Individual Details

1850 Census. Great Salk Lake, Utah Territy, Hh 512
Sanderson Gentry, 23, b. KY
Eliza, 16, b. MO
Christopher, 1, b. MO

1860 Census. San Salvador Twp, San Bernardino Co, CA
Sanderson Gentry, 27, b. KY
ELiza J., 25, b. MO
Cristopher C., 10, b. MO
Wm H, 8 b. Utah Territory
Sarah E, 4, b. Utah Territory
Sanderson G, 2, b. CA

1870 Census. San Bernardino, San Bernardino Co, CA, Hh 545
Sanderson Gentry, 47, farmer, b. KY
Eliza, 36, b. MO
Christopher, 21, b. MO
William, 16, b. Utah
Sarah E., 14, b. Utah
Caroline, 8, b. CA as were the rest of the children
Mary S., 6
Wesley R., 9
Rosa E., 1
George See, 35, Laborer, b. TN


Buried Price City Cemetery, Carbon Co, Utah. Married Eliza Jane Haney.

http://www.carbon-utgenweb.com/history5.html
Sanderson Demar (Dock) Gentry &
Eliza Jane Haney & family

My families ties to the Carbon County area of Utah State centers around my Great Grandmother, Sarah Elizabeth Dickens Gentry, born 29 August 1855 in Springville, Utah, and, her daughter Martha Eveline Sturgis (my Grandmother), born 10 October 1883 in Scofield, Utah.

Sarah Gentry's Father, Sanderson Demar (Dock) Gentry began life about 1827 in Adair County, Kentucky, and departed life in Castle Gate, Carbon County, Utah, in 1897. It is most probably the body of Sanderson Gentry that lies buried beneath a headstone marked "Dox", in the Price City Cemetery, Carbon County, Lot 72, Section A, a lot purchased by Wesley Gentry. Family/Relatives buried on this lot: Henry Christopher Gentry - born 27 Jan 1894 - died 17 Dec 1935; Joseph J. Gentry; Dox Sanderson Gentry; Gene & Jeani Bigelow, twins of Clifford E. & Melvina Lance Bigelow 24 Nov 1940; Robert Elijah Bigelow - born 23 May 1907 - died 10 Feb 1908; Louise Tuttlule Gentry - born 15 Oct 1864 - died 14 Jan 1898; Robert Wesley Gentry - born 10 Sep 1863 - died 17 Feb 1939; May Gentry 1887 - 1962 (shares headstone with A. Elijah Bigelow 1879 - 1947).

Sanderson Gentry's Father, Robert Gentry, was born 3 April 1784, in Fredericksville, Louisa, Virginia to a line of Gentry families going back to the arrival of Nicholas Gentry (my sixth Great Grandfather), a British soldier (Redcoat), arriving in America, 2/11/1677, aboard either the " Rose " or the " Dartmouth." Nicholas and his brother Samuel, being two of 1,130 men sent by the king to quell the " Bacon Rebellion." The Gentry families and their descendents prospered and spread out all across America, and were involved in all of America's history. Gentry' kin can be found on either side of the Revolutionary and Civil Wars – the so-called "Mormon War" in 1838 was no different.

Robert Gentry married Julia Simpson, a native of Washington Co., Georgia, 3 March 1806, in Adair Co., Kentucky. Robert Gentry and Julia Simpson moved their family to Carroll County, Missouri about 1830, just in time for the family to be involved with Joseph Smith and his followers as the Mormon Church was being formed. As far as I have been able to determine, at least three of Sanderson Gentry's sisters: Jane Gentry, Married Riley Stewart; Sara Dickens Gentry, Married William Jackson Stewart; and, Piney Gentry, Married Samuel Mears (or Marrs), were among early members of the Mormon Church. Sanderson's brother, Sampson Gentry, was badly wounded at Dewitt, Carroll County, while a group of citizens he was with were attempting to assist a Capt. Ewing and party, in capturing the Mormon post located there. Sampson Gentry and the other citizens arrived at the Mormon post before Capt. Ewing's party got there, and were mistaken for Mormons by the Capt. Ewing's men and fired on. The members of this Gentry family that joined the Mormon Church moved first to Illinois, then on to Utah as early Mormon Pioneers.

I have found no evidence that Sanderson Demar Gentry ever became a member of the Mormon Church; however, Sanderson, his wife, and their first child arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, in time to be included in the 1850 Census. Sanderson Gentry married a niece, Eliza Jane Haney, born 1831 in Carroll County Missouri, the daughter of William Haney and Permelia Gentry (Sanderson's sister). The first child of this marriage, Christopher Columbus Gentry, was born in Carroll County Missouri in 1849. A second child, William H. Gentry, was born 1852 in Springville, Utah; and, as mentioned above, my Great Grandmother, Sarah Gentry in 1855. The family moved during the late 1850s, accompanying Mormon Settlers to San Bernadino County, California.

Birth	1827	Adair County, Kentucky
Marriage	1849	Adair County, Kentucky - Eliza Jane Haney
Death	Jan 1897	Castle Gate, Carbon County, Utah

Spouse	Eliza Jane Haney (1832 - 1882)
Child	Christopher Columbus Gentry (1849 - 1899)

Father	Robert GENTRY (1784 - 1835)
Mother	Julia Simpson (1785 - 1843)
Sibling	Jane Gentry (1807 - 1848)
Sibling	Sampson Gentry (1813 - )
Sibling	Sarah Dickens Gentry (1815 - 1882)
Sibling	Micah P. "Mickey" Gentry (1817 - 1873)
Sibling	Pina Gentry (1823 - 1907)