Gregg Bonner's Gentry Family
Gregg Bonner's
Gentry Family
GENTRY DNA TYPE
DYS
3
9
3
3
9
0
3
9
4
3
9
1
3
8
5
a
3
8
5
b
4
2
6
3
8
8
4
3
9
3
8
9
i
3
9
2
3
8
9
ii
4
5
8
4
5
9
a
4
5
9
b
4
5
5
4
5
4
4
4
7
4
3
7
4
4
8
4
4
9
4
6
4
a
4
6
4
b
4
6
4
c
4
6
4
d
Value
13
23
14
10
14
14
11
14
11
12
11
28
15
08
09
08
11
23
16
20
29
12
14
15
16/17
Will of Joseph Gentry
(05 January 1776 - 03 September 1855)
Ohio County, Kentucky, Will Records "C", pages 171-174.
For a transcription of this Will, and for full-sized digital images (scans), see the 'WILLS' section of this website.
Gentry Bible Family Record
For a transcription of this Bible, and full-sized digital images (scans), please see the 'BIBLES' section of this website.

I would like to thank Linda Mans for providing these pictures. She also has a site here at RootsWeb.
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.

Last Update: 28 December 2012