Frederick B. Gentry

Gentry's name stayed on the map after the man did. The Handbook says Frederick Browder Gentry settled on Waring Creek in 1875 and ran a wheat and corn mill there, and S. C. Terry later built a gin nearby. The community had a post office from 1876 to 1895 and was estimated at seventy-five people in 1884; by 1896 it was no longer counted. A school lasted until 1950. Whether the miller and the plaque's 1836 soldier are the same Gentry the Handbook does not say. The county map of 1983 still showed a church, cemetery and hall.

What the plaque says

Frederick B. Gentry Texas War for Independence soldier, 1836. Later commanded a frontier Minuteman Company. Erected by the State of texas, 1962

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hamilton County Courthouse — 0.5 mi
  A limestone courthouse of 1886-87 on the Hamilton square, built after the county's 1878 courthouse burned, enlarged in the early 1930s and rededicated in 2012 after restoration.
• Meridian State Park — 28 mi
  A 505-acre park in Bosque County where World War I veterans of a Civilian Conservation Corps company dammed Bee Creek in 1933-34 for a 72-acre lake and cut stone buildings around it.

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