G3456)	Nodaway, MO
Samuel (G3B)
	Allen-A (G3B1)					d. Roane, TN?
		Allen-C (G3B13)				d. Taney, MO
			Allen (G3B133)			Taney, MO
	Jeremiah (G3B3)			>	Allen (G3B34)	Spartanburg, SC (1850)?
	Samuel (G3B4)			>	Allen (G3B41)	Warwick, IN

1. Allen-A Gentry (G3B1)
The only fourth-generation Gentry to be included in this study, this Allen appears in only three census records, namely 1790 and 1800 Spartanburg District, South Carolina, and the 1840 census for Roane County, Tennessee. His relationship to his father, Samuel-III can be positively identified by a deed in 1801 in Surry County, North Carolina, where he and his three brothers sold land inherited from their recently deceased father. Allen's wife and family are found in the 1810 Spartanburg census listed under "Sally Gentry" as the head of the household, but Allen, two sons, and a daughter are missing. We can presume that the daughter, being of marriageable age, had left home to be married. The absence of the two sons who were in their teens, and the absence of their father can be hypothesized as a case of Allen preceding his wife and younger children to a prospective new home in Georgia or Tennessee. It can be seen from the chart that one of these missing sons is proposed to be Allen-C Gentry who will be discussed further below.

The next appearance of Allen is in the Roane County, Tennessee census of 1840. In this, he is listed as having been born between 1760 and 1770. If this age is at all accurate, there is no other Allen that could possibly fit that description. The rest of the household listed with him fit the proposition they are the widow and children of a deceased son of Allen, whom we suggest was the David Gentry who was taxed for 260 acres in McMinn County in 1830 along with an Allen whom we propose to be Allen-C.

An Owing Gentry who was married to Martha Brazeale in 1828 in Roane County, and who bought land there in 1832 could possibly have been one of the younger sons of Allen-A. The family fragment living with Allen-A in 1840 could not have been a part of Owing's family since the ages of the children involved do not fit with Owing's date of marriage. If Owing was indeed a son of Allen-A, it might explain why the latter was present in Roane County in 1840 when his other son, Allen-C (and hypothetically also David) had been living in McMinn County. We know nothing more about Owing. A chart of the census records is given below, showing the year of birth range for each individual. The county or district of census enumeration is for South Carolina if not otherwise noted.

Name		1790	1800	1810	- - -	1840
(G3B1) Allen-A Gentry	M	Spartanburg bef. 1774	Spartanburg 1755-1774	Spartanburg (missing)		Roane, TN 1760-1770
sp. Sally	F	present	1755-1774	1765-1784
- daughter	F	present	1784-1790	---
- [David?]   -- spouse   -- daughter   -- son   -- daughter   -- son	M F F M F M		1790-1800	---		-- 1790-1800 1810-1820 1820-1825 1825-1830 1835-1840
- Allen-C	M		1790-1800			(see below)
- daughter	F		1790-1800	1794-1800
- daughter	F			1794-1800
- [Owing?]	M			1800-1810
- son	M			1800-1810

2. Allen-B Gentry (G3133)
The parentage of this Allen is entirely a matter of judgment. Based upon his age, and there being no other logical source for his parents aside from South Carolina, Allen's father must have been one of the sons of David-III Gentry. By comparing the census records for the families of these sons, by far the most likely scenario is for Allen-B Gentry's father being David-III's son John. A son matching Allen's age is included in John's family in the census records of 1790 (Edgefield District, South Carolina) and 1800 (Abbeville District, South Carolina). Allen is missing from the 1810 census, but we find in the military records for the War of 1812, that an Allen Gentry served in the militia of Roane County, Tennessee from October 1813 to January 1814 (when he would have been in his early twenties). We find further that an Allen Gentry appeared in court in 1820 in Roane county to receive a bounty for killing a wolf. By 1830, we propose that Allen had moved to McMinn County, Tennessee, which touches Roane County at one point, and that his family was included in the 1830 census under the listing "Allen Gentry Sr". His whereabouts thereafter have been lost. One of his sons was probably the John Gentry who was married to Elizabeth Hays in Rhea County, Tennessee, in 1825 (see discussion of Allen-E Gentry below).

[Note added 6/5/07. For further speculations as to this family see "Journal of Gentry Genealogy", Issue C, June 2005, in which a proposed widow, Cheruby Gentry, living in Paulding County, Georgia, in 1850 is discussed.]

