Meg, I found my Shedrick Gentry pages - which I did not include with the other Bea Yates material I sent, because it was "misplaced" :-/. This guy has been a mystery and maybe someone else can place him in a known Gentry group. I am interested in him because he shows up on the 1829-1830 McMinn Co.TN tax lists with the Allen Gentry I am working on and I have always wondered where he fits. His name probably Shadrack, but seems to be called Shedrick, so it's easy to find him and I refer to him that way to separate him from the others of that name. Here is what I have on him. . . Shedrick Gentry/Jentry b. 1790-1796 South Carolina - d. 1 Jan 1873 Pocahantas, Randolph Co., AR. Married #1 24 May 1823 Rhea Co.,TN to Rebecca Ballard b. 1800 m.#2 Martha Bloucett b.1801 AL. He was War of 1812 pensioner #SO-20038 serv. with Capt. Wm. McClure's Co.,SC Mil. Places of residence: born 1790-1796 South Carolina - possibly of son of Allen Cain Gentry? married 1823 in Rhea Co., TN 1829-1830 McMinn Co.,TN Tax Lists (not on 1830 census 1840 census - S.K. Gentry in DeKalb Co., Alabama 1850 census - Jackson Co., Alabama - age 54, Son Allen also h/h age 25 1870 census - Randolph Co., AR Children of Shedrick Gentry and Rebecca Ballard 1. Samuel Gentry - b. 1823 Tenn 2. Allen Gentry - b. 1825 Tenn - m. 1847 AL to Luvenia Ch. Margaret, Fleming born by 1850 cen in AL 3. Eliza Gentry b 1828 Tenn m. 1855 AL to Robert M. Camp mov to LA 4. Harriet Gentry b. 1832 AL 5. Emily Gentry b. 1833 TN 6. Caroline Gentry b. 1837 AL 7. James Gentry b. 1840 AL 8. William Russell Gentry b. 1842 AL -d 1913 LA m. 1866 LA to Samantha Camp ch. Arch Gentry b. 1881 LA m. Sally Harris (WFT Vol 1, 3471) 9. Hiram Gentry b. 1845 AL - killed in C.W. Sure would like to find out more about this Shedrick and who his parents were. Pamela Geisler Smith Gresham, OR