"The Life of Ernest Taylor Gentry, by his eldest son, Alvin Lee Gentry-Dec. 1976, By Moser Amy Louise· 25 July 2013 ·
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Ernest Taylor Gentry was born 9 Feb. 1888 in Panaca, Lincoln, Nevada, to Edward Gentry and Mary Davis. Edward Gentry was English, having been born in Mundon, Essex county, England, 23 August, 1847 and Mary Davis was born in Bountiful, Davis county, Utah, 22 August, 1857 of English descent. It is a coincidence that Ernest's grandfather, Samuel Gentry, of Purleigh, Essex County, England married a girl by the name of Elizabeth Davis, of Prittlewell, Essex County, England. Incidentally, my wife, Beanna, and I visited England in 1969 and endeavored to locate Mundon (also known as Mundon Hill) which has evidently disappeared because of World War II bombing. It was near the English Channel and directly in the path of German bombers flying from Belgium or Germany. My father never said a great deal about his childhood in Panaca. His father was the "village" blacksmith and Dad did help him in the shop. While his mother remained quite active in the Church, singing in the ward choir (possessing a beautiful alto voice), working in Relief Society and furnishing home-made bread each Sunday for the Sacrament Service over a period of many years, Dad's father became inactive and all of his sons followed him. Ernest completed grade school in Panaca and, like his older brother, Edward, tried his luck at prospecting, without much success. There was considerable excitement in Nevada during his early years because of rich mineral strikes and subsequent boom towns such as Delamar, Goldfield and Tonopah. There was also a huge ore-reduction mill located at Bullionville, about two miles west of Panaca, where ore from Pioche, about 12 miles northward, was smelted, and which employed several hundred men. Father prospected in the area of Rhyolites, Nevada, and told about obtaining enough money to get married by selling for $1,000 a claim he had staked out near Rhyolite. This is now pretty much a ghost town, located west of the town of Beatty, Nevada, near Death Valley. Realizing the necessity of learning a trade in order to make a living, Father went to the Moler Barber College,in Salt Lake City, and became the first and only regular barber in Panaca about the year 1907. He established a billiard room with card tables in connection with the barber shop. Some of my early recollections are of Dad standing behind the barber chair working on somebody's hair, or shaving someone, and myself selling candy, tobacco and other items as well as running the card games and playing "pea" pool against all comers. As the Lincoln County High School was located in our town and students came from as far away as Alamo (some 65 miles to the west), we were quite busy from September to May. I was between 8 and 13 years of age at that time. Dad was baptized 6 September, 1896. He and Mother were married 25 February, 1907, shortly after his 19th birthday. Their marriage was sealed in the St. George Temple on 11 November, 1924. All of their living children (there had been eight born to them, but two had died) accompanied them. Two more were born later. About the year 1916 Dad purchased a new Ford Model "T" touring automobile, one of the very first in Panaca. I was eight years of age and was soon driving the car. From the age of ten until I left home at sixteen (the day after graduating from high school on 15 May, 1925) Dad rented the Ford with myself as the driver, to anyone who wanted quick transportation anywhere in southern Nevada or Utah. He also sent me, after taking me with him the first few times, on many trips to the nearby towns of Pioche and Caliente with the Ford loaded down with fresh vegetables from his garden. My job was to sell everything from house to house and bring the receipts to him. He prided himself on his farming ability, usually having the earliest and best sweet corn in town. He also had farm animals such as chickens and pigs, a cow and later a horse. I remember well having to milk "ole Brin" morning and night; also chopping and getting in the cedar wood for the kitchen cook stove and the heater in the living room. In 1917 Dad moved his family to Caliente, Nevada 15 miles south of Panaca, where he opened a Barber Shop. Evidently this venture was not too successful. Also, my younger sister, Rosamond, born in 1916, became ill while we were in Caliente and died there on 7 November, 1919. This seemed to hit Dad quite hard. He moved back to Panaca and resumed barbering, farming, etc. However, he began to realize something was wrong in his life. He changed his way of living by throwing out the card tables, closing the pool room discontinuing the use of tobacco himself as well as the selling of tobacco and establishing a grocery store. He built a small adjacent room for his barbering activities. Dad was a member of the Nevada State Legislature, meeting in Carson City in a 1921 for three months. In 1962 we had Mother and Dad fly out to San Carlos (his first airplane ride) from Las Vegas to visit us for a few days. We drove them back, staying in Tahoe overnight and visiting the State Capitol in Carson City, where Dad greatly enjoyed showing Mother where he sat 41 years before when the State Legislature was in session. My father became active in the Church shortly after moving back from Caliente and was asked to be Superintendent of the M.I.A. He served in this position for three years. I was Secretary of the Y.M.M.I.A. during that time (age 14-16). He also served six years in the Superintendency of the PanaceaWard Sunday School, both as a counselor and as the Superintendent. He was a Counselor to Bishop Frank E. Wadsworth for one year (1924) and to Bishop Garland Hollingshead for five years. He served with distinction for ten years on the Uvada Stake High Council.
