Husband Samuel Lawrence Sentman 1
Born: 29 Jun 1803 - Montgomery Co, PA 2
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Father: Lawrence Sentman ( - ) 2
Mother: Mary Henry ( - ) 2
Marriage: - Perry Co, PA
Other Spouse: Elizabeth Elm ( - ) 3
Wife Elizabeth Eckert 2
Born: - Cumberland Co, PA
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Died: 16 Mar 1872 2
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Father: Jonas Eckert ( - ) 2
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1 F Mary Ann Sentman 4
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Died: 31 May 1876 5
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Spouse: Samuel Taylor (1819- ) 4
Marr: 14 Nov 1851 5
2 F Elizabeth Sentman 3
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Spouse: Adam Shoemaker ( - ) 3
3 M Solomon Sentman 3
Born: 14 Mar 1829 - North Middleton Twp, Cumberland Co, PA 3
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Spouse: Mary J. Rebuck ( - ) 6
Marr: 6 Nov 1862 3
4 M Samuel Sentman 3
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5 M Andrew Sentman 3
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6 M Catharine Sentman 3
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7 F Henrietta Sentman 3
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Spouse: Adam Shoemaker ( - ) 3
8 F Sarah A. Sentman 3
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9 F Emma J. Sentman 3
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Spouse: Henry Cryder ( - ) 3
General Notes: Husband - Samuel Lawrence Sentman
He was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, and removed with his parents to Chester County when an infant. At the age of twelve, he hired out at 20 cents a day, and worked at whatever he could find to do. He obtained a fair education for the time, and when sixteen years of age began teaching, which he followed five years, in the meantime improving his own education. He was a great and very successful hunter.
About 1825 he bought a farm in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, which he conducted until 1835, when he removed to Carlisle, and there remained two years. His reason for leaving Cumberland County was that he had built a good barn which he a second time filled, and this was struck by lightning. Mr. Sentman's business plans being thus disarranged, and Carlisle having adopted the free school system, he concluded to move there in order to give his children advantageous educations, and leave the farm in charge of a trusty old laborer. A year later he sold this farm for over double first cost. While in Carlisle he clerked in a store with a view to learning the business. In the spring of 1838 he went to Newville, purchased a stock of goods and engaged in merchandising for some two years. He then sold out to his partner and went to Newburg, where he built one of the best residences in the place and remained about ten years. While there, in 1846, he purchased property at Roxbury, a tannery, and started it in order to get his son, Solomon, into business. Soon after the tannery was accidentally destroyed by fire. Mr. Sentman rebuilt it and made it a success. He moved to Roxbury about 1849 and brought a large stock of fine goods with him, and engaged in business for about five years. In the meantime he purchased a farm which needed improving, and as the store business became dull he closed out and gave his attention to farming. Mr. Sentman speculated considerably and most successfully in buying, improving and then selling farms. In 1865 he bought a farm in good order near Dover, in Delaware, containing 317½ acres, which in the summer of 1886 he sold, taking nine brick houses in West Philadelphia in part payment.
Politically Mr. Sentman was rather liberal, though inclining to Republican ideas, and in religion affiliated with the Reformed Church.