Sallie A Gentry: Strong McLemore Ancestry

Generation: 1

Sallie A Gentry was born on 29 Jul 1856 in Missouri; died on 14 Sep 1876 in Johnson County, Texas; was buried in Oakland Cemetery, Grandview, Johnson County, Texas.

Notes:

On 1860 census but not 1870.

Lynell Gentry emailed, in April 2006, that Sallie was listed in "History of Johnson Co. TX" as one of the first students to attend the Oakland College, which was chartered Nov. 2, 1866. Unfortunately, Sallie became the first person buried in the new Oakland Cemetery next to the school. People who later canvassed the cemetery for the genealogical society were unable to read Sallie's death date but it was later posted as: GENTRY, Miss Sallie A. 29 Jul 1856 14 Sep 1876.

(Miltenberger's Report copied 1969)

A photo of this headstone is posted. The year of death is extremely difficult to verify, but it appears more likely to be either 1860, making Sallie only four at the time of her death. This would account for her absence at the time of the 1870 census, and would also mean that she was not the same Sallie Gentry who was a student at Oakland College. It could also be 1880, putting her age of death at 24.