News: Looking for females who are in the pure female lines (mother to daughter) from William and Sarah who are willing to do an mtDNA test. Such a person would be descended along an all female line from Mary DEVIN Biggers or Margaret DEVIN Reynolds. The hope is to identify the markers for Sarah SMITH Devin to help identify her parents. Contact the webmaster if interested.

Devin descendant, Stanley Wayne Devin, passed away at 1:30 a.m. on Dec. 4, 2014. He was the last living child of Ira & Oleta Devin.
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    Elizabeth Gentry

    Female 1687 - 1765  (77 years)


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    • Name Elizabeth Gentry  [1
      Born 29 Aug 1687  Saint Peter's Parish, New Kent, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Gender Female 
      Died 1765  Alabama Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Notes 
      • BIRTH: BEF 29 AUG 1687, Saint Peter's Parish, New Kent County, VA
        DEATH: 1765, AL
        BAPTISM: 29 AUG 1687, Saint Peter's Parish, New Kent County, VA
        EVENT: Comment 1: (information from Mack and Alice Dickey, Wichita, Sedgwick County, KS]
        EVENT: Comment 1: The Fifth generation of the Gentry's had settled in almost every Southern Territory, as well as in Ohio, IN, IL and MO. The Gentry's have largely been an agricultural people
        EVENT: Comment 3: interested in their lands and in their flocks and herds, and they were large slave owners until the Civil War ended.
        EVENT: Comment 4: They seem to have preferred their plantations to commercial pursuits or political office Not many of them achieved greatness or national reputations, yet a large number of them have been prominent
        EVENT: Comment 5: in their states and counties We find Gentry's represented in the legislatures of IN, KY, NC, TN and Misouri at various times.
        EVENT: Comment 6: The Gentry's have been good, strong men, honest and upright, good citizens, patriotic and true, generally prosperous and many of them ministers, business men and doctors of marked ability, wealthy an
        EVENT: Comment 7: They have been an honest, conscientious, religious, God-fearing people, loving their families and providing for them well.
      Person ID I6436  Devin Timber | David Devin Pedigree
      Last Modified 21 Mar 2010 

      Father Nicholas Gentry,   b. Abt 1656, Thaxted, Essexshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1736, Hanover County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
      Mother Lucy Cornelius,   b. New Kent County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Fort Nashboro, Davidson, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Married Bef 1685  New Kent County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Family ID F2363  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

      Family James Haggard,   b. 1678, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1770  (Age 92 years) 
      Married 1707  Overwharton, Stafford, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
      Children 
      +1. Granville Haggard,   b. Abt 1728, Overwharton, Stafford, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Powell's Valley, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location
       2. James Haggard,   b. 1709, Overwharton Parish, Staffford, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1743, Prince William County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 35 years)
       3. Richard Haggard,   b. 1711, Overwharton, Stafford, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1762, Fredericksville Parish, Louisa, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 52 years)
       4. William Haggard,   b. 1712, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Overwharton, Stafford, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
       5. John Haggard,   b. Overwharton, Stafford, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Fredericksville, Louisa, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
       6. Mary Haggard,   b. 1715, Overwharton, Stafford, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
       7. Frank French Haggard,   b. 1716, Overwharton, Stafford, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
       8. Nathanial Haggard
       9. Edmund Haggard,   b. Overwharton, Stafford, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1811, Madison County, Kentucky U.S.A. Find all individuals with events at this location
       10. Zachariah Thomas Haggard,   b. 1730, Overwharton, Stafford, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Nov 1760, Southwest Territories, North Carolina Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 30 years)
      Last Modified 21 Mar 2010 
      Family ID F2348  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    • Sources 
      1. [S62980] Friscia, David M., David Friscia, friscia.rootsweb.com viewed 04.Sep.2005.