Hi, I received this from Mitzie. She was a list member but Rootsweb's computer says she isn't. It may be because of all the moving of servers they've been doing. So if you can help, reply to Mitzie personally. Mitzie, you might want to try subscribing again. Norma >Delivered-To: njadams@siscom.net >Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 00:06:09 -0600 >X-From_: mperkins@waymark.net Mon Jul 1 00:06:05 2002 >From: "Mitzi Hammond Perkins" <mperkins@waymark.net> >To: "Bill Gentry" <gntry.srch@att.net>, <GENTRY-L@rootsweb.com>, > "Norma Adams" <NJADAMS@siscom.net> >Old-Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 17:40:33 -0500 >X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 >X-Diagnostic: Not on the accept list >Subject: {not a subscriber} Re: Nancy and Susan [Gentry] Re: GENTRY-D >Digest V02 #51 >X-Envelope-To: GENTRY-L > >On May 10 a message was posted about "Nancy Gentry (dau. of Martin, Madison >Cty. KY) whose daughter was named Susan. >Susan married a man named Amos Dethridge. " >My great-great grandmother was Susan D. Gentry daughter of Nancy and Allen >Gentry She was born in Person Cty NC on Nov. 02, 1826. She married William >Henry Humphries (Person Cty NC b. 1826) on Mar 03, 1843 in Person Cty. She >died in Melissa, Collin Cty, Texas on Feb 10, 1875. >My aunt, Montie Erwin Taylor, (Susan's granddaughter) always said Susan's >middle name was Baird and that the initial D. on her tombstone in Highland >Cemetery in Melissa was incorrect. >Is the Susan in your message my gggrandmother? She could have been married >and widowed very young. >Does anyone have any information about a connection to the Baird name? This >family was very traditional in that the named their children after relatives >and each child (except two girls) has someones surname as a middle name. I >have a hunch that Susan's siblings (if not she herself) may have had middle >names of biblical origin as this line includes Meshach, Shadrach and >Abednigo Gentry (along with Allen and Pinckney). >Susan's husband came from a family just as traditional (and more fertile) as >his parents had 22 children and named each accordingly. (William went on to >marry three more times and produced children by each wife--he was into his >sixties ( I think.) He died in 1908. >I have a lot more information on this family along William's line but very >little on Susan's--just conjecture. >Thanks for any help >Mitzi Hammond Perkins from - Middletown, Ohio Family Page: http://www.angelfire.com/oh/myfamilygenes Gentry Records Page: http://members.tripod.com/~nanny_4/index.html Mail lists I manage: WERNER-L, KYPERRY-L, BAKER-L, OHBUTLER-L, SE-KENTUCKY-L, GENTRY-L