After retiring from barbering and merchandising, Dad and Mother were called to be Ordinance workers in the St. George Temple in January of 1959. He soon learned all of the procedures and was happy to serve in various capacities. This was when there were no films being used in the temple and all participants were "live". He and Mother moved to St. George, living in a basement apartment near the Temple, until 1963 at which time they moved into a home on the corner of 2nd South and 2nd East which Beanna and I provided for them. However, Dad's heart was causing him considerable discomfort and gave out on 22 June, 1964. He was buried in the Panaca Cemetery. It was evident that he knew death was near because he left an outline for his funeral services. He did not leave any insurance nor a will. (Taken from "The Gentry History from Essex England to the Western United States", 1821-1982. Compiled by Mary Reid Edwards and Lillian Gentry Barnum, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, call number 929.273 G298e)
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Ernest Taylor Gentry was born 9 Feb. 1888 in Panaca, Lincoln, Nevada, to Edward Gentry and Mary Davis. Edward Gentry was English, having been born in Mundon, Essex county, England, 23 August, 1847 and Mary Davis was born in Bountiful, Davis county, Utah, 22 August, 1857 of English descent. It is a coincidence that Ernest's grandfather, Samuel Gentry, of Purleigh, Essex County, England married a girl by the name of Elizabeth Davis, of Prittlewell, Essex County, England. Incidentally, my wife, Beanna, and I visited England in 1969 and endeavored to locate Mundon (also known as Mundon Hill) which has evidently disappeared because of World War II bombing. It was near the English Channel and directly in the path of German bombers flying from Belgium or Germany. My father never said a great deal about his childhood in Panaca. His father was the "village" blacksmith and Dad did help him in the shop. While his mother remained quite active in the Church, singing in the ward choir (possessing a beautiful alto voice), working in Relief Society and furnishing home-made bread each Sunday for the Sacrament Service over a period of many years, Dad's father became inactive and all of his sons followed him. Ernest completed grade school in Panaca and, like his older brother, Edward, tried his luck at prospecting, without much success. There was considerable excitement in Nevada during his early years because of rich mineral strikes and subsequent boom towns such as Delamar, Goldfield and Tonopah. There was also a huge ore-reduction mill located at Bullionville, about two miles west of Panaca, where ore from Pioche, about 12 miles northward, was smelted, and which employed several hundred men. Father prospected in the area of Rhyolites, Nevada, and told about obtaining enough money to get married by selling for $1,000 a claim he had staked out near Rhyolite. This is now pretty much a ghost town, located west of the town of Beatty, Nevada, near Death Valley. Realizing the necessity of learning a trade in order to make a living, Father went to the Moler Barber College,in Salt Lake City, and became the first and only regular barber in Panaca about the year 1907. He established a billiard room with card tables in connection with the barber shop. Some of my early recollections are of Dad standing behind the barber chair working on somebody's hair, or shaving someone, and myself selling candy, tobacco and other items as well as running the card games and playing "pea" pool against all comers. As the Lincoln County High School was located in our town and students came from as far away as Alamo (some 65 miles to the west), we were quite busy from September to May. I was between 8 and 13 years of age at that time. Dad was baptized 6 September, 1896. He and Mother were married 25 February, 1907, shortly after his 19th birthday. Their marriage was sealed in the St. George Temple on 11 November, 1924. All of their living children (there had been eight born to them, but two had died) accompanied them. Two more were born later. About the year 1916 Dad purchased a new Ford Model "T" touring automobile, one of the very first in Panaca. I was eight years of age and was soon driving the car. From the age of ten until I left home at sixteen (the day after graduating from high school on 15 May, 1925) Dad rented the Ford with myself as the driver, to anyone who wanted quick transportation anywhere in southern Nevada or Utah. He also sent me, after taking me with him the first few times, on many trips to the nearby towns of Pioche and Caliente with the Ford loaded down with fresh vegetables from his garden. My job was to sell everything from house to house and bring the receipts to him. He prided himself on his farming ability, usually having the earliest and best sweet corn in town. He also had farm animals such as chickens and pigs, a cow and later a horse. I remember well having to milk "ole Brin" morning and night; also chopping and getting in the cedar wood for the kitchen cook stove and the heater in the living room. In 1917 Dad moved his family to Caliente, Nevada 15 miles south of Panaca, where he opened a Barber Shop. Evidently this venture was not too successful. Also, my younger sister, Rosamond, born in 1916, became ill while we were in Caliente and died there on 7 November, 