At 02:18 PM 3/30/03 -0700, you wrote: >GENTRY-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 17 >______________________________X-Message: #13 >Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 11:29:25 -0600 >From: Irma Roy <iroy@bham.rr.com> > >Allen Cain GENTRY who was born about 1788 in South Carolina, died on >November 10, 1842, Carrolville, Tishimingo County, MS. He married Rebecca >MOTES. On the 1840 Shelby County, Alabama Census, Allen Cain and his son >Drury as listed as living beside my ances Simeon MILES. By 1842 they are >all in Tishomingo County, MS where in 1844 Aaron DUN/DEEN (record hard to >read) sues Drury JENTRY, SIMEON MILES and Rebecca JENTRY. There is only a >court record of the filing of the suit. Old Tishomingo records have been >vandalized and are in great disarray so my cousin who visited the place >where the records are kept could only find this record. Question for Irma Roy: I am wondering about whether or not Allen Gentry actually had the middle name of Cain. This is the first I have heard of this name in this family. Cain is of course found in the family's of Allen's uncles Allen Cain and Elisha (both sons of David-III Gentry. I am not contesting the accuracy of your statement, just wondering about the basis for it. Bill Gentry. >______________________________X-Message: #18 >Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 10:55:02 -0800 >From: "Sharron Redden" <redden@thegrid.net> > >Looking for parents of Ann GENTRY born August 1759 Edgecombe, North Carolina. >Ann married David BAKER before 1779 in Edgecombe. >They moved to Lexington, Fayette Co., Kentucky >Baker children were: >Michael, Charity, Ann, Amos, Asa, Sarah, Allen, Phoebe, Agnes and an >unknown daughter who md. a Bosley. >Ann Gentry Baker died in Fayette Co., Ky. in1855. Question to Sharron Redden I am wondering about your source for Ann Gentry's birth in Edgecombe Co., NC. In many years of researching NC Gentrys, I have never come upon any in Edgecombe Co, especially in this time period. Aside from Elkanah Gentry who I believe was part of a different family (not a descendant of Nicholas), I know of no Gentrys who settled permanently in NC until the late 1760's in the area that became Surry Co. in 1770, and then in Caswell Co. in the 1770's. There is a brief reference to a John Gentry witnessing a deed in Johnston Co. in 1759, but I believe he was there only briefly and returned to Lunenburg Co., VA. I would be very interested in learning if this is truly an authentic case of a Gentry being in NC at this location at so early a date. Bill Gentry