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- Isaac Gentry (also spelled Jentry) served in Captain Thomas D.
Carr's Company of Georgia Militia in the Regiment commanded by Col.
Ignatius A. Few. Isaac entered service September 24, 1814 at Camp
Jackson for a 6 month enlistment. Isaac was at Camp Covington February
28, 1815. Isaac was discharged from Camp Covington on March 02, 1815.
The distance from Camp Covington to Isaac's home was 150 miles.
A description of the uniform that Isaac Gentry would have been
issued during his service in the Georgia Militia War of 1812: Georgia
: Georgian infantry wore a plain blue coatee with brass buttons, white
pant with black gaiters, and a First Model shako with red festooning
and a red over white plumette in front. Crossbelts were white, other
equipment issue were standard issue.
Isaac Gentry was a soldier of General Andrew Jackson during the
Creek Indian War of 1813-1814, or the larger War of 1812-1815 of which
the war with the Creek Indians was a part. He was given a land bounty
by the National Government by virtue of his service in this war. He
chose land near the headwaters of Oakmulgee Creek along about the time
many others were settling in this locality. He settled in the environs
of what became the Randolph community. He married here in Cahawba
County, sometime during the year 1819, Sarah Hubbard Giles, a widow
with two or three children, her husband having died before her removal
here. Her mother, Mary Giles, came along with other members of her
family to this new land. Isaac Gentry became the brother-in-law to
John Giles, who settled on Mulberry Creek, and also to Richard Whatley
and John Littlejohn, the first being the son of Mary Giles and the
latter two being sons-in-law.
Isaac Gentry was prosperous, acquired much land, and farmed with
some slave labor. He accumulated a sizeable estate, as his will
testifies.
From the Administrators Book C: (Page 53), Taken from one of the
"Alabama Records" - by Gandrud. "(page 412). Isaac Gentry, guardian
for Elizabeth Hubbard, Ausmus Hubbard and William Hubbard, infants of
Davis Hubbard, deceased. 6 July 1829."
According to Mitchlene Shaddix, Rt. 6, Box 2930, Cullman, Alabama
35055, phone: 334-734-4815. Sarah Giles was married to Davis Hubbard.
Davis and Sarah had a daughter Elizabeth "Betty" Hubbard. Elizabeth
Hubbard married Madison Rasberry. Mitchlene Shaddix says she has a big
oval picture of Elizabeth "Betty" Hubbard. This information was given
to me in 1995.
(Source: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/3071/gentry.html)
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1785 - 1853 (68 years)