Person:Drury Senter (2)

Note: From Baptist church records, (He died of) that sly and deceitfuldestroyer Dispepsa, which flatters but to kill. Burial: VA, Grayson Co, Mouth of Wilson Note: 2 2 3 Information for this family group comes from "Old Fanily Bible" and obituary for Rev. Drury Senter. per Laura Allen. From official records of the Baptist Church: "(Drury) was born in Fayettville, (sic) Cumberland Co, NC on the 25th day of September, 1788. His parentsremoved with him to Washington Co, VA (abt 1792) and there he marriedon June 6, 1809. In the year 1814 he became a member of the PrimitiveBaptist Church at St. Clair's Bottom, VA and answered the Call of theLord. In December 1815 he was licensed to preach in the same church...(he) laboured as a public minister (until) 1823 when he was chosen bythe Washington Association as their messenger to Sister Association in North Carolina. In the year 1823 (he) removed to North Carolina andsettled in the county of Ashe where he laboured as a public minister in the Mountain and adjoining Associations, and his labours were greatly blessed. About the year 1840 he removed to the county of Grayson where he lived until the time of his death on the 10th day of January 1853. (he died of) that sly and deceiful destroyer Dispepsa, which flatters but to kill." From Ashe County - A History by Fletcher: "The Senter Baptist Association was formed at a convention held at Senter Church in Ashe County, named for the renowned Elder Drewry (sp. var.) Senter, and his equally famous son, Nathaniel Senter. The convention met on October 21, 1853, and when it had finished its labours there was a new Association - the Senter, named for the two preachers. The association was made up of four churches from the Three Forks Association (Big Helton, Silas Creek, South Fork, Senter and Cranberry). To the credit of the Senter Association is the first recorded action toward bettering educational facilities in Ashe County. (They had planned to erecta school, but the Civil War forced abandonment of the idea.)" From the Washington Co. Marriage Register comes this humorous note: Drury Senter was a minister recorded in 1822, his denomination listed as Baptist (?) sic. An editor's note follows: "Note: The Senter family later on Hard-shelled Baptists. They seduced a young Methodist minister fromhis Faith, immersed him, soaking him throughly into their fold. The Rev. Drury Senter must have laid the foundations for this sort of thing. B.F."