Marker shared with Martha A. Jones Gentry, Sallie Gentry and Susie Gentry.
Son of Theophilus and Rebecca (Sappington) Gentry
Taken from the book Portraits of Williamson County 2010 by Rick Warwick submitted by Linda Moore Mora
Taken from the book Historic Williamson County Old Homes and Sites by Virginia Bowman summitted by LindaMooreMora
On both sides of the house Dr. Genry came of distinguished ancestry. His maternal great grandfather was Dr. Mark Brown Sappington, Nashville's first physician who had a hewn log office there in 1785. Dr. Gentry's grandfather Dr. Thomas Sappington married Elizabeth Stockett. She traced her ancestry back to Charles II.
Dr. Gentry was a soldier and a physician. After interning at Belle Vue Hospital in New York he returned to TN and married Martha Jones the daughter of Dr. John Ridley Jones of Shelbyville. He served as a surgeon throughout the war 1863-1865 he was surgeon in chief of hospitals in Montgomery AL. After the war he settled his family in Franklin, TN.
Son of Theophilus and Rebecca (Sappington) Gentry
Taken from the book Portraits of Williamson County 2010 by Rick Warwick submitted by Linda Moore Mora
Taken from the book Historic Williamson County Old Homes and Sites by Virginia Bowman summitted by LindaMooreMora
On both sides of the house Dr. Genry came of distinguished ancestry. His maternal great grandfather was Dr. Mark Brown Sappington, Nashville's first physician who had a hewn log office there in 1785. Dr. Gentry's grandfather Dr. Thomas Sappington married Elizabeth Stockett. She traced her ancestry back to Charles II.
Dr. Gentry was a soldier and a physician. After interning at Belle Vue Hospital in New York he returned to TN and married Martha Jones the daughter of Dr. John Ridley Jones of Shelbyville. He served as a surgeon throughout the war 1863-1865 he was surgeon in chief of hospitals in Montgomery AL. After the war he settled his family in Franklin, TN.
Marker shared with Martha A. Jones Gentry, Sallie Gentry and Susie Gentry.
Son of Theophilus and Rebecca (Sappington) Gentry
Taken from the book Portraits of Williamson County 2010 by Rick Warwick submitted by Linda Moore Mora
Taken from the book Historic Williamson County Old Homes and Sites by Virginia Bowman summitted by LindaMooreMora
On both sides of the house Dr. Genry came of distinguished ancestry. His maternal great grandfather was Dr. Mark Brown Sappington, Nashville's first physician who had a hewn log office there in 1785. Dr. Gentry's grandfather Dr. Thomas Sappington married Elizabeth Stockett. She traced her ancestry back to Charles II.
Dr. Gentry was a soldier and a physician. After interning at Belle Vue Hospital in New York he returned to TN and married Martha Jones the daughter of Dr. John Ridley Jones of Shelbyville. He served as a surgeon throughout the war 1863-1865 he was surgeon in chief of hospitals in Montgomery AL. After the war he settled his family in Franklin, TN.
Son of Theophilus and Rebecca (Sappington) Gentry
Taken from the book Portraits of Williamson County 2010 by Rick Warwick submitted by Linda Moore Mora
Taken from the book Historic Williamson County Old Homes and Sites by Virginia Bowman summitted by LindaMooreMora
On both sides of the house Dr. Genry came of distinguished ancestry. His maternal great grandfather was Dr. Mark Brown Sappington, Nashville's first physician who had a hewn log office there in 1785. Dr. Gentry's grandfather Dr. Thomas Sappington married Elizabeth Stockett. She traced her ancestry back to Charles II.
Dr. Gentry was a soldier and a physician. After interning at Belle Vue Hospital in New York he returned to TN and married Martha Jones the daughter of Dr. John Ridley Jones of Shelbyville. He served as a surgeon throughout the war 1863-1865 he was surgeon in chief of hospitals in Montgomery AL. After the war he settled his family in Franklin, TN.
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He was a surgeon and physican in the Confederate army, and practiced for fifty years
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