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Ann <I>Hawkins</I> Gentry

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Ann Hawkins Gentry

Birth
Madison County, Kentucky, USA
Death
18 Jan 1870 (aged 78)
Boone County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Columbia, Boone County, Missouri, USA
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She was the postmistress at Columbia, Missouri, for thirty years. She was the first woman in the United States to hold a position as postmistress.

She married Colonel Richard Gentry. They had thirteen children before he was killed in the Florida war in 1837.

(This information is from her son Thomas Benton Gentry's obituary in the KC Star, Feb 24, 1906.)

Thanks to Suzanne Brown, FAG #47595311, for this information.

From her obituary, The Columbia Herald-Statesman (Columbia, Missouri), Friday, January 21, 1870, p. 3:

Richard and Ann were married in 1810.
Gentry County, Missouri is named after her husband Richard Gentry.

Provided by Tom DeNardo, FAG # 767.
She was the postmistress at Columbia, Missouri, for thirty years. She was the first woman in the United States to hold a position as postmistress.

She married Colonel Richard Gentry. They had thirteen children before he was killed in the Florida war in 1837.

(This information is from her son Thomas Benton Gentry's obituary in the KC Star, Feb 24, 1906.)

Thanks to Suzanne Brown, FAG #47595311, for this information.

From her obituary, The Columbia Herald-Statesman (Columbia, Missouri), Friday, January 21, 1870, p. 3:

Richard and Ann were married in 1810.
Gentry County, Missouri is named after her husband Richard Gentry.

Provided by Tom DeNardo, FAG # 767.

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