A William Gentry appears in the Roane County records during this time. In 1820 he served jury duty, in 1821 he was on the militia rolls, and in a court case dated 1831, he was cited as having left the state. This William fits the pattern of being the second son of John that was listed in his family in 1790 and 1800 but missing in 1810. The census listings for Allen, William and their father John is given below.

Name		1790	1800	1810	1820	1830
(G313) John Gentry	M	Edgefield bef. 1774	Abbeville bef.1775	Edgefield bef.1765	---
- spouse	F	present	bef.1755	bef.1765	---
(3131) - John Jr	M	(GA?)	(GA?)	(see Allen-E below)
- Elizabeth	F	present	---
(G3133) - Allen-B   -- spouse   -- [John?]   -- son   -- son   -- daughter   -- son   -- son   -- daughter   -- son   -- daughter	M F M M M F M M F M F	1774-1790	1774-1784	(in Roane, TN?)	---	McMinn, TN 1780-1790 1780-1790 1800-1810 1800-1810 1810-1815 1810-1815 1815-1820 1815-1820 1815-1820 1820-1825 1825-1830
- [William?]	M	1774-1790	1774-1784	(in Roane, TN?)	---	---
- daughter - daughter - daughter - daughter	F F F F	present present present present	--- 1774-1784 1784-1790 1784-1790	--- 1784-1794 1784-1794	--- ---
- Wyatt	M		1790-1800	1784-1794	Elbert, GA	Campbell, GA

3. Allen-C Gentry (G3B3)
We have introduced this Allen with his father Allen-A above. The identification of the present Allen is based upon his age, his absence from South Carolina records at an appropriate time and the lack of alternative explanations for possible Allens among the other South Carolina Gentrys. In addition, we have the coincidence of there being two sons of Allen-A unaccounted for at the same time as we have an Allen Gentry and a David Gentry showing up in Rhea County, Tennessee, together. The assignment of this Allen as being the elusive Allen Gentry who moved to Taney County, Missouri, is reinforced by the fact that the Missouri Gentry named two of his sons Allen and David.

The Tennessee records that are proposed as belonging to this Allen include tax records in McMinn County, Tennessee in which Allen was taxed for a head tax in 1825, 1828, 1830 and 1831. A David Gentry was also taxed in 1830, his tax including that for 260 acres of land. David disappears from the records after 1830 and is not included in the census for that year, so we can only speculate that he died from accident or disease. The census record for Allen is shown below. He is said to have died in Taney County, Missouri in 1848. His two sons Allen III and David are included in the 1850 Taney County census, and Allen III is also in the 1860 Stone County, Missouri census. The census records for Allen-C are shown below. There are records of this family that suggest Allen and his wife Margaret were married in 1813, but that appears improbable from the census evidence, some four to five years later seems more likely.

Name		1800	- - -	1830	1840	1850
(G3B12) Allen-C Gentry	M	(see above) 1790-1800		McMinn, TN 1800-1810	Taney, MO 1790-1800	---
sp. Margaret	F			1800-1810	1800-1810	---
- son	M			1815-1820	---	---
- Margaret	F			1815-1820	---	---
- Allen-III   -- sp. Sarah	M F			1820-1825	1825-1830	Taney, MO age 23 (1827) age 22 (1828) + 4 children
- David   -- sp. Elizabeth	M F			1825-1830	1825-1830	Taney, MO age 22 (1828) age 21 (1829) + 2 children
- Elizabeth	F				1830-1835	---

5. Allen-D Gentry (G31221)
The Allen Gentry of whom we speak now has the least known about him of any of the Allens. Time and again, his appearance in the Hall County, Georgia, census of 1820 is suggested as representing an earlier stage in the life of one of the other Allens who show up in later census records. This is especially true of the Allen just described above who moved on the Missouri. The author's conclusion, on the other hand, is that he is a dead-end, and that he must have died there before 1830. One thing is almost certain, that he was part of family of Gentrys who moved together to Hall County very shortly before 1820. Allen and his presumed brother, John, are the only Gentrys that show up in the 1820 census, but we have records in Hall County for the following marriages:

	1823	Jan 30	Roland Gentry married Nancy Mattocks
	1823	Apr 6	Serena Gentry married William Hammond
	1824	Mar 28	Moses Gentry married Milly Hammond
	1825	Dec 11	Rachel Gentry married Thomas Lewis
	1830	Nov 3	Rollie [Raleigh] Gentry married Elsie Gravett (Undoubtedly a different individual than Roland above)

