McCulloch Co. TX - Gentry Cemetery

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                         GENTRY   FAMILY  CEMETERY
                                      
                       GENTRY FAMILY CEMETERY - 1901
                                      
                             by ALVIN L. BOLTON
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
    The  Gentry  homestead was about 6 miles east  of Rochelle, Texas, in
   McCulloch County.  This family cemetery is located on top of a rolling
   hill between the Deep Creek county road and Deep Creek.  It is located
   about  200  yards  east of the county road and about 200 yards west of
   Deep Creek.  The county road is now a paved farm road 2822.
   
   
    Elias  Marion  Gentry  and his wife, Melissa Jane Lowery Gentry, laid
   off  this  cemetery  when their son, Jim Gentry, died in 1901.  He was
   the husband of Sally Ann Chitwood and the father of two children, John
   and  George  E.  Gentry.   Sally  later  married  "Bill"  William  Lee
   Wilborn.   Elias  Marion  died  in  1909  and was buried in the family
   cemetery.  About 19 years later, in 1928, his wife, Jane, died and was
   buried  beside  him  on the south side.  The rest of the Gentry family
   (two  daughters,  one  of  which married a Myers and the other one who
   married  an  Anderson)  are buried in the Rochelle Cemetery and Cowboy
   Cemetery in McCulloch County, Texas.
   
    The  Gentry  Cemetery  is about 100 yards (or steps) northeast of the
   old wood framed house of Henry Anderson, a grandson.
   
                                                          ALVIN L. BOLTON
                                                                         
                                                           RT. 1, BOX 233
                                                                         
                                                    ROCHELLE, TEXAS 76872
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                     BURIAL NAME        BIRTH   -  DEATH
                                      
             Gentry,  Elias Marion   (h)       1830  -  Mar., 1909
                                      
       Gentry, Melissa Jane Lowery  (w)       May 16, 1834   -  Oct. 16,
                                    1928
                                      
      Gentry, "Jim" James (hus. of Sally Ann Chitwood)      1876  -  1901