The Susie Gentry Papers, ca. 1908-1985, is a series of letters and genealogical records about Tennessee soldiers of the War of 1812 (and of the Revolutionary War) and their descendents. It contains 38 items, mostly from the 1910's, including letters, a ledger, and family lines.

This collection is divided into two series. The first, entitled Correspondence to Gentry, ca. 1908-1916, consists of 31 letters and family genealogies to Gentry about soldiers from the War of 1812 or the Revolutionary War. She had placed articles and advertisements in local newspapers about her project, collecting War of 1812 Tennessee soldiers' names and locating their graves in Tennessee counties; many of the letters refer to these newspaper items (one 1911 letter includes a copy of clippings). Five of the letters pertain to the Tennessee chapter of the Daughters of 1812, and how the writers are eligible to join. As to the dates of the letters, twelve are from 1911 six from 1909, and one to three are from each of the other years from 1908 to 1916; there are no items from 1910 and two have no dates.

Ledger and Ledger Items, 1964-1985, is the second series and includes the ledger Gentry kept with the lines of many families from the 17th through 19th centuries. There are also loose items that were taken out of the ledger, but kept in the same order, in this collection. These consist of a copy of a newspaper-printed prayer, an article copied from the Tennessean about Al Gore, Jr., and several items pertaining to families in the ledger. Of the 7 items, only two have dates. One is from 1964, and the Gore article is from 1985.