In addition there is a "poor student" school report for 1830 and 1832 in which William Gentry (born 1817) was among the students educated in Hall County. Most of these Hall County Gentrys can be traced on to other locations in later years. Roland was in the 1840 Pulaski County, Arkansas census. Raleigh was in the 1840 Paulding County, Georgia census and had moved to Henderson County, Texas by 1850. Rachel Lewis had moved to Miller County, Arkansas by 1832. Serena Williams was in the 1850 Chatooga County, Georgia, census. William was in Floyd County, Georgia in 1840 and in Chatooga County, Georgia in 1850. Allen, John and Moses all represent dead ends, the further history of whom is not known.

It is very much a leap of faith and an exercise in conjecture to tie this family to specific South Carolina Gentrys (most of them do indeed report their place of birth as South Carolina). The John Gentry family who were listed in 1810 in the Abbeville District, South Carolina census matches the Hall County family perfectly. The census record for this family is given below. The family is missing from any South Carolina census in 1800, and the author proposes that they were one of several families that moved from South Carolina across the Savannah River to Georgia, and then returned. We will see shortly as discussed below, that another John Gentry family probably did the same, both families returning to South Carolina before 1810. Or they simply may have been missed by the South Carolina census enumerators. The final step of the proposals for the identification of this family is that John, the presumed patriarch of the family, was the son present with David Gentry Jr. in Pendleton District, South Carolina at the time of the 1790 census, but who was missing in 1800. John himself, and his wife, are missing from the Hall County records and probably died shortly before the family move.

Name		1790	1800	1810	1820	1830
(G3122) John Gentry	M	(Pendleton) bef.1774	(GA?)	Abbeville 1765-1784	---
- spouse	F			1765-1784	---
(G31221) - Allen-D   -- spouse   -- daughter   -- sister Rachel?	M F F F			1794-1800	Hall, GA 1794-1804 1794-1804 1810-1820 (1804-1810)
- Roland	M			1794-1800	(in Hall, GA)
- John   -- spouse	M F			1800-1810	Hall, GA 1794-1804 1794-1804
- Moses	M			1800-1810	(in Hall, GA)
- Serena	F			1800-1810	(in Hall, GA)
- Rachel	F			1800-1810	(with Allen?)
- Raleigh	M			1800-1810	(in Hall, GA)
- William	M			(b. 1817)	(in Hall, GA)

6. Allen-E Gentry (G31313)
Finally, in our series of Allens, we come to the only one who was born in Georgia rather than South Carolina. Since the age he reported to the census in 1850 was 59, his birth in about 1791 places definite restrictions on which potential fathers were living in Georgia at that time. Moreover, his age indicates that he was likely to have been too young to be the son of one of David-III Gentry's sons, that is a grandson of David. Rather, he must have been an additional generation removed. Of the potential families involved, David's sons Elisha and Elijah come immediately to mind, since both of them were living in Georgia at the time of both the 1790 and the 1800 census. Elijah was young enough and his family was sufficiently poorly documented that it is conceivable that this Allen could have been a son of his. However, much more probable was the John Gentry family that was away from South Carolina in 1790 and 1800 but returned to Edgefield District in time for the 1810 census. Indeed, this family had a son living with them during the 1810 census who was of the right age to be Allen-E. There is much conjecture as to whether this 1810 family is the same one as appeared in Spartanburg District, South Carolina in 1820 with Susan Gentry as the head of household. Whether or not it was the same family, Allen was not present in 1820 and we can guess that he went from South Carolina to Tennessee in that period of time whereas several other members of the family moved instead to northern Georgia.

Allen-E appears to be the Allen Gentry who beginning in 1820 was present in Rhea County, Tennessee, with several of his cousins, members of Elisha Gentry's family. Allen was taxed at intervals in that county from 1820 to 1828, being listed on the tax rolls with Naomi Gentry (Elisha Gentry's widow), Cain Gentry and Micajah Gentry (sons of Elisha). All of these had been listed previously in Georgia tax lists, Cain Gentry being the last of a series when he was taxed in 1817 in Morgan County. All except Naomi were taxed for one white poll each. Naomi was taxed only for first three then one black poll, apparently representing a slave who accompanied her. In 1820, a William Gentry was taxed for this black poll instead of Naomi. Since there are no known William Gentrys that were part of Elisha's family, he represents an enigma that has not been fully resolved.

