At 12:00 AM 4/8/03 -0600, you wrote: >GENTRY-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 29 >From: Ellen Hodge <magnoliaeast@rocketmail.com> > >The Minerva Gentry that I asked about has a CENSUS age of birth abt.1825 >with the following Gentry(s) listed with her in the 1850 Census in >Spartanburg, SC: >William b.abt.1842, Sarah b.abt.1844, Berry b.abt.1846 >Minerva married Elihu Campbell and their first child, James Henry, was b.1848 I am confused by your reference to Minerva Gentry in the 1850 Spartanburg census. There a "M." (initial only) Gentry, a 25-year-old man, is listed with William, Sarah, and Berry. What relation does he have to Minerva? Moreover if her first child was born in 1848, I would expect her to be listed with Elihu Campbell rather than with any Gentrys. Bill Gentry
I got curious, and these are not related to me, but I looked at the image on ancestry of this census: Page 266 lists: M. Gentry 25 M William 8 M Sarah 6 F Berry 4 M Elihu(Elishu) Campbell 48 M (listed with the family but on the next page. Elishu is what it looks like to me.) Page 300 lists: M. Gentry 49 F Edward 17 M M. Gentry 15 F William 13 M Eliza 11 M Clonuda?? 9 F Hope this helps and as a side note, I have seen the sex labelled incorrectly on censi before. Not that it is the case here, necessarily, but it is possible. Betty Cassidy Bill Gentry wrote: > At 12:00 AM 4/8/03 -0600, you wrote: > >> GENTRY-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 29 >> From: Ellen Hodge <magnoliaeast@rocketmail.com> >> >> The Minerva Gentry that I asked about has a CENSUS age of birth >> abt.1825 with the following Gentry(s) listed with her in the 1850 >> Census in Spartanburg, SC: >> William b.abt.1842, Sarah b.abt.1844, Berry b.abt.1846 >> Minerva married Elihu Campbell and their first child, James Henry, >> was b.1848 > > > I am confused by your reference to Minerva Gentry in the 1850 > Spartanburg census. There a "M." > (initial only) Gentry, a 25-year-old man, is listed with William, > Sarah, and Berry. What relation does he have to Minerva? Moreover if > her first child was born in 1848, I would expect her to be listed with > Elihu Campbell rather than with any Gentrys. > > Bill Gentry > > > ==== GENTRY Mailing List ==== > Genforum Gentry forum: > http://genforum.genealogy.com/gentry/ > >