I have a question if anyone know. My gggg grandfather Wm Smeathers had a friend name James Gentry he played jokes on a lot. I am wondering if anyone knows which one of these might have been him?? thanks, Nena 1. James b.1767/1768 Louisa Co., Vir d.1833 Winchester Co., Kentucky (family#10) 2. James b,1782 Albemarle Co., Vir d.1809 Madison Co., Kentucky Both had a wife named Elizabeth. One was Elizabeth Lyons the other was just Elizabeth.Both had several children. James Gentry was with my gggg grandfather, Wm Smeathers in the Ky Cornstalk Militia in abt 1794...do you have anything on him? In the book Law of the Heart written by Dorothy Gentry [which I have another question on], he is mentioned on pg 148...which says, "Abt 5yrs ago, 1808 to be exact James Gentry and I joined the Cornstalk Militia. Gentry was an Ensign, same as me. I must go see abt him as soon as I get Felty [Valentine] Husk to go with as I may need some protection!...Bill laughed...yeah, that trip that me and Husk played on Gentry when he was scouting acorns for his hogs has never been mentioned since but I will remember the look on his face as long as I live..ha ha!" I have this story what my Bill and his pal Felty did to Gentry. Just from what I have read I guess my grandfather xxxx was well known for playing jokes on his friends! I am wondering if Dorothy Gentry was a Gentry by marriage or if Gentry was her maiden name. I had asked her some questions when I wrote to her in Hartford where she still lives, and she wrote me back in 2000 and said she was 80 yrs old and her husband had died and she had retired from being a newspaper editor of the local newspaper in Harford, I assume. So she never answered my questions except to say she was not kin to the Smeathers. But my Wm Smeathers dau, Betsy Smeathers m John Berry and his 2nd wife Nancy Frazier [Gentry] was widow of Wm Gentry, son of Raleigh Gentry. So I have always been real curious if Dorothy was kin to this Raleigh Gentry line. I can't figure out why she wrote a book on my gggg grandfather if she had no relation to anyone in the book. Then I wonder where she got all the info she has in the book. Much of it she does claim came from the Thomas McCreery story he wrote of my grandfather in 1866 in the Life and Time of William Smothers. If anyone knows info please email me, I would also like to know what newspaper in Hartford she might have been the editor of, there is an article they printed on Wm Smeathers I would like to get a copy of, thanks so much. Nena _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp