From the Southern Historical Research Magazine, Vol. 1, # 4, Sept.
1936 , p. 380. I found this thru a PERSI search for Senter
SENTER: Two revolutionary soldiers, TANDY SENTER and MILTON SENTER, natives of Virginia,
migrated down into Tennessee and settled first in Grainger Counmty, later in Roane County.
Tandy Senter, the revolutionary soldier, is buried at Harriman and Milton Senter is
buried at what is known as the Center Graveyard.
Tandy Senter, Jr., son of Tandy, was in the war of 1812, he having been born in Virginia,
coming with his parents to Tenn. He had a son William T. Senter, who was elected to
congress from Tenn. in 1844, who was the father of DeWitt Clinton Senter, who was born in
Rhea County in 1830 and raised in Grainger County, and who in 1859 married his cousin
Harriet T. Senter, who was a sister of James Freeman Senter, the father of Hon. E. G.
Senter, prominent lawyer, newspaper man and member of the State Senate of Texas.
DeWitt Clinton Senter was a member of the Tenn. Legislature from Grainger Co. three times,
beginning in 1856, was also a member of the State Senate at the close of the war from
Grainger, Claiborne, Anderson and Union counties and during his second term in the senate
was speaker of that body.
When "Parson" Brownlow, then governor, was elected United States Senator, Senter
became Gov. and was re-elected at the end of the term. The descendants of Tandy and
Milton Senter scattered over the county.
Would be glad to receive any information in regard to them, especially of Milton Senter
and Abner Senter, the latter having been a member of Uriah Allison's Company in the
war of 1812, joining the company at Kingston, Tenn, when he was 25 years old. Whose son
was he?
Thought this query from 1936 was very interesting. Marilyn