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Capt. N. A. Senter was born Nov. 1, 1838, in Cumberland County, N. C., the son of J. M. and Flora (McNeill) Senter, both natives of North Carolina and of Irish extraction. The father was a farmer and in 1855 moved to Gibson County, Tenn., where he passed the balance of his life. He was a moral man, a highly useful citizen, and reared a family of two sons and two daughters. He died in 1881, aged sixty-nine years. His wife was an excellent woman and died in 1883, aged seventy-three years. Both were consistent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. N. A. Senter was reared in North Carolina and in this county, growing up on a farm, He received a limited education and early in 1861 enlisted in Company B, Twenty-seventh Tennessee (Confederate) Regiment. He served about two years in the infantry and two years in the cavalry. He was first lieutenant, and after Shiloh was captain, but was forced to resign, owing to poor health. After recuperating, he enlisted in the cavalry service under Gen. Forrest, under whom he served as first lieutenant. At Shiloh and Columbia he received gun-shot wounds, but was not off duty thereby. At Shiloh five bullet holes were made in his hat. His experience was similar at Columbia. After the war he engaged in the grocery business at Humboldt. In 1880 he opened a livery barn. He is now acting deputy sheriff. He is a Democrat, a Mason and a K. of H. He has been mayor and recorder of Humboldt several times. He was married December 18, 1867, to Mrs. Elizabeth Lawhorn nee Baird, daughter of David Baird, an early settler of Dyer County. They have five children: John, Lilly, James, Grace and Neill. Both are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.