Need to make a correction: John J. Beard was my great grandfather not my 2x's. Shirley -----Original Message----- From: Shirley Orem <goslo@interconnect.net> To: GENTRY-L@rootsweb.com <GENTRY-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [Gentry] Ann Gentry/NC >It's possible that I may be kin to you. My 2x grand grandfather John. J. >Beard was married to Sarah W. Gentry. He was from NC and she was orig. from >SC. His brother Oran Blufford Beard was married to her cousin, Sarah E. >"Callie" Gentry. One of John J.'s son, William Wilson Beard was married to >Callie's sister, Gilly Ann Gentry. They all left GA in mid 1870's and >settled at Lytton Springs in Caldwell Co. and Garfield in Bastrop Co. (later >was changed to Travis Co.) many of them are buried at Haynies Chapel >Cemetery in Garfield. Another one of John J.'s sons was, John Hezekiah >Beard. He was named after his gr. grandfather Hezekiah Gentry. Does any of >this ring a bell. Shirley of Corpus Christi, Tx. >-----Original Message----- >From: Mary A. Old <maold@direct.ca> >To: GENTRY-L@rootsweb.com <GENTRY-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 8:37 AM >Subject: Re: [Gentry] Ann Gentry/NC > > >>Hi Mary Ann, >> Hope you will contact me if you find any Gentry's in Edgecombe. I >>am trying to >>get all my misc. Gentry data collated, and then I plan to send it to the >>list in case there >>is something to help someone else. Good luck in your search. They were >>also in AL, where? and in Bastrop and then >>Karnes Co. TX. >>Mary >> >>At 09:36 PM 4/17/03 -0700, you wrote: >>>Hi Mary Ann, I certainly will contact you if I come across anything abt. >>>Gentrys in Edgecombe. I think Bill may be correct and my Ann(a) Gentry >was >>>from VA. I do know she was in Edgecombe but prob. abt. the time of her >>>marriage. This has been a very frustrating family to research for me. I >>>have decided to go all the way back and review all my old paper files and >>>see if I can find anything new or something I have missed. >>>Good hunting to you. >>>Sharron >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: Mary A. Old <maold@direct.ca> >>>To: <GENTRY-L@rootsweb.com> >>>Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2003 7:47 PM >>>Subject: Re: [Gentry] Ann Gentry/NC >>> >>> >>> > Bill and Sharron, >>> > I too am searching for Gentry's purported to have been from >>> > Edgecombe,NC. If you get any good hints for searching this area, >please >>> > pass them on. You will find my query was posted about a week ago. >Thank >>> > you for sharing and good luck in your research. >>> > Mary >>> > >>> > At 07:32 PM 3/30/03 -0800, you wrote: >>> > >Bill, Thank you for responding to my post, I have been looking in >>> > >Edgecombe for Ann's birth because we found a tiny slip of paper in an >old >>> > >ledger of my great grandfather's that said this family probably came >from >>> > >Edgecombe, NC. No wonder I couldn't find anything about her, except >her >>> > >connection to the Bakers. >>> > >Would you have any suggestions re: where to search? I have found a >>> > >zillion Ann Gentrys, seems everyone has one !! >>> > >Again, I am appreciative of you taking the time to respond. >>> > >Sharron >>> > > >>> > > >>> > >==== GENTRY Mailing List ==== >>> > >List Administrator >>> > >Norma Adams Questions should be sent to njadams@cinci.rr.com >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > ==== GENTRY Mailing List ==== >>> > The Gentry List has 195 List mode subscribers and 58 Digest >subscribers. >>> > Please resubmit your queries often. >>> > >>> >>> >>>==== GENTRY Mailing List ==== >>>Gentry List Threaded Archives: >>>http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENTRY >> >> >> >>==== GENTRY Mailing List ==== >>SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBING: The only thing that should be in the message >body is the single word SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE. Don't even put your name. >Send mail to: Gentry-L-Request@Rootsweb.com >> >> > > >==== GENTRY Mailing List ==== >Ancestry's Gentry Message Board: >http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=an&p=surnames.gentry > >