Bartlett & Madecy (McGowen) Gentry Family Photo

James Bartlett Gentry, Jr.
and wife
Madecy McGowen

[ Lineage: Madecy 5, Amos 4, Joseph, Jr. 3, Joseph, Sr. 2, William 1]

Madecy McGOWEN was born Aug. 14, 1820 in White Co., TN. She was a dauthter of Amos (ca.1795-by1850) and Louisa (___?___) McGOWEN. She had married 1st to John SANDERS on Dec. 4, 1841. He was born on Apr. 10, 1815 but had died by 1850. At that time Madecy and her daughter were living at her mother's farm in Wright Co., MO. About 1853, Madecy was remarried in Wright Co., MO to Bartlett GENTRY, Jr., a son of Bartlett GENTRY, Sr. and Elizabeth (WHITMAN) Gentry. He was a farmer and circuit preacher who was born Feb. 15, 1803 in TN, and died on May 2, 1893. He married 1st to Eleanor Pricilla MONDAY (MUNDY) ca. 1827. She was born 1803 in NC, and died Mar. 15, 1853 in Wright Co., MO. Madecy died Dec. 11, 1905 and they are buried in Pinelawn Cemetery at Houston, Texas Co., MO.

[Madecy 5, Amos 4, Joseph, Jr. 3, Joseph, Sr. 2, William 1]

The children of James Bartlett Gentry. Jr. and Eleanor Pricilla Mundy (m.ca. 1827):

1. Oliver Henderson GENTRY was born Dec. 20, 1828 in Jackson Co., AL and died on May 8, 1903 in Douglas Co., MO. Was an ordained minister of the Christian church. He was also elected county judge of Douglas Co., served also as circuit clerk and recorder of deeds, and was elected justice of the peace for Findley township. He married on Sept. 1, 1854 to Elizabeth Jane McKINZIE, born Nov. 25, 1833 in KY and died on Nov. 28, 1882 in Douglas Co., MO. During the Civil War, Lorenzo served in several Union regiments. He is buried in Denny Cemetery.

2. Lorenzo Griffin GENTRY was born Dec. 17, 1830 on Illinois. He was a blacksmith and lived in the town of Houston, Texas County, MO. He died on June 19, 1912 at his sons farm in Clara, MO. He had married on Dec. 8, 1859 to Elizabeth C. BARBER. She was born on Mar. 6, 1841, near Lenora, NC and died Feb. 8, 1923. They are both buried in Wolford Cemetery. During the Civil War, Lorenzo served as a Private in Co. B, 8th MO Infantry (CSA). After the war he was very active in the Democratic Party and in Texas County and Houston city politics and government.

3. Joiner D. GENTRY was born Oct. 13, 1832 in Jackson Co., AL. During the Civil War, he was a member of the Webster County Home Guard (Union). He died on Aug. 6, 1915. He married on Dec. 27, 1860 to Martha J. SMITH. She was born May 19, 1837 in IN and died on Jan. 5, 1916. They are buried in Seymour Masonic Cemetery. History of Webster Co. indicates that Joiner was president of the Bank of Seymour and was elected alderman when the city was incorporated.

4. Mary Ann Matilda GENTRY was born Nov. 25, 1834 in Jackson Co., AL. She married Robert McGOWEN, born Feb. 26, 1836 in White Co., TN, the youngest child of Amos and Louisa (___?___) McGOWEN. At the start of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army, Co. E, 4th Missouri Calvary, known as Burbridge's Regiment in the Trans- Mississippi Department. He saw a great deal of service in Missouri and Arkansas. After the surrender at the war's end, they were paroled on June 5, 1865. Robert married Mary Ann Matilda GENTRY in Texas Co., MO on Jan. 1, 1868. Soon after Robert's mother died in 1853, his sister, Madecy (McGOWEN) SANDERS, became his wife's step-mother, by marring her father, Bartlett GENTRY. Robert and Mary had a farm near Houston, Texas Co., but later moving to Carter Co., near VanBuren. In 1891 they moved to Whitman Co., Washington, near Garfield where they had a farm. In 1906 they moved to Spokane. Robert died there on Oct. 12, 1911 and Mary on Feb. 22, 1917. They are buried there in Fairmont Cemetery.

5. Jasper Bartlett GENTRY was born Feb. 17, 1843 in Missouri, and died Feb. 20, 1872 in Houston, Texas Co., MO. He served as a Sergeant in Co. B, 8th Reg't. Missouri Infantry (CSA) in the Civil War. Jasper married Bethany McGOWEN on Jan. 19, 1868 in Texas Co., MO. She was the daughter of Austin and Elizabeth L. (___?___) McGOWEN. She was born Oct. 9, 1842 in White Co., TN and died bet. 1910-1920 in Clarks, Caldwell Co., Louisana where she had been living with her 2nd husband, James Washington GOBBLE.

The children of John Sanders and Madecy McGowen (m. 1841):

1. Rebecca SANDERS was born May 20, 1842 in TN and died Dec. 30, 1905 in Texas Co., MO. She married Michael STOOPS on Jan. 21, 1869 in Texas Co., MO. He had been born in Jan. 1841(?) in IL. Michael was a farmer in Texas Co., and in 1900 they were living near the town of Summerville there. Rebecca was the mother of six children.

The children of James Bartlett Gentry, Jr. and Madecy McGowen (m. ca. 1853):

1. Elmira Priscilla GENTRY was born on May 20, 1855 in Webster Co., MO. She married on Sept. 17, 1873 to James G. WHITE. He was born ca. 1848 in MO. They moved their family moved to Washington State after 1889 and then to Inyo Co., CA in 1896, settling in West Bishop. According to death notice in the Houston Herald of Nov. 5, 1936 she was survived by 4 sons and two daughters and her brother J.C. Gentry and sister Louisa Stoops. She died Aug. 22, 1936 in Bishop, Inyo County, CA from injuries suffered in a car accident on July 1, 1936.

2. Jesse Clay GENTRY was born May 6, 1856 in Seymour, Webster Co., MO, and died Sept. 13, 1939 in Bushy Creek, Texas Co., MO. He married Lou Ann Ferguson on Nov. 22, 1889 in Texas Co., MO. She was born Sept. 7, 1870 and died Jan. 21, 1956 in Texas Co., MO. Jesse C. GENTRY was appointed as executor in his father, Bartlett GENTRY's 1893 will. Jesse and Lou Ann were buried in Pinelawn Cemetery. They were parents of ten children.

3. Perry Green Gentry was born Dec. 7, 1859 in Webster Co., MO, and died Sept. 30, 1886 in Houston, Texas Co., MO. He was a farmer and single and was only 26 years old when he died. He is buried in Pinelawn Cemetery at Houston, MO.

4. Louisa Elizabeth GENTRY was born Feb. 12, 1861 in Seymour, MO. She married 1st on Mar. 17, 1889 to James H. ROBERTSON, a farmer. He was born on Apr. 5, 1854. They had three children. James died Apr. 19, 1900 at Houston, MO and is buried at Pinelawn Cemetery, Houston, MO. Louisa married 2nd in Feb., 1908 to Michael STOOPS, born 1855, also his 2nd marriage. There had no children. Michael was married 1st to Rebecca SANDERS (1842-1905), Louisa's half-sister. Michael died prior to Louisa who died on Oct. 24, 1945 at Houston, MO. Louisa was buried in Bethel Cemetery, Texas Co., MO. Michael was buried next to his 1st wife.

Photo contributed by Katherine (Berry) Kilmanis. Information provided by Allen Gentry and John McGowan.

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