On June 12, 1812 Watson Gentry came forward at the Wilson Creek Meeting House with a letter from a Baptist Church called Sardis in the County of Rockingham, State of North Carolina and was received in full fellowship. He built an unusually fine log house about one mile west of College Grove, TN.
Watson and Theodosia Poindexter Gentry were the parents of eleven children. Eight he named in his will the others are identified by their gravestone in the family cemetery. The seven sons were Joseph, Thomas, William, Theophilus, Charles, James, and Meredith Poindexter Gentry. Of the daughters there were Elizabeth Dalton, Mary Rogers, Jemima Scales and Tabitha who married Dr. John M. Watson.
On June 12, 1812 Watson Gentry came forward at the Wilson Creek Meeting House with a letter from a Baptist Church called Sardis in the County of Rockingham, State of North Carolina and was received in full fellowship. He built an unusually fine log house about one mile west of College Grove, TN.
Watson and Theodosia Poindexter Gentry were the parents of eleven children. Eight he named in his will the others are identified by their gravestone in the family cemetery. The seven sons were Joseph, Thomas, William, Theophilus, Charles, James, and Meredith Poindexter Gentry. Of the daughters there were Elizabeth Dalton, Mary Rogers, Jemima Scales and Tabitha who married Dr. John M. Watson.
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