This post is from Marilyn Craig:
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 County, 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
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