Henry Wilkins Gentry married
Nina 'Easter' Gentry
. .May 22, 1922
Vandervoort, Polk County, Arkansas
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1910 United States Census, White, Polk, AR, 25 Apr 1910
Household Gender Age Birthplace
self Joseph Gentry M 52y Tennessee
wife Mary O Gentry F 30y Alabama
son Henry W Gentry M 8y Arkansas
dau Lucinda Gentry F 6y Arkansas
son Joseph Gentry M 5y Arkansas
son John L Gentry M 4y Arkansas
son Wm J Gentry M 2y Arkansas
son Earl Gentry M y 4m Arkansas

1920 United States Census
White, Polk County, Arkansas
6 Feb 1920
Wilkins, Willie J., M, W, 37, AL, 
Wilkins, Mollie J., F, W, 37, AR,
Gentry, Henry, hired hand, M, W, 18, AR, Farm laborer

1920 Household Gender Age Birthplace
self Joe Gentry M 64y Tennessee
wife Mary Gentry F 39y Alabama
son Henry Gentry M 17y Arkansas
dau Lucy Gentry F 16y Arkansas
son Jodie Gentry M 15y Arkansas
son John L Gentry M 14y Arkansas
son William Gentry M 11y Arkansas
son Earl Gentry M 10y Arkansas

1930 United States Census
Pine Island, Ward 2, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Henry Gentry M 28 Arkansas Farmer
Wife Easter Gentry F 23 Arkansas
Son Oather Gentry M 6 Louisiana
Dau Margerie Gentry F 4 Louisiana
Son Louis Gentry M 2 Louisiana

1940 United States Census
Rodessa, Ward 9, Caddo Parish, Louisiana
Household Gender Age Birthplace
Head Henry W Gentry M 38 Arkansas
Wife Minie Gentry F 34 Arkansas
Son Oather Gentry M 16 Louisiana
Dau Marjorie Gentry F 14 Louisiana
Son Lewis Gentry M 12 Louisiana
Dau Elouise Gentry F 7 Louisiana
Dau Edith Gentry F 3 Louisiana

Children:
. .Luther Amos Gentry (1922 - 1923)
. .Oather Lee (1924 - 2016)
. .Marjorie Gentry Cain (1925 - 2012)
. .Louis Amos (1928 - 2016)
. .Odis James Gentry (1931 - 1933)
. .Elouise Hughes (1933 - 2022)
. .Edith Maxine Malone

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Henry Wilkins Gentry, 77, of 1312 Reeves Street in Mena, died Saturday morning in the Polk County Memorial Hospital. He was born on January 25, 1902 at Hatton, Ark., the son of the late Joe Gentry and Mary Reid Gentry.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Monday morning in the Lakeview Missionary Baptist Church with the Rev. Orval Heath and Rev. Scott Malone officiating. Interment was in the Witherspoon Cemetery at Vandervoort under the direction of the Geyer-Quillin Funeral Home. Graveside masonic rites were in charge of Dallas Lodge no. 128. Pallbearers were Jerry Turix, Joe Vanderbilt, Arnold Lunsford, Guy Selvidge, Curtis Callahan and Alfred Thomas.

Mr. Gentry grew up in the Hatton and Vandervoort areas and was united in marriage to Miss Easter Broomfield on May 22, 1922 at Vandervoort. They moved to Louisiana in 1923 where he worked as an engine operator and carpenter for the Skelly Oil Company. He retired at Skelllytown, Texas in 1963 and returned to Mena where he spent the remainder of his life. Mr. Gentry was a member of the Lakeview Missionary Baptist Church, Dallas Masonic Lodge and the Mena Eastern Star Chapter No. 243.

Survivors are his wife Easter Gentry of Mena; two sons, Oather Lee (Shirley) Gentry of Emmetsburg, Iowa and Louis (Bette) Gentry of Mena; three daughters, Mrs. Marjorie Cain of Grand Prairie, Texas, Mrs. Elouise (Bill) Hughes and Mrs. Maxine (Graley) Malone both of Pampa, Texas; two brothers, Bill Gentry of Kirbyville, Texas and Jack Gentry of Pueblo, Colorado; 20 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren
The Mena Star,
Mena, Arkansas, September 24, 1979

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