Frank M. Gentry

GENTRY, SHAFER

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson (email)
Date: 10/3/2004 at 22:18:42

F. M. Gentry, Union twp., farmer, Sec. 14; P.O. Winterset; born in Putnam county, Indiana in 1839, and came to this county in 1846; owns 80 acres of land; has held offices of town trustee and school director; he married Miss Nancy Shafer, May 28, 1863; she was born in Indiana; has seven children: Joseph L., Wm. E., Francis A., James H., Edward L. V., Sarah E. and Theodore M.

Taken from the book, "The History of Madison County, Iowa, 1879" page 608