Counties of Morgan, Monroe and Brown, Indiana. Historical and Biographical. 
Charles Blanchard, Editor. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Co., Publishers, 1884

MORGAN COUNTY
ADAMS TOWNSHIP
PAGE 302

ELERSON GENTRY, farmer and stock-raiser, is a native of Hendricks County,
Ind.;  was born January 19, 1833, and is the eldest son of Garland and Susan 
(Stringer) Gentry, natives of Kentucky, and of English extraction.  The grand-
parents of our subject were natives of Virginia, lived in Kentucky, and removed
to and farmed in Indiana.  Garland Gentry moved from Kentucky to this State
about 1831, thence to this township, and subsequently to Texas, Arkansas, and
again to Indiana, where he now lives in retirement, aged seventy-seven years.  He
is a Democrat, a member of the Christian Church.  Was twice married, and is
the father of three children by the first and nine by the second marriage.  Elerson
Gentry was reared a farmer by his father, whom he accompanied to Texas and
Arkansas;  resided in Missouri four years;  returned to Hendricks County, Ind.,
and thence to this conty.  When twenty-one years of age, he left his father's 
house to struggle for himself, and worked for three years by the month;  then
leased land for several years;  finally purchased eighty acres of his father-in-
law's estate, and now owns, in addition, eighty acres west of Mud Creek.
December 29, 1855, he married Miss Mary M. Smith, of this county, born
February 2, 1838.  This union  produced six children--Theresa A., Franklin
A., Susan A., William A., Mary Etta and Thomas A.  Mr. Gentry is a Free-
mason and a Democrat, and he and wife are worthy members of the Christ-
ian Church.

Data Entry Volunteer:  Diana Flynn 

    Source: geocities.com/heartland/meadows/8056/bios

               ( geocities.com/heartland/meadows/8056)                   ( geocities.com/heartland/meadows)                   ( geocities.com/heartland)