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John Martin Gentry (1905)

GENTRY, HODKINSON, SHANNON

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 9/9/2004 at 09:20:30

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 5, 1905

Mrs. S. A. Shannon, who has been visiting her daughter Mrs. Emma Hodkinson in Des Moines, was called home Mon. by the death of her son, John Gentry.
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The Winterset News
Winterset, Iowa
Friday, January 13, 1905

JOHN GENTRY IS DEAD

John Martin Gentry, one of Winterset's oddest characters died at his home in the south part of town Sunday. The funeral occurred Tuesday afternoon the Woodmen having charge.

Gentry had been ill several weeks. He had been subject to epileptic fits since childhood and while sick was seized with a convulsion from which he did not recover. He was a odd character, simple and honest, and his strange ways and peculiarities gave him at least a county reputation. He ran a delivery wagon for years in the city and was engaged in that business at the time of his death.

Gentry was about 55 years old. He was raised on the homestead in Lincoln township and was related to the family of Gentry of national reputation. His simple ways did not keep him from being a student of nature and no one in the county knew the habits of the birds or animals of our native woods and fields better than he.

He leaves a wife and several children. He carried an insurance of $1,000 in the Woodman lodge.
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The Madison County Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 12, 1905
Page 2

Local Tips

One among the earliest of Madison county’s citizens in the person of Jno M. Gentry, died last week at his home in this city. Mr. Gentry was born in this county in 1851 and lived here constantly for fifty-three years. He was a familiar figure on our streets, as for many years he drove an express wagon about the city. He was an honest and hard working man. He leaves a record for faithfulness to duty, trustworthiness and honorable dealings that fortunes cannot buy. He died of apoplexy last Saturday and was buried on Monday by the Woodmen of the World, of which order he was an active member.
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The Madison County Reporter
Winterset, Iowa
Thursday, January 12, 1905
Page 3

Obituary

John M. Gentry was born Jan. 31st, 1857, in Madison county, Iowa, 6 miles west of Winterset, and has lived his entire life here among us.

Death relieved him of suffering Jan. 7th, 1905, at his home in the west part of the city, all of his family being present at this time.

Mr. Gentry was married to Mary Fields, March 7, 1881, and to this union were born five children, who all survive him. He leaves besides his wife and children many friends and neighbors who say he was an honest hard working citizen. He was a loyal member of the W.O.W. Fraternal Society, and his Brethren in the order are ready to pay to his family $1,000 due them.

His children are left fatherless, his wife a widow among his fellows a vacant chair. We can say earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

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