Biography:

Local historian; journalist. Born September 15, 1921, Lawrence Co. Parents– John Harvey and Minnie Dale (Burch) Free. Married– H. Clifton Gentry, February 12, 1942. Children– Two. Resident of Hartford, Kentucky; for many years.  Columnist, writer and editor of the Ohio County Times; columnist for the Ohio County Times-News.  Researcher and collector of early countiana.  Died August 1, 2012.

Source:

Files at Alabama Public Library Service; obituary.

Publication(s):

Fort Hartford, Ohio, County; Founded on Faith in the Future.  Hartford, Ky:  The Author, 1986.

Life and Legend of Lawrence County, Alabama. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; Gentry, 1962.

Rough River Ripples.  Hartford, Ky: The Author, 1992.