There are further references to the Gentrys in Rhea County in addition to the tax record. In 1823, Cain was married to Patsy (Martha) Philpot. In 1825, an Allen Gentry married Sarah King. From later census records, it appears clear that this Allen and Sarah were the couple who were present later in Bledsoe County, Tennessee for the 1840 and 1850 census and that this was a second marriage for Allen. A further marriage, also in 1825 was for John Gentry and Elizabeth Hays. This could not have been the John Gentry who was present in Bledsoe County in 1850, since the latter would have been only ten years old at the time of the marriage and his wife Elizabeth would have been only three years old. Rather it is likely that the John who was married was a son of Allen-B (see census chart above) who then died or moved out of state. The 1850 Bledsoe County census reference for John was undoubtedly the John Gentry for whom there are several references in Bledsoe County during the period between 1837 and 1849. He was probably the oldest son of Allen-E. The Nancy Gentry found in the 1850 Mortality Schedule in Bledsoe Co. (age 33, died Sep 1849) was probably Allen's oldest daughter. The census record for Allen and for his proposed father John Gentry is shown below.

Census record for family of John Gentry

Name		1810	1820	1830	1840	1850
(G3131) John Gentry	M	Edgefield bef.1765 (in GA, 1790 and 1800)	---
- sp. Susan	F	1765-1784	Spartanburg bef.1775	---
- Ranneys	M	1784-1794	Spartanburg
- son   -- spouse   -- son   -- daughter	M F M F	1784-1794	1775-1794 1775-1794 1810-1820 1810-1820	---
(G31313) - Allen-E	M	1784-1794	(in Rhea, TN?)	---	Bledsoe, TN	Bledsoe, TN
- daughter - daughter - daughter	F F F	1784-1794 1784-1794 1784-1794	--- --- 1794-1804	---
- [John?] - son - daughter - [Cornelius?] - son	M M F M M	1794-1800 1794-1800 1794-1800 1800-1810 1800-1810	1794-1804 --- --- 1802-1804 ---	Franklin, GA
- daughter - daughter - daughter	F F F	1800-1810 1800-1810 1800-1810	--- --- ---
Census record for family of Allen-E Gentry
(G31313) Allen-E Gentry	M	(Edgefield) (1784-1794)	(in Rhea, TN?)		Bledsoe, TN 1790-1800	Bledsoe, TN age 59 (1791)
- sp(1) - sp(2) Sarah	F F				--- ---	--- age 48 (1802)
- John	M				1810-1820	Bledsoe, TN
- Nancy?	F				1810-1820	Bleds Mort
- Sabina	F				1820-1825	(with John)
- Zelzy	F				??	age 24 (1826)
- Thomas H	M				1825-1830	Bledsoe, TN
- Amy - Sarah E - daughter ? - Elijah L - Joshua C - James K - Frances M	F F F M F M M				1830-1835 1835-1840 1835-1840 1835-1840 1835-1840	age 20 (1830) age 17 (1833) --- age 14 (1836) age 12 (1838) age 9 (1841) age 5 (1845)

Conclusion
The above suggestions for untangling the snarled lines of Allen Gentrys provide logical resolutions of confusing pieces of information scattered through the documentary evidence, particularly of Tennessee. As stated above, none of this can be proved, at least with our current state of knowledge, and it would not be surprising to have some family member come forward with a piece of evidence that would disprove some portion of the above. Barring that, the author feels the proposals provide a rational foundation for further research.
 

In an article in the Journal of Gentry Genealogy, dated November 2004, we discussed an Elijah Gentry who was married in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1810, and who was listed in the census for Clay County, Kentucky, for that same year. We made the suggestion that Elijah was a son of the Tennessee pioneer, Charles Gentry. Since the date of that article, members of the family of Elijah have brought forward information about him and about his descendants that make this relationship unlikely.

Mark Gentry has provided a biography of Elijah's son, James S. Gentry, published in 1884 in the biographical sketches of Monroe County, Indiana. ["Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical", Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago, F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884.]

