Noted historian William Seale has this to say in his book titled "Sam Houston's Wife", on page 23 (among other references) "Sam Houston bought an interest in a trading post, and by Cherokee law took an Indian wife, a blacksmith's widow named Diana Rogers Gentry.who was part Cherokee and whose family Houston had known as a boy. At their Wigwam Neosho, she and Houston operated an apparently successful business and maintained small herds as well. Diana Rogers Gentry is a baffling character in Houston's life. Some years his senior she seems to have offered him temporary peace in which he tried to regain hiss emotional strength." Emma Gene Gentry