1919. This seemed to hit Dad quite hard. He moved back to Panaca and resumed barbering, farming, etc. However, he began to realize something was wrong in his life. He changed his way of living by throwing out the card tables, closing the pool room discontinuing the use of tobacco himself as well as the selling of tobacco and establishing a grocery store. He built a small adjacent room for his barbering activities. Dad was a member of the Nevada State Legislature, meeting in Carson City in a 1921 for three months. In 1962 we had Mother and Dad fly out to San Carlos (his first airplane ride) from Las Vegas to visit us for a few days. We drove them back, staying in Tahoe overnight and visiting the State Capitol in Carson City, where Dad greatly enjoyed showing Mother where he sat 41 years before when the State Legislature was in session. My father became active in the Church shortly after moving back from Caliente and was asked to be Superintendent of the M.I.A. He served in this position for three years. I was Secretary of the Y.M.M.I.A. during that time (age 14-16). He also served six years in the Superintendency of the PanaceaWard Sunday School, both as a counselor and as the Superintendent. He was a Counselor to Bishop Frank E. Wadsworth for one year (1924) and to Bishop Garland Hollingshead for five years. He served with distinction for ten years on the Uvada Stake High Council.
After retiring from barbering and merchandising, Dad and Mother were called to be Ordinance workers in the St. George Temple in January of 1959. He soon learned all of the procedures and was happy to serve in various capacities. This was when there were no films being used in the temple and all participants were "live". He and Mother moved to St. George, living in a basement apartment near the Temple, until 1963 at which time they moved into a home on the corner of 2nd South and 2nd East which Beanna and I provided for them. However, Dad's heart was causing him considerable discomfort and gave out on 22 June, 1964. He was buried in the Panaca Cemetery. It was evident that he knew death was near because he left an outline for his funeral services. He did not leave any insurance nor a will. (Taken from "The Gentry History from Essex England to the Western United States", 1821-1982. Compiled by Mary Reid Edwards and Lillian Gentry Barnum, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, call number 929.273 G298e)
"The Life of Ernest Taylor Gentry, by his eldest son, Alvin Lee Gentry-Dec. 1976, By Moser Amy Louise· 25 July 2013 ·
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Ernest Taylor Gentry was born 9 Feb. 1888 in Panaca, Lincoln, Nevada, to Edward Gentry and Mary Davis. Edward Gentry was English, having been born in Mundon, Essex county, England, 23 August, 1847 and Mary Davis was born in Bountiful, Davis county, Utah, 22 August, 1857 of English descent. It is a coincidence that Ernest's grandfather, Samuel Gentry, of Purleigh, Essex County, England married a girl by the name of Elizabeth Davis, of Prittlewell, Essex County, England. Incidentally, my wife, Beanna, and I visited England in 1969 and endeavored to locate Mundon (also known as Mundon Hill) which has evidently disappeared because of World War II bombing. It was near the English Channel and directly in the path of German bombers flying from Belgium or Germany. My father never said a great deal about his childhood in Panaca. His father was the "village" blacksmith and Dad did help him in the shop. While his mother remained quite active in the Church, singing in the ward choir (possessing a beautiful alto voice), working in Relief Society and furnishing home-made bread each Sunday for the Sacrament Service over a period of many years, Dad's father became inactive and all of his sons followed him. Ernest completed grade school in Panaca and, like his older brother, Edward, tried his luck at prospecting, without much success. There was considerable excitement in Nevada during his early years because of rich mineral strikes and subsequent boom towns such as Delamar, Goldfield and Tonopah. There was also a huge ore-reduction mill located at Bullionville, about two miles west of Panaca, where ore from Pioche, about 12 miles northward, was smelted, and which employed several hundred men. Father prospected in the area of Rhyolites, Nevada, and told about obtaining enough money to get married by selling for $1,000 a claim he had staked out near Rhyolite. This is now pretty much a ghost town, located west of the town of Beatty, Nevada, near Death Valley. Realizing the necessity of learning a trade in order to make a living, Father went to the Moler Barber College,in Salt Lake City, and became the first and only regular barber in Panaca about the year 1907. He established a billiard room with card tables in connection with the barber shop. Some of my early recollections are of Dad standing behind the barber chair working on somebody's hair, or shaving someone, and myself selling candy, tobacco and other items as well as running the card games and playing "pea" pool against all comers. As the Lincoln County High School was located in our town and students came from as far away as Alamo (some 65 miles to the west), we were quite busy from September to May. I was between 8 and 13 years of age at that time. Dad was baptized 6 September, 1896. He and Mother were married 25 