"Bud" and Alice Gentry were among the first settlers in the Deerhead
  Community. Bud grew up in Kentucky. As a young man he left Kentucky, making
  his way through Missouri into Kansas working as a cowhand. In Kansas, near
  Deerhead, he took claim on land adjoining a piece that Alice McGarvin was
  proving up.
     Alice came to kansas with her parents, the Leonard Crabbs. They had
  staked claims side by side. Whenher parents returned to their Oklahoma
  ranch, Alive managed both. Bud and Alice came to know each other, were 
  married, and so combined their holdings.
     When the Cherokee Strip opened, they joined the thousands who took part
  in the "run," staked a claime in the middle of what is now Alva, Oklahoma.
  For some reason they decided not to stay.
     Returning to their home near Deerhead, they continued to work and build.
  Land abandoned by "landrunners" was eventually put up for sale for back
  taxes. Bud and Alice bought some of the abandoned claims and eventually
  accumulated 10,000 acres. Needles to say, in those days a ranch that size
  needed a lot of hands to run it. Bud kept 17 or 18 men working most of the
  time.
     Bud and Alice didn't have children from their marriage, but raised her 
  son of a former marriage, and their two granddaughters.
     Prior to her coming to Kansas, Alice worked on the Miller Brothers' 101
  ranch near Ponca City, Oklahoma. Her Uncle Tom Waters was a foreman there.
  Alice cooked at the Line Camp Shack, her husband, Charles McGarvin, built
  fence. They had one son, James Compton McGarvin.
     Being married to a fence builder who worked only when he felt like it
  was not what an ambitious woman like Alice had in mind, so she divorced
  Charles, took her young son, and struck out on her own.
     Alice's son, Jim, grew up on the Gentry Ranch and married Lulu Burton, 
  the daughter of a neighboring rancher. Her parents, John and Sarah Burton,
  owned what is now the Mitchell Ranch in Aetna.
     Lulu and Jim lived together several years and became the parents of three
  girls. The oldest, Faye, died in infancy. Beulah was born 3-28-1905, and
  Velma was born 2-25-1907.
     When the girls were small, Lulu and Jim were divorced, and the Gentry's
  were given custody of the children.
     While the grandchildren were growing up, Alive traveled extensively, trying
  to find relief from arthritis pain. She took the girls and introduced them to
  whatever culture was available. She took them to plays and concerts including 
  one by the great Italian Soprano, Amilita Gallicurci.
     When Beulah was nineteen, she married Clarence Cline. A few years later 
  Velma married Roger Mills.
     Beulah and Clarence had four children; Billy Gentry, Clarence Wesley, Jr.,
  James Dean, and Alice Evelyn Gerstner. Velma and Roger had an adopted son,
  Mike.
     Alice and Bud lived on the ranch until 1929, then moved to Medicine Lodge
  to retire, leaving the ranch in the hands of their granddaughters and husbands.
  Bud passed away in 1933; Alice was struck down by pneumonia and died 6 years
  later. Jim stayed on in the town home until his death in 1950.
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 190 
     Submitted by: Alice Gerstner