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William M. Senter is one of four children born to the marriage of James M. Senter and Flora McNeill, both natives of North Carolina, born in 1812 and 1810 respectively. They married and lived in their native State until 1855, when they immigrated to Gibson County, Tenn., and here spent the remainder of their days. They were farmers and Methodists, and the father in early life was a merchant. He was a Democrat and died in 1878 followed by his wife six years later. Our subject is of English and Irish and Scotch descent. He was born in Harnett County, N. C., September 19, 1833, and was raised on a farm and received a practical education at the public schools. At the age of nineteen he began farming for himself, and in 1851 married Sarah Cameron, to whom two children were born. After her death he married, in 1857, Nancy J. Pemberton who has borne him eight children. His second wife died in 1882 and the following year he married Mrs. Nancy (Watson) Hendricks. In 1863 he joined Company B, Fourteenth Tennessee Confederate Cavalry and served one year. He has since farmed and in 1880 moved to Montazuma to educate his children, and during his four years’ sojourn in that place, was engaged in the mercantile business. In 1885 he returned to his farm of 400 acres. He is a Democrat and has been constable four years and magistrate ten years.