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Identifier
10011266
Description
"Uncle" Alec [or Alex] Gentry and "Aunt" Mourn [or Morn] Gentry, former enslaved persons living in Hamilton County, thought to be brother and sister (about 80 years old), n.d. [ca. 1921]. The two were formerly enslaved by Frederick Browder Gentry, a captain who fought in the battle of San Jacinto and is buried in the Hamilton Cemetery (sometimes called the Graves-Gentry Cemetery). Captain Gentry brought the siblings with him when he moved to Hamilton County in 1855 and operated a grist mill and later a small lumber mill. Alec accompanied Francis Marion Graves as a cook on the cattle drive Mr. Graves made to California to sell his cattle and those of his father-in-law, Capt. Gentry, in 1868. They spent two years making the trip there and back. Mourn was the widow of an indigenous person named Indian Bob. She is buried on the Pete Fuqua farm near Gentry's Mill. [Note: the two were referred to "Aunt" and "Uncle," this terminology was a form of address (primarily in the South) used with older enslaved (and formerly enslaved) peoples; at the time, African American people were not addressed by white people as "Mr." or "Mrs."]
Archival Date
1921 (Approximately)
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-4-1-1
Original Format
Prints, Black & White
File Format
JPG
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Subjects
Slavery
Names
Gentry, Alex; Gentry, Morn
Subjects
Slavery