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From: alan craig
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Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 11:03 AM
Subject: CW Service Record for John Senters, KY
The following is the transcription of the service record for John Senters, Company K, 8th
Regt., KY INf. Vol.
This is the transcription of the Army of the United States Certificate of Disability for
Discharge for John Senters, Private, of Captain Henry C. Thomas, of the 8th Regiment of KY
Volunteers at Estill Springs on the 4th, day of October 1861 to serve 3 years; he was born
in Montgomery County in the State of Kentucky, is 21 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high;
dark complexion; black eyes; black hair, and by occupation when enlisted a ditcher.
During the last 2 months said soldier has been fit for duty 30 days, said John Senters has
a disease of the chest.
Station: Nashville Tenn.
Date: May the 25, 1862
Henry C. Thomas, Capt. 8th KY Vol
I certify that I have carefully examined the said John Senters, Capt. Thomas' Company
and find him incapable of performing the duties of a soldier
because of diseased lungs which disqualify him for performing the duties of a soldier.
Signed: John A. Mills Asst. Surgeon
Discharged, this tenth day of June, 1862 at Nashville Tenn, S. Barnes, Col., Commanding
the Regt.
Following are the service cards:
John Senters, Pvt. Co. K, 8th Regt. Ky Inf.
Age 22 years.
Appears on Company Muster-in Roll
of the organization named above. Roll dated Lebanon KY, Jan. 15, 1862.
Muster-in to date: Jan. 15, 1862.
Joined for duty and enrolled:
When: Oct. 4th, 1861
Where: Estill Springs,
Period: 3 years
Next card:
John Senters, Pvt. Co. K, 8 Regt. Ky INf
Company Muster Roll
for: Enrollment Dec. 31, 1861
Present or absent: not stated
Next card:
Company Muster-in Roll
of the organization named above. Roll dated Lebanon KY, Jan. 15, 1862
Muster in date: Jan. 15, 1862
Called for duty and enrolled:
When: Oct. 4th, 1861
Period: 3 years
Next card:
Company Muster-in Roll
for Enrollment Dec. 31, 1861
Present or absent: not stated
next card:
Company Muster-in Roll
for Jany and Feb 1862
Present
next card:
Company Muster-in Roll
for Mar and Apl 1862
Present
next card:
Company Muster-in roll
May and June 1862
Remarks: Discharged June 10, 1862 and final statement given.
next card:
Company Muster-in roll
for April 30 to Aug. 31, 1862
Remarks: Dropped by Muster of 18th Aug. Sent home to KY sick from Wartrace Tenn June 1st
1862.
Next card:
Co. Muster-Out Roll, dated Chattanooga, Tenn. Nov. 17, 1864
Last paid to April 30, 1862
Remarks: Discharged June 1/62 dis. Wartrace Gen. Buell order
Book Mark: Discharged June 10/62
Certificate of Disability For Discharge
In the case of John Senters
Private co K
8th Regt Ky Vols
Wartrace Tenn
May 26, 1862
Respectfully forwarded
S. Barnes Col
Sept. 11, 1862
On Our Casualty Roll
JRB (written intitals)
Vol. INfs. District of the Ohio
Nashville Tenn
JUne 2nd 1862
to be discharged by order
I also have his pension record. He would die
in Montgomery Co. KY on 07 June 1862. His mother and father were John Senters Sr. and
wife Serilda Senters...he had brothers and sisters.
On the Declaration for Dependent Mother's Pension page, she lists: Powell born about
1843, Sarah born about 1840, Susan born about 1852, Nelson born about 1856, and crossed
out is Sam....she says in another affidavit that this baby Sam was born the very day they
buried the son John Senters.
John Senters was married to Marum Curtis, daughter of Rev. John J. Curtis of Estill Co
KY. They married about the beginning of the war and according to John's mother he
went into the army because she drove him to distraction.
She was pregnant when he left for the army and had a baby which may have been named John,
but John's mother says she changed to Pleasant Bush Senters. The baby died before it
was three.
Marum would marry again to John Cooper in Robertson County on March 2, 1871. John
Senters' mother said he had filed papers for divorce from her but he died before the
divorce was final.
Marum would marry again, evidently Cooper dies, to a James Howard, chimney builder.
In a depostion by Frank Adams, he says: I know old John and young John and Brit (no
brother named Brit on above document) all lived together in same house and they used to
disagree and fight bit I don't know particulars and don't recall Marum was run
off before John Senters died. Marum left him and was gone several years and then came
back and called herself Widow Cooper and had Cooper children. Later she married Jim
Howard.
There is also a deposition from Stephen Powell Senters saying he was present when John
Senters died...he lives at Locust Branch, Estill Co. KY. This is dated 1879.
Serilda, John Senters' mother, was dau. of Fielding Hensley.
This record is fascinating because Marum, John's wife, and Serilda, John's mother
both were applying for pension benefits. It contains numerous affidavits and letters.
When Marum left John, evidently she got a beating from Serilda and John's sister
Sarah....Marum had spit in John's food and smacked or hit him in the face and made him
bleed. He was very ill and she wouldn't fix him any food...when he got up and fixed
his own she was mean to him. She left and never came back...even when he died.
John, one deposition says, had black hair and a very lush mustache for one so young.
This record is better than any novel. I want so badly to attach this John to "my
James"....but the list of brothers does not include a brother named James....
Marilyn