ROANE COUNTY, TN - MILITARY - Sketches of Tennessee Revolutionary War Soldiers
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From the “Susie Gentry Scrapbook” microfilm AC#58 at the TSLA:

October 5, 1911
SOLDIERS OF THIS STATE WHO FOUGHT IN THE REVOLUTION
Sketches of 403 of them prepared by Franklin Woman.
TASK BEGUN IN 1899
Historical Society and Carnegie Library Here Will Receive Interesting Volume.


Franklin, Tenn., Oct. 4.—(Special)
The archives of the Tennessee Historical Society and the Carnegie Library at 
Nashville will receive in a day or two an addition of marked interest. It will 
be a handsomely bound volume, the contents of which represent eleven years of 
patient research by the compiler, Miss Susie Gentry of Franklin, Tenn. She is 
a close relative of the gifted Meredith R. Gentry, a niece of Senator Jones of 
Marshall county, and first cousin of the late Jere Baxter and of Senator Nat 
Baxter. By heredity, it is seen, she takes a natural interest in public 
affairs, and for years she has been prominent in the club and literary life of 
the womanhood of the state.
Over ten years ago Miss Gentry conceived of the idea of securing sketches of 
the Tennessee soldiers of the war of the American Revolution, and locating the 
graves of those that are buried in the state. She mentioned that purpose to 
Miss Mary Hannah Johnson, librarian of the Carnegie Library, who requested 
permission to make a typewritten copy of the book when completed, to be 
preserved at the library, while the original rested in the archives of the 
State Historical Society.
TASK FINISHED
Miss Gentry has just finished her long task, and this mass of correspondence, 
neatly arranged and numbered, a separate section for every soldier, is now 
bound in permanent form, and will be turned over in a day or two to Miss 
Johnson.
With the exception of Georgia, no other southern state will have such a record 
of its revolutionary heroes. Miss Gentry has traced 403 of these, and secured 
accurate data as to each. She set about her object in 1899 in a systematic 
manner. Having secured from Washington a roster of the pensioners of the 
revolution who were living in Tennessee in 1840, she sent to a newspaper in 
each county the list of the pensioners who once lived there, asking their 
descendants to communicate to her information as to the place of burial of 
their ancestors, and any facts bearing on their war records, lineage etc. This 
was the ground work of the elaborate system of correspondence which followed, 
and which during the past decade has extended to writers scattered all over 
the country.
Government officials, men and women of note, far and near, have most willingly 
co-operated with Miss Gentry to make her plan a complete success, and the 
result is a compilation of fact and incident of surprising interest grouped 
under the eye of the reader of this and coming generations. It may be easily 
predicted that this volume will be closely scanned by the future historians of 
Tennessee.
In this general connection it should be stated that two memorials to 
revolutionary soldiers have been erected in Tennessee. The first in the state, 
it is said, was the marble tablet unveiled under the auspices of Old Glory 
Chapter, D. A. R., at Franklin, Jan. 28, 1910, bearing the names of the fifty-
six soldiers from that county. The memorial to the revolutionary soldiers of 
the state was unveiled twenty-five days later at the courthouse in Nashville.


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