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Julia A. Cloy Rizer Gentry

Birth	:	14 May 1842 Edgefield County, South Carolina, USA
Death	:	28 Nov 1903 Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA
Burial	:	West Oakwood Cemetery, Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, USA
Coordinate	:	34.9597650, -81.9166620
Description	:	Obituary - "Greenville News" 1 Dec 1903 Page 1 MRS. JULIA GENTRY DEAD ---- Spartanburg, SC, Nov 30 (Special) -- Mrs. Julia Gentry, wife of Capt. L M Gentry, died at her home in the city yesterday after a very sudden illness. She was preparing to make a visit to the country parish as chairman of a committee of the Christian Temperance Workers, to donate a dinner to the inmates of the parish. She was suddenly attacked and never rallied, sinking until... Read More	Obituary - "Greenville News" 1 Dec 1903 Page 1 MRS. JULIA GENTRY DEAD ---- Spartanburg, SC, Nov 30 (Special) -- Mrs. Julia Gentry, wife of Capt. L M Gentry, died at her home in the city yesterday after a very sudden illness. She was preparing to make a visit to the country parish as chairman of a committee of the Christian Temperance Workers, to donate a dinner to the inmates of the parish. She was suddenly attacked and never rallied, sinking until the end came about 10 o'clock today. One son, Mr Charles Raysor (sic) of Georgia, her husband and a number of step children survive her. The deceased was about 63 years of age, and was a woman of marked piety and devotion to all charitable work throughout the city. She was the originator of the idea to carry Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners to the county parish, and contributed generously to all objects of charity, as well as ministering among the needy, helpless and unfortunate. She was an active, zealous member of the Baptist Church, and her presence as a shining light along the paths of righteousness and rectitude in this community will be sadly missed. Transcript by Jeni -- Julia was the 2nd wife of Sheriff Landon Miles Gentry Sr. of Spartanburg County. Julia had 2 sons prior to her marriage to Miles: Carlos "Kelly" Riser/Rizer 1863 – 1896 Charles M Riser/Rizer 1865 - 1956 The 1900 census states that Julia had had 1 child & 1 child was still alive, but on the 1880 census, she was the head of a boarding house with two sons listed & a sister & her family also living there; I traced the sister and found Julia's parents. On the 1850 census, Julia's father was a Lutheran preacher Rev. Robert Cloy, her mother was named Elizabeth, both were born about 1800. Rev Cloy had been licensed by the SC Synod in 1831 to pastor in Cloud's Creek, Edgefield District, SC, by 1850 it had become Barnwell District. Julia had at least ten siblings based on the 1840 & 1850 census's. Her father evidently died before the 1860 census, the book "History of the German Settlements and of the Lutheran Church in North and South Carolina" By Gotthardt Dellman Bernheim lists his death as 4 May 1853. In 1860, Julia was 18, attending school & living with a mechanic's family along with her brother Harmon Cloy who was farming the foster family's land, there was also another teen boy living there so I suspect the family was taking in orphans. Julia married about 1862, I don't know who Julia's 1st husband was but she was listed on the 1882 and 1883 Augusta City Directories, in 1883 while living with both her sons she was listed as the widow of J C Rizer, working as a dressmaker. (There is a John Rizer who fought in the Civil War who could be her husband, son of Christian Rizer of Barnwell, but he seems to have survived the war. They could've been divorced or separated, Georgia always allowed divorce, SC did not until much later.) On the 1870 census, Julia had only one child listed, Carlos Riser 7 yrs old, no husband, but in 1880 she was listed with two sons: Kelly (Carlos) 17 & Charles M 15 yrs old; she was running a boarding house in Graniteville right across the river/state line from Augusta, GA, it was Edgefield County on the 1870 census & by 1880 it was Aiken County, most of her boarders were working in a cotton mill. Julia was listed as married in 1880, but neither census lists a husband living with her. Julia's sister Ella (Florilla Cloy) Bloom was also living there with her husband BE Bloom & daughter Mina Bloom. (BE Bloom was buried under the name Barsella Equilla Blume, he & Ella had at least three children: Armina (who married first Charles Farrell and second Thomas Farris), Bessie Mae (who married Forrest Theodore Gay) & Clarence Edward Bloom Sr.(who married Annie E Savage). Ella probably died before 1894 when her husband Barsella remarried to an Annie Owens.) Julia married Miles Gentry about 1887 based on the 1900 census and lived out the remainder of her life in Spartanburg at Miles's home on 578 N Church St. How they met is not known but since Miles was a former Sheriff and reportedly traveled to Columbia at least several times, she could have met him there. (The area where Julia was born/lived was later taken over by the nuclear power industry.) Miles Gentry may have sent Julia's youngest son Charles Rizer to Harvard University because he's listed there along with Miles's son John Joseph Gentry as belonging to the same fraternity, though in different graduating classes. There were no SC government death records until the federal government mandated them to start in 1915, but Julia died at home according to the personal death records of Dr Hugh R Black of "congestion of stomach". Julia's funeral was said to be at the Central Methodist Church in Spartanburg according to the Charlotte obit, which was about a half mile closer into town on the same street where she lived, but the Greenville obit shown above said she was attending a Baptist church, her husband attended First Baptist on E Main St. --Jeni 9/2017

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Julia A. Cloy Rizer Gentry death on 28 Nov 1903 in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, South Carolina, USA
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Latitude: 34.9597650
Longitude: -81.9166620

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