Obituaries: Jefferson Davis Gentry, 1947, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: June 27, 1947 Winn Parish Enterprise

Last Rites Held For Jeff Gentry Sunday, June 22


Funeral services for Jefferson Davis Gentry, 36, of near Winnfield, were held
at the Corinth Baptist Church Sunday afternoon with Rev. Alwin Stokes and Rev.
J. H. Cockerham in charge.  Burial was in Old Corinth graveyard under
direction of Southern Funeral Home.

Pallbearers were Leamon Sullivan, Wade Moore, D. G. Boyett, Walter Goins, Glen
Dawson, and J. C. Harper.

Mr. Gentry was killed accidentally Saturday morning by a shot from a gun which
he had gone after to kill rabbits which had been eating vegetables in the
Gentry garden.  The shot pierced the lower portion of his heart and death was
instant, it was reported.

Born Feb. 15, 1911, Mr. Gentry had lived his entire life in Winn Parish,
having farmed with his parents at their home several miles south of Winnfield.

Besides his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Gentry, he is survived by one sister,
Miss Fannie Gentry, Baton Rouge; and one brother, Elgie Gentry, Kirkland,
Wash., and a host of relatives and friends.