Sarah (Buckner) Gentry (1792 - 1880)

Born 19 Apr 1792 in Tennessee, United States

Wife of David Gentry — married 21 Oct 1811 in Carter, Tennessee, United States

Descendants

Died 10 Dec 1880 at age 88 in Johnson, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Sarah was probably born in what would become Carter Co., TN in 1792.^[1][2] The borders were unclear in the early 1790s, so the location may have been reckoned as either Virginia or North Carolina, and her father was one of the signatories of a petition to form the State of Franklin out of that territory in 1787. Carter Co. was formed in 1796. She married David Gentry in Carter on 21 Oct 1811.^[3] Based on her age and the presence of William Buckner in Carter Co. at the time, she was most likely one of his daughters, particularly since he witnessed a deed involving David Gentry's brother Benjamin in 1823.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCD2-W2Z : 12 April 2016), Sarah Gentry in household of David Gentry, Johnson county, Johnson, Tennessee, United States; citing family 28, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
2. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13252271
3. ↑ Widely reported in secondary sources - primary source unclear.
4. ↑ http://www.gentryjournal.org/archives/jgg04d.htm, citing Mary McIver, Abstracts of the Deeds of Carter County, Tennessee 1796-1825, McIver, Elizabethton, TN 1985, p. 103, Deed Book C-604.