February, 1907, shortly after his 19th birthday. Their marriage was sealed in the St. George Temple on 11 November, 1924. All of their living children (there had been eight born to them, but two had died) accompanied them. Two more were born later. About the year 1916 Dad purchased a new Ford Model "T" touring automobile, one of the very first in Panaca. I was eight years of age and was soon driving the car. From the age of ten until I left home at sixteen (the day after graduating from high school on 15 May, 1925) Dad rented the Ford with myself as the driver, to anyone who wanted quick transportation anywhere in southern Nevada or Utah. He also sent me, after taking me with him the first few times, on many trips to the nearby towns of Pioche and Caliente with the Ford loaded down with fresh vegetables from his garden. My job was to sell everything from house to house and bring the receipts to him. He prided himself on his farming ability, usually having the earliest and best sweet corn in town. He also had farm animals such as chickens and pigs, a cow and later a horse. I remember well having to milk "ole Brin" morning and night; also chopping and getting in the cedar wood for the kitchen cook stove and the heater in the living room. In 1917 Dad moved his family to Caliente, Nevada 15 miles south of Panaca, where he opened a Barber Shop. Evidently this venture was not too successful. Also, my younger sister, Rosamond, born in 1916, became ill while we were in Caliente and died there on 7 November, 1919. This seemed to hit Dad quite hard. He moved back to Panaca and resumed barbering, farming, etc. However, he began to realize something was wrong in his life. He changed his way of living by throwing out the card tables, closing the pool room discontinuing the use of tobacco himself as well as the selling of tobacco and establishing a grocery store. He built a small adjacent room for his barbering activities. Dad was a member of the Nevada State Legislature, meeting in Carson City in a 1921 for three months. In 1962 we had Mother and Dad fly out to San Carlos (his first airplane ride) from Las Vegas to visit us for a few days. We drove them back, staying in Tahoe overnight and visiting the State Capitol in Carson City, where Dad greatly enjoyed showing Mother where he sat 41 years before when the State Legislature was in session. My father became active in the Church shortly after moving back from Caliente and was asked to be Superintendent of the M.I.A. He served in this position for three years. I was Secretary of the Y.M.M.I.A. during that time (age 14-16). He also served six years in the Superintendency of the PanaceaWard Sunday School, both as a counselor and as the Superintendent. He was a Counselor to Bishop Frank E. Wadsworth for one year (1924) and to Bishop Garland Hollingshead for five years. He served with distinction for ten years on the Uvada Stake High Council.
After retiring from barbering and merchandising, Dad and Mother were called to be Ordinance workers in the St. George Temple in January of 1959. He soon learned all of the procedures and was happy to serve in various capacities. This was when there were no films being used in the temple and all participants were "live". He and Mother moved to St. George, living in a basement apartment near the Temple, until 1963 at which time they moved into a home on the corner of 2nd South and 2nd East which Beanna and I provided for them. However, Dad's heart was causing him considerable discomfort and gave out on 22 June, 1964. He was buried in the Panaca Cemetery. It was evident that he knew death was near because he left an outline for his funeral services. He did not leave any insurance nor a will. (Taken from "The Gentry History from Essex England to the Western United States", 1821-1982. Compiled by Mary Reid Edwards and Lillian Gentry Barnum, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, call number 929.273 G298e)
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Ernest Taylor Gentry was born 9 Feb. 1888 in Panaca, Lincoln, Nevada, to Edward Gentry and Mary Davis. Edward Gentry was English, having been born in Mundon, Essex county, England, 23 August, 1847 and Mary Davis was born in Bountiful, Davis county, Utah, 22 August, 1857 of English descent. It is a coincidence that Ernest's grandfather, Samuel Gentry, of Purleigh, Essex County, England married a girl by the name of Elizabeth Davis, of Prittlewell, Essex County, England. Incidentally, my wife, Beanna, and I visited England in 1969 and endeavored to locate Mundon (also known as Mundon Hill) which has evidently disappeared because of World War II bombing. It was near the English Channel and directly in the path of German bombers flying from Belgium or Germany. My father never said a great deal about his childhood in Panaca. His father was the "village" blacksmith and Dad did help him in the shop. While his mother remained quite active in the Church, singing in the ward choir (possessing a beautiful alto voice), working in Relief Society and furnishing home-made bread each Sunday for the Sacrament Service over a period of many years, Dad's father became inactive and all of his sons followed him. Ernest completed grade school in Panaca and, like his older brother, Edward, tried his luck at prospecting, without much success. There was considerable excitement in Nevada during his early