Bertha Slaughter

Female6 June 1909–14 December 1977

Brief Life History of Bertha

When Bertha Slaughter was born on 6 June 1909, in Monroe, Kentucky, United States, her father, Oscar P Slaughter, was 27 and her mother, Sella M. Fraizer Slaughter, was 19. She married James Martin Gentry about 1927. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. She lived in Magisterial District 2 Turner, Monroe, Kentucky, United States in 1910 and Tompkinsville, Monroe, Kentucky, United States in 1920. She died on 14 December 1977, in Red Boiling Springs, Macon, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 68, and was buried in Red Boiling Springs, Macon, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

James Martin Gentry
1910–1998
Bertha Slaughter
1909–1977
Marriage: about 1927
Paul Kenneth Gentry
about 1945–about 1945
ElvinLeeGentry

Sources (13)

  • Bertha Slaughter in household of Oscar Slaughter, "United States Census, 1920"
  • Bertha Slaughter Gentry in entry for Wallace J McGuire and Eldean Gentry, "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 "
  • Bertha Slaughter in household of Oscar D Slaughter, "United States Census, 1910"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    about 1927
  • Children (2)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (7)

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    World Events (8)

    1910 · The BSA is Made

    Age 1

    Being modeled after the Boy Scout Association in England, The Boy Scouts of America is a program for young teens to learn traits, life and social skills, and many other things to remind the public about the general act of service and kindness to others.

    1912 · McCreary County Created

    Age 3

    Named after James B. McCreary a Confederate war hero and two time Governor of Kentucky McCreary County was created in 1912.

    1927

    Age 18

    Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

    Name Meaning

    English:

    in East Anglia and Essex, an occupational name from Middle English slaughter ‘butcher’, a derivative of Middle English slaught ‘butchery’ + er, or from a shortened form of the synonymous Middle English slaughterer, a derivative of slaughter ‘butchery’ + -er. Compare Slater 2.

    in Sussex and Surrey a habitational name denoting residence at one or other of several minor placenames such as Slaughter Bridge in Slinfold, Slaughter Bridge in Shipley, Slaughterford (Farm) in Itchingfield, the lost Slaughters in Billingshurst (all Sussex), and Slaughterwicks Barn in Charlwood (Surrey). The names may derive from Middle English slo(gh) ‘sloe, blackthorn’ (Old English slāh) + tre ‘tree’ (Old English trēow), or from Middle English sloghtre, sloghtere ‘slough, mire, muddy place’, or perhaps ‘deep river valley’, or ‘ditch’ (Old English slōhtre). The latter is certainly the etymology of Upper and Lower Slaughter (Gloucestershire) and The Slaughter in English Bicknor (Gloucestershire).

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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