Author: Richard Gentry

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-09-17

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 9781333640170

Excerpt from The Gentry Family in America, 1676 to 1909: Including Notes on the Following Families Related to the Gentrys: Claiborne, Harris, Hawkins, Robinson, Smith, Wyatt, Sharp, Fulkerson, Butler, Bush, Blythe, Pabody, Noble, Haggard, and Tindall A comprehensive record of a family, a faithful history and genealogy, printed and illustrated in a book, distributed widely among the family, and deposited in the libraries of the country, is a greater benefit, and more lasting, than monuments of granite or marble. It will preserve for us the Spirit, life stories, heroic deeds, and even the pictures of some of our pioneer ancestors. In books lies the soul of the whole past time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.