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Family: William Miller Gentry / Mary "Molly" Evelyn Mounts (F1107)

m. 12 Jul 1872


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  • Male
    William Miller Gentry

    Birth  23 May 1851  Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  23 Sep 1929  Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Duncan Municipal Cemetery, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Marriage  12 Jul 1872  [1]  Grayson County, Texas  [1] Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  John Melton Gentry | F164 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Pamelia C Harpole | F164 Group Sheet 

    Female
    Mary "Molly" Evelyn Mounts

    Birth  27 Aug 1857  West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  10 Sep 1940  Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Duncan Municipal Cemetery, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Father  William J. Mounts | F2835 Group Sheet 
    Mother  Salinda Galloway | F2835 Group Sheet 

    Female
    Carrie Francis Gentry

    Birth  Abt 1875  Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  1899  Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial     
    Spouse  Thomas Condren | F2943 
    Marriage  13 Feb 1896  Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location

    Female
    Permelia Gertrude Gentry

    Birth  Aug 1876  Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  11 Sep 1906  Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Walter Winkle Payne | F1052 
    Marriage  Abt 1894  Stephens County, Indian Territory Find all individuals with events at this location

    Male
    Franklin Melton Gentry

    Birth  24 May 1880  Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  11 Jun 1928  Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Duncan Municipal Cemetery, Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Ada Carol Jones | F1106 
    Marriage  17 Sep 1905  Arthur, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory Find all individuals with events at this location

    Male
    Edgar Jeffery Gentry

    Birth  26 Dec 1882  Decatur, Wise County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  5 Jan 1967  Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Sarah Frances "Fannie" Kincannon | F3003 
    Marriage  26 Sep 1909  Arthur, Parks Township, Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location

    Male
    John William Gentry

    Birth  9 Aug 1885  Decatur, Wise County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  20 Oct 1972  Alpine, Brewster County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial     
    Spouse  Rena W. Bunch | F3026 
    Marriage  15 Jun 1911  Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Julia Zumwalt | F3006 
    Marriage  Between 1912 and 1917   

    Female
    Grace Ellen Gentry

    Birth  3 Nov 1888  Decatur, Wise County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  16 Dec 1966  Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Duncan, Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Marvin Walter Payne | F1112 
    Marriage  22 Jan 1907  Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location

    Male
    Emory Howell Gentry, Sr.

    Birth  26 May 1893  Stephens County, Indian Territory Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  1 Aug 1967  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Fairview Cemetery, Grady County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Lillie Letticia Rowe | F3008 
    Marriage  22 Dec 1912  Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location

    Female
    Ruth Pearl Gentry

    Birth  19 Dec 1896  Arthur, Parks Township, Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location
    Death  27 Dec 1987  Pampa, Gray County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Burial    Fairview Cemetery, Pampa, Gray County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location
    Spouse  Scott Phillip Hall | F3012 
    Marriage  3 Jun 1918  Stephens County, Oklahoma Find all individuals with events at this location

  • Notes  Married:
    • Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Gentry Celebrate their "Golden Wedding Day"

      Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Gentry of this city [Duncan] celebrated their "Golden Wedding Day" Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Payne, a few miles east of this city, surrounded by their sons and daughters, grand children, great grandchildren and a host of relatives and friends.

      Married 50 years ago in Pottsboro, Grayson County, Texas, Mr. and Mrs. Gentry came to Oklahoma before there was any Stephen's county of a city of Duncan. They have resided in Stephens county, near Duncan, for the last 33 years and in the city of Duncan for three years.

      Mr. Gentry, who has passed the 72nd milestone of life, was born in Tennessee, and moved to Texas when that state was young. Mrs. Gentry was born in West Virginia and grew to womanhood in Illinois after which she moved with her parents to Texas.

      Eight children were born to this union, six of whom are living. They are J.W. Gentry of Alpine, Texas; Mrs. Marvin Payne of Chickasha; Mrs. S.B. Hall of Garber, Oklahoma; and three sons who live on farms east of Duncan.

      There are 24 grandchildren and five great grand children.

      Mr. Gentry carries his age exceedingly well, as does also Mrs. Gentry and to see them as they go about their daily lives one would never suspect that they had travelled a-down the rosy pathway of love and life together for half a century.

      (GOLDEN WEDDING REPORT Newspaper clipping cut from unidentified Duncan City, Oklahoma newspaper, probably the Banner)

      Ken Harvey had the following to report about their union:

      Will married Mary Evelyn Mounts on Saturday, 12th July 1873 in Grayson Co., Texas. The marriage licence merely states that they were married by M. F. Cole. The marriage licence gives no further information. The day was incorrectly recorded as 13th. The question does arise as to why Will's grandfather, Preacher William Gentry, did not conduct the ceremony.

      His father-in-law William J. Mounts did not approve of young Will as a husband for his daughter Molly. He told his young daughter that "Will was just a Tennessee farm boy, and though pleasant enough, he would never amount to anything." She was not dissuaded.

      Will, it was always generally agreed, was evidently not very ambitious and rather easy going. Much later on, after her husband, Will's, death, Molly used to remonstrate with her young grandson Lewis Adair Payne "Get up and get going, you are just like Will sitting there for half an hour on your bed before making a move."

  • Sources 
    1. [S315] Rainey, Juanita (sparklestree@aol.com) "Juanita's Family Tree" Ver. Jun 23 22:39:06 2003; http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=gentry536, Other researchers show the date of marriage as being in 1873 (Reliability: 3).