I'll send this information on to the Wise County genealogy email list. Someone may be connected to these people. Sue ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rebecca Vallarian" <[email protected]> To: "Sue Tackel" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:57 PM Subject: Re: Headstone pixs? > Thank you SO much for the tombstone pixs!!! The link to the birth records > show some interesting possibilities with the MS place of birth....will > look into that. > > I noticed in the listing for the Pleasant View #1 Cemetery a listing for > the CSA soldier William Allen Gentry. He served in the outfit of Henry > Harrison Wells' daddy. Col. Joseph M. Wells was the leader of the > Blackland Gideonites and Gentry is listed as being there. Interesting > speculation as to how those two came to be in Texas. (Gentrys were from > the area near the Wells) > > Henry served in the 34th Regiment of the Mississippi Infantry as Corporal > in Company H. He had four other brothers plus his daddy in the war. They > served with their father, but Henry chose another unit. > > Thanks again!! We used to live in Victoria, TX for two years and we all > cried and cried when we had to come back to Mississippi. We loved our > time in TX! > > Rebecca Vallarian