Only One Life - By Dale Gentry - His Story - His Journey

Chapter One

My Family

1376:

M y story begins in the county of Essex, which is

in England, where my forefathers lived for more than

three hundred years before coming to America. Little

did I realize that one day a Gentry from America would

come to England and start his UK ministry in that very

county.

1690:

Samuel Gentry III came to Virginia from England

in approximately 1690 to help pioneer this great nation.

Eventually his grandsons moved to South Carolina,

Georgia and then to Mississippi. That is the state where

my great grandparents moved to.

1867:

My Grandparents

My paternal grandfather, James Franklin Gentry,

was born in Mississippi. He later moved to Texas, where

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