Notes for Elizabeth GENTRY, II

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Notes for Elizabeth GENTRY, II

Baptized August 29, 1687, St. Peter's Parish, New Kent County, Virginia (information from Mack an Alice Dickey, Wichita, Kansas.

The Fifth gedneration of the Gentry's had settled in almost every Southern Territory, as well as in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. The Gentry's have largely been an agricultural people, interested in their lands and in their flocks and herds, and they were large slave owners until the Civil War ended.

They seem to have preferred their plantations to commercial pursuits or political office. Not many of them achieved greatness or national reputations, yet a large number of them have been prominent in their states and counties. We find Gentry's represented in the legislatures of Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and Misouri at various times.

The Gentry's have been good, strong men, honest and upright, good citizens, patriotic and true, generally prosperous and many of them ministers, business men and doctors of marked ability, wealthy and influential. They have been an honest, conscientious, religious, God-fearing people, loving their families and providing for them well.

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