years because of rich mineral strikes and subsequent boom towns such as Delamar, Goldfield and Tonopah. There was also a huge ore-reduction mill located at Bullionville, about two miles west of Panaca, where ore from Pioche, about 12 miles northward, was smelted, and which employed several hundred men. Father prospected in the area of Rhyolites, Nevada, and told about obtaining enough money to get married by selling for $1,000 a claim he had staked out near Rhyolite. This is now pretty much a ghost town, located west of the town of Beatty, Nevada, near Death Valley. Realizing the necessity of learning a trade in order to make a living, Father went to the Moler Barber College,in Salt Lake City, and became the first and only regular barber in Panaca about the year 1907. He established a billiard room with card tables in connection with the barber shop. Some of my early recollections are of Dad standing behind the barber chair working on somebody's hair, or shaving someone, and myself selling candy, tobacco and other items as well as running the card games and playing "pea" pool against all comers. As the Lincoln County High School was located in our town and students came from as far away as Alamo (some 65 miles to the west), we were quite busy from September to May. I was between 8 and 13 years of age at that time. Dad was baptized 6 September, 1896. He and Mother were married 25 February, 1907, shortly after his 19th birthday. Their marriage was sealed in the St. George Temple on 11 November, 1924. All of their living children (there had been eight born to them, but two had died) accompanied them. Two more were born later. About the year 1916 Dad purchased a new Ford Model "T" touring automobile, one of the very first in Panaca. I was eight years of age and was soon driving the car. From the age of ten until I left home at sixteen (the day after graduating from high school on 15 May, 1925) Dad rented the Ford with myself as the driver, to anyone who wanted quick transportation anywhere in southern Nevada or Utah. He also sent me, after taking me with him the first few times, on many trips to the nearby towns of Pioche and Caliente with the Ford loaded down with fresh vegetables from his garden. My job was to sell everything from house to house and bring the receipts to him. He prided himself on his farming ability, usually having the earliest and best sweet corn in town. He also had farm animals such as chickens and pigs, a cow and later a horse. I remember well having to milk "ole Brin" morning and night; also chopping and getting in the cedar wood for the kitchen cook stove and the heater in the living room. In 1917 Dad moved his family to Caliente, Nevada 15 miles south of Panaca, where he opened a Barber Shop. Evidently this venture was not too successful. Also, my younger sister, Rosamond, born in 1916, became ill while we were in Caliente and died there on 7 November, 1919. This seemed to hit Dad quite hard. He moved back to Panaca and resumed barbering, farming, etc. However, he began to realize something was wrong in his life. He changed his way of living by throwing out the card tables, closing the pool room discontinuing the use of tobacco himself as well as the selling of tobacco and establishing a grocery store. He built a small adjacent room for his barbering activities. Dad was a member of the Nevada State Legislature, meeting in Carson City in a 1921 for three months. In 1962 we had Mother and Dad fly out to San Carlos (his first airplane ride) from Las Vegas to visit us for a few days. We drove them back, staying in Tahoe overnight and visiting the State Capitol in Carson City, where Dad greatly enjoyed showing Mother where he sat 41 years before when the State Legislature was in session. My father became active in the Church shortly after moving back from Caliente and was asked to be Superintendent of the M.I.A. He served in this position for three years. I was Secretary of the Y.M.M.I.A. during that time (age 14-16). He also served six years in the Superintendency of the PanaceaWard Sunday School, both as a counselor and as the Superintendent. He was a Counselor to Bishop Frank E. Wadsworth for one year (1924) and to Bishop Garland Hollingshead for five years. He served with distinction for ten years on the Uvada Stake High Council.
After retiring from barbering and merchandising, Dad and Mother were called to be Ordinance workers in the St. George Temple in January of 1959. He soon learned all of the procedures and was happy to serve in various capacities. This was when there were no films being used in the temple and all participants were "live". He and Mother moved to St. George, living in a basement apartment near the Temple, until 1963 at which time they moved into a home on the corner of 2nd South and 2nd East which Beanna and I provided for them. However, Dad's heart was causing him considerable discomfort and gave out on 22 June, 1964. He was buried in the Panaca Cemetery. It was evident that he knew death was near because he left an outline for his funeral services. He did not leave any insurance nor a will. (Taken from "The Gentry History from Essex England to the Western United States", 1821-1982. Compiled by Mary Reid Edwards and Lillian Gentry Barnum, Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, call number 929.273 G298e)
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