Gentry County, first formed in 1841, and fully organized in 1845, is named for Mo. Militia Maj. Gen. Richard Gentry, Colonel of Volunteers in the Florida War, hero of the Battle of Lake Okeechobee, 1837, in which he was killed. A roadside park in . . . — — Map (db m66516) HM
Built by Jesse and Polly Embry Harris four miles East of Jamesport between 1830 and 1836. They arrived with ten children and one slave. Reconstructed by the Harris family in 1985. The last Harris owners were Dr. George Dowe Harris, a Jamesport . . . — — Map (db m67337) HM
Andrew County, organized 1841, is one of 6 counties in the Indian Platte Purchase Territory annexed to Missouri, 1837. Named for Andrew Jackson Davis, St. Louis editor, the county was first settled in the middle 1830’s. Pioneers were from Ohio, . . . — — Map (db m39756) HM
Nancy Ann Alien was born November 14, 1832, in Gentry County, Missouri. Her parents were Robert and Marian (Crawford) Ready, natives of Kentucky where they were married in 1826. Nancy was the oldest of four children. Her sister Elenor, "Elen", . . . — — Map (db m148180) HM
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