Colonel
Richard
Gentry
Born in Madison County, Kentucky
Ancestors 
Brother of
Reuben Estes Gentry, David Gentry, Cassandra (Gentry) Warren, Christy Gentry, James Gentry, Joseph McCord Gentry, Nancy Harris (Gentry) Bush, Joshua Gentry, Joseph Gentry, Overton Harris Gentry, Rhodes Gentry, Jane Harris (Gentry) Blythe and Robert R. Gentry [half]
Husband of
Ann (Hawkins) Gentry
— married
13 Feb 1810 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Richard Harrison Gentry
Died
at age 49
in Battle of Lake Okeechobee, Florida
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Biography
Richard and Ann Hawkins Gentry were early settlers in Missouri and played an important role in establishing Columbia, Missouri. Richard Gentry, a career military officer, served as the city’s first mayor. Ann Hawkins Gentry operated the family’s thriving tavern. Both Richard and Ann served as postmaster of Columbia. The city of Columbia would not be the same today without the influence of these Missouri pioneers.
Richard Gentry, Jr. was born in Madison County, Kentucky, on August 21, 1788. His father, Richard Gentry, Sr., was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. Richard followed in his father’s footsteps and was commissioned a lieutenant in the Nineteenth Regiment of the Kentucky State Militia at the age of nineteen.
In 1835 the United States launched a military campaign against the Seminoles in Florida. Richard Gentry raised a volunteer regiment of Missourians to serve during the conflict. Although he was a major general in the state militia, he was commissioned a colonel of volunteers.
Gentry and the regiment departed from St. Louis on October 15, 1837, and upon their arrival in Florida they were placed under the command of a future U.S. president, Colonel Zachary Taylor.
On Christmas Day in 1837, Taylor ordered Gentry and his men into action against the Seminoles. Taylor brushed aside Gentry’s suggestion that they should attack the enemy’s flanks and ordered a frontal assault. Gentry took his place at the head of his troops and led his men into battle. He was killed while advancing toward Seminole fighters at what is now known as the Battle of Lake Okeechobee. Initially buried on the battlefield, his remains were returned to Missouri in 1839 and buried at the Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis.
Legacy
- Gentry County, Missouri is named in his honor.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Origin of the Names of Missouri's Counties (1899, August 27) The Kansas City Times (Kansas City, Missouri) https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101861801/origin-of-names-of-missouris-counties/
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Richard by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Richard by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Bill Brooks
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup I1a1b1, FTDNA kit #450801
- LeEric Marvin :
Family Tree DNA mtDNA Test Full Sequence, haplogroup I4a1, Ancestry member leericmarvin, FTDNA kit #928575, MitoYDNA ID T14594 [compare]
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~3.12%
Landon Clay :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch NY6082881 [compare], FTDNA kit #436613
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~1.56%
Betsy Collins :
23andMe, GEDmatch M224563 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch M224563 [compare], Ancestry member bcollins60
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MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch M224563 [compare]
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Living DNA, GEDmatch M224563 [compare]
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~1.56%
Richard Clay :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch YW7498688 [compare]
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~0.78%
Mark McKinney :
23andMe
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~0.78%
~1.56%
Gayle Stewart :
23andMe, GEDmatch M100142 [compare], yourDNAportal GAYd2d0049e
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, yourDNAportal GAYd2d0049e, FTDNA kit #B703104
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MyHeritage DNA, yourDNAportal GAYd2d0049e, FTDNA kit #B703104
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Living DNA
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~0.78%
Carolyn Sims :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Robert Parks :
23andMe, GEDmatch AZ2889318 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch AZ2889318 [compare], Ancestry member lauraparks86rn
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch AZ2889318 [compare], FTDNA kit #B663140
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MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch AZ2889318 [compare]
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~0.78%
Gerald Hughes :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A880843 [compare], Ancestry member geraldhughes1021
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~0.78%
Lorene (Honea') Ratliff :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A940800 [compare]
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~0.78%
Brenda Liberto :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch DD1598696 [compare], yourDNAportal BREfc21a98b, Ancestry member familytreebybrenda
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~0.78%
Brad White :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch YW7685119 [compare], FTDNA kit #920894
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