"James S. GENTRY, an old settler, as well as an enterprising farmer and stock-raiser of this county, was born on January 9, 1813, in Kentucky, and is the second of three children given to Elijah and Elizabeth (WARE) GENTRY, natives of Tennessee and Virginia, and of English and Scotch origin, respectively. James S. was reared on a farm, attended school in Indiana about eleven months, and so learned to read and cipher. His parents brought him into Indiana in 1816, and settled in Harrison County. About 1817, his father died, and his mother moved, first to Lost River, Orange County, in 1822, and then to Morgan County, and, about 1838 or 1839, James S. entered eighty acres of land, where he now lives, and to which he has added, until the number of acres amounts to 253, all cultivated, with residence, out-buildings and orchard. On February 8, 1838, Mr. Gentry married Eliza, daughter of Joseph and Mary (GRAHAM) CAMPBELL, of Monroe County. Her parents came here in 1818, and her mother drew a silver medal for being the oldest settler represented at the old settlers' meeting, August 9, 1883. By this union, Mr. GENTRY had the following children; William C., Lemuel K. (deceased), Norman J., Mary J. (COSNER), Joseph P., James M., David D. and Thomas H. Two of Mr. GENTRY's sons, William C. and Lemuel K. were in the late war...."

This biography has led to further census studies relating to James Gentry and his family. In 1840, James and an obvious brother Lemuel appeared in the 1840 census for Monroe County, James with no children and Lemuel with four young children. Both families were present again in the 1850 census for this same county. Lemuel was age 39 at the time, born in Kentucky, and James was 37, also born in Kentucky. Lemuel clearly is the older child of Elijah and Elizabeth to which reference is made in the biography above. As one looks at the names of the children included in both families, only William and David are names typical of the family of Robert Gentry and his sons Charles, Jesse, Bartlett and Martin. Rather there is the use of names common among the Gentrys that settled the Madison County, Kentucky, area, namely James as one of Elijah's first children, as well as Joseph, David, William and Thomas. While names alone mean nothing, neither should they be ignored.

In the previous article we used the fact that Elijah Gentry and David Gentry were listed in the same 1810 Clay County, Kentucky census to speculate that they might be part of the same family. The consideration of possible significance of names, together with the fact that David's previous references came from Tennessee while Elijah's only previous reference was in Kentucky in neighboring Madison County, suggests that indeed there was no connection between the two. We now conclude that Elijah was probably related to the Madison County, Kentucky branches of the Gentry family (Nicholas-II Gentry's sons David, Moses and Martin) rather than to the Tennessee branch (represented by their brother Robert). Elijah's exact relationship is not known at this time.
 

References for Allen Gentrys
Marriage Records
1. Byron & Barbara Sistler, "Early Middle Tennessee Marriages", Nashville, TN, 1988.

Rhea Co.
1823	Jan 14	Gentry, Cain	Patsey Philpot	(m. 16 Jan 1823 by Thomas Cox JP)
1825	Jul 5	Gentry, Allen	Sarah King	(m. 14 Jul 1825 by Thomas Cox JP)
1825	Dec 13	Gentry, John	Elizabeth Hays	(m. by James McDonald JP)
Roane Co.
1823	May 24	Gentry, Shedrick	Rebecca Ballard	George Moor, bond
1828	Feb 1	Gentry, Owin	Martha J Breazeale	Lewis Anthony, bond
1838	Nov 15	Bowman, Robert	Matilda Gentry	Alexander Dugger, bond (m.by Brasher Roberts JP)

Tax Records
2. Byron and Barbara Sistler, "Index to Early Tennessee Tax Lists", Evanston, IL, 1977

3. Bettye J. Broyles, "Rhea County, Tennessee Tax Lists 1819 - 1829", Rhea County Historical and Genealogical Society, 1989

