This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gentry,Betz Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/kYB.2ACE/865.1 Message Board Post: my grandfather's name was elmer fletcher gentry and he had a brother named clyde.i never knew them.my grandma would tell me that he was born in shawnee,ok. He came to California and they met while working in the long beach shipyards during WWII. He changed his name to Michael Elmer Gentry. He died June 21,1957. His brother Clyde would go by the name Chet. Is he the same Elmer Gentry?