City: Franklin<\/p>\n
GENTRY, Susie, <\/strong>patriotic worker; daughter of Watson Meredith <\/strong>and Martha A. (Jones) GENTRY;<\/strong> her father is a retired physician and surgeon; paternal grandparents Theophilus Lacy<\/strong> and Theodosia (Poindexter) GENTRY,<\/strong> maternal grandparents Dr. John Ridley<\/strong> and Martha (Lane) JONES<\/strong>; 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\u2019s 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 \u201cOld Glory\u201d 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<\/strong> was placed at Nashville, Tenn., also a tablet to \u201cThe soldiers and site of the battle of the Bluffs\u201d at Nashville, 1910, a tablet to \u201cJohn DONELSON<\/strong> and his party on their arrival at Nashville,: April, 1910; \u00a0a tablet to the 56 revolutionary soldiers buried in Williamson Co., placed on courthouse Franklin, Tenn., Jan. 28, 1910,\u00a0 and other tablets, etc., the tablet to Commodore MAURY<\/strong> placed through her instrumentality on public school building, Franklin, Tenn., is the only memorial erected to him except his tombstone;\u00a0 she is now engaged in an effort looking to the erection of a monument to Commodore MAURY <\/strong>at Nashville, Tenn.; member of the Presbyterian church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4411,182,7,232,634,4419],"tags":[1643,1641,263,1006,4354,911,1642],"class_list":{"0":"post-3207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surname-g","7":"category-tennessee-female-college","8":"category-vanderbilt-university","9":"category-williamson","10":"category-woman","11":"category-x_featured-image-no","12":"tag-donelson","13":"tag-gentry","14":"tag-jones","15":"tag-lane","16":"tag-maury","17":"tag-poindexter","18":"tag-zollikoffer","19":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15135,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/15135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}