4. McMinn County Tax List film 266, Tennessee State Library and Archives

5. James L. Douthat, "1836 Tennessee Civil Districts and Tax Lists", Mountain Press, 1993

Combined Tax Record Listing McMinn County,      (refr 2)		Acres	White Polls	Black Polls
1825	Gentry, Allen	present
Rhea County,      (refr. 3)
1820	Gentry, Cain Gentry, Allen Gentry, William	-- -- --	1 1 --	-- -- 1
1821	Gentry, Leome [Naomi] Gentry, Allen Gentry, Cain	-- -- --	-- 1 1	3 -- --
1822	Gentry, Leoma [Naomi] Gentry, Cain Gentry, Allen	-- -- --	-- 1 1	1 -- --
1823	Gentry, Allen Gentry, Mrs Gentry, Cain	-- -- --	1 -- 1	-- 1 --
1824	Gentry, Allen Gentry, Naomi Gentry, Micajah Gentry, Cain	-- -- -- --	1 -- 1 1	-- 1 -- --
1826	Gentry, Allen	--	1	--
1828	Gentry, Allen	--	1
McMinn County     (refr. 4)
1828	Allen Gentry	--	1	--
1829	Shedirick Gentry	--	1	--
1830	Shederick Gentry (p.60) Allen Gentry (p.82) David Gentry (p.82)	-- -- 260	1 -- --	-- -- --
1831	Allen Gentry	--	1	--
Bledsoe County (refr. 5)
1837 1838 1839	John Gentry John Gentry John Gentry	present present present

Court Records
6. Mrs. Annie Swafford, "Records of Bledsoe County, Tennessee County Court Minute Book, vol 1 (1841-1846)", The Historical Records Survey, Nashville, TN 1939
May Session 1842 Bk(1-83)
       John Jentry appointed overseer of the public road.
Aug Session 1844 Bk(1-296)
       William Henderson appointed overseer of a public road [...] and John A. Gentry to work under him as overseer.

7. WPA copy of Bledsoe County Deed Book L (1838-1854)
15 May 1850 Bk(L-16)
       John Gentry and Zion Edmonds affirmed to their witnessing of a deed of gift from Saml Rankin to James Rankin for 80 ac in Bledsoe County, TN, located generally on Sequatchie Creek [with detailed metes and bounds], and given 15 Aug 1849.

8. Bettye J. Broyles, "County Court of Rhea County Tennessee (Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions) May 1823 - November 1828", Rhea County Historical and Genealogical Society, 1992
May Term 1824
       Allen Gentry appointed juror
Feb Term 1826 (78-9)
       Allen Gentry among group appointed Jury of View to lay off and mark a road.
May Term 1826
       Allen Gentry among group appointed to work under Thomas Harp, overseer of new road.
Aug Term 1826
       Allen Gentry among group appointed to work under John Knight, overseer of road.
Nov Term 1826
       Allen Gentry appointed as juror.
Feb Term 1827
       Allen Gentry among jurors summoned to appear.
       Allen was elected to a Grand Jury.        Jury including Allen Gentry found for the plaintiff.
Aug Term 1827
       Allen Gentry among group appointed a Jury of View to lay off a road.
Nov Term 1827
       Allen Gentry among group appointed a Jury of View to lay off a road [same as Aug Term].

9. Robert L. Bailey, "Roane County, Tennessee County Court Minutes (1830-1832)", 2000
25 Apr 1831
       H.K. Hotchkiss proved in open court a deed from Allen S. Bacon to Jared Hotchkiss for 250 ac, and made oath that the other witness, Wm Gentry subscribed the same in his presence as a concurring evidence and that he has since that time removed beyond the limits of the state and is now out of the State.

10. ibid, "County Court Minutes (1832-1835)", 2000
23 Jul 1832
       Owing Gentry and Moses Wells attested to deed.
23 Oct 1832
       Deed from John Woody to Owing Gentry for 140 ac land in this county.

11. WPA Transcription of Minutes of the County Court of Roane County, Tennessee, Book H (1819-1821)
20 Jul 1820
       Allen Gentry produced in court the scalp of a wolf under four months old and the Court being satisfied from the oath of the said Allen that he killed the said wolf in the County of Roane within 12 months last past and it is ordered that the same be certified to the Treasurer of East Tennessee.
26 Apr 1820 Bk(H-211)
       William Gentry among jurors for a case of Edward Garrett vs Samuel Brown.
27 Apr 1820 Bk(H-220)
       William Gentry among jurors for a case of Simeon Geren Assee vs William McClellan.
27 Apr 1820 Bk(H-224)
       William Gentry among jurors for a case of Roland Frost vs Samuel Brown.

Military Records
Roane Co.
Muster Roll of Capt. James Preston's Company, enlisted 5 Oct 1813 to 5 Jan 1814. Includes Allen Gentry as private.
[Note. These troops served in the United States Army during a national emergency and were under the command of Colonel John Brown of Roane County. The appearance of a name on this list does not necessarily signify that the soldier resided in Roane County.]

1821 Militia Rolls, Captain Arnolds Company. Includes William Gentry

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