When Allen Gentry was born about 1825, in Roane, Tennessee, United States, his father, Shadrack H. Gentry, was 33 and his mother, Rebecca Ballard, was 27. He married Lavenia about 1847, in Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He lived in Jackson, Alabama, United States in 1850 and Bibb, Alabama, United States in 1860. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 2 July 1863, in Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 39.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
Being a monumental event in the Texas Revolution, The Battle of the Alamo was a thirteen-day battle at the Alamo Mission near San Antonio. In the early morning of the final battle, the Mexican Army advanced on the Alamo. Quickly being overrun, the Texian Soldiers quickly withdrew inside the building. The battle has often been overshadowed by events from the Mexican–American War, But the Alamo gradually became known as a national battle site and later named an official Texas State Shrine.
English (Essex and Middlesex): nickname from Middle English, Old French genterie ‘nobility of birth or character’. Compare Gentle .
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