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Nelson Bush Gentry (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1823-12-23 d. 1912-01-26

Clark County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Gentry and Pauline Gentry. Married to Frances F. Elkin in Madison County, Kentucky, on December 5, 1854. Father of Madison Pleasant Gentry, Pauline B. Gentry, Lucy F. Gentry, William B. Gentry, and Arthur P. Gentry. Farmer in Madison County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned seven enslaved persons in Madison County in 1850. Farmer in Clark County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Clark County in 1860. Farmer in Clark County in 1863.

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Sex
Male
Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, District 1, p. 282A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Madison County, District 2, p. 537.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 803.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Clark County, District 2, p. 331A.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Missouri, Cooper County, Kelly, 429A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Clark County, KY, June-July 1863, p. 6.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records (1852-1910), KDLA, Frankfort, KY, Roll #994047, Madison County Marriages, p. X.

"Nelson Bush Gentry (1823-1912)," Find A Grave, Memorial #98316369, accessed January 29, 2022, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/98316369 .

Citation

Gentry, Nelson Bush. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281581 (November 12, 2026).

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