City: Franklin
GENTRY, Susie, patriotic worker; daughter of Watson Meredith and Martha A. (Jones) GENTRY; her father is a retired physician and surgeon; paternal grandparents Theophilus Lacy and Theodosia (Poindexter) GENTRY, maternal grandparents Dr. John Ridley and Martha (Lane) JONES; was educated by private instructors and at Battle Ground Academy, a preparatory high school for Vanderbilt University, graduated at the Tenn. Female College; she is an artist, musician and author; member of the Colonial Dames, D. A. R., U. S. D. of 1812, Watauga Association, Tenn. Women’s Historical Association, Hermitage Assn., Pen Women of America, etc.; founder of Watauga Assn. State Vice-Recent of D. A. R., First State Sec. U. S. D. of 1812, first State Registrar U. D. C., Organizing Regent “Old Glory” Chapter D. A. R.; has the first and only hand painted gourd collection in the world, upon which she won a gold medal at St. Louis exposition; has located the graves of 402 revolutionary soldiers in Tenn., she was a pioneer in that work; at her suggestion and through her efforts a tablet in commemoration of Gen. Felix K. ZOLLIKOFFER was placed at Nashville, Tenn., also a tablet to “The soldiers and site of the battle of the Bluffs” at Nashville, 1910, a tablet to “John DONELSON and his party on their arrival at Nashville,: April, 1910; a tablet to the 56 revolutionary soldiers buried in Williamson Co., placed on courthouse Franklin, Tenn., Jan. 28, 1910, and other tablets, etc., the tablet to Commodore MAURY placed through her instrumentality on public school building, Franklin, Tenn., is the only memorial erected to him except his tombstone; she is now engaged in an effort looking to the erection of a monument to Commodore MAURY at Nashville, Tenn.; member of the Presbyterian church.
