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My most recent Gentry is Lillian Elizabeth Gentry, who was my mom's mom's mom's mom. This line is known at least as far back as Samuel Gentry (1753-1816). Samuel is quite likely the son of Joseph Gentry and Agnes Shelton. If true, then this line of Gentrys extends back probably to the Samuel Gentry (b. 1628) who married Margaret Draper. I have not done very much research on this line. I have gotten most of my material from internet sources, cousins, and the book Gentry Family in America (1909), which I got from Higginson Books. I do just want to point out one thing which poses a potential confound to the persons investigating the line of Gentrys from Massey Gentry through James M. Gentry. Massey Gentry married Elizabeth Jones and had son James M. Gentry. Not long after James M. Gentry was born, Massey Gentry died. Elizabeth (Jones) Gentry then married Nathan Lynn, whose first wife (Harriet Ford) had also recently died. So James M. Gentry was for a time thereafter found in the Lynn household (the 1860 Census of Muhlenburg Co., KY, for example). It remains to be seen if James M. Gentry was mentioned in legal documents as James M. Lynn. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||