McCarter Family Lines

Camas blooming in a meadow near the homestead of H.F. and Mary Jane McCarter on Corral Creek, Camas County, Idaho. Photo courtesy of Dan Robbins at Idahosummits.

Lineages

Our Family Tree

Our McCarter Lineage

McCarter Mayflower Lineage through Constance Hopkins
Mayflower line for descendants of H.F. McCarter and Mary Jane Senter

McCarter Mayflower Lineage through Edward Fuller
Mayflower line for descendants of Andrew Cole McCarter and Hulda Weiss

McCarter DNA Study Results

Y-chromosome tests are the latest tool in researching a particular surname. See the results of the DNA analysis on our line of McCarters.

Family Signatures

Philander McCarter 1802-1870	Calvin Halbert Senter 1832-1911
Levi Williams 1782-1860	James P. McCarter 1848-1920
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Articles

McCarter Family History
The story of H.F. and Mary McCarter of Camas County, Idaho, and their Grayson County, Virginia relatives the McClures, Pughs, Thomases, Senters, and Williams as written by H.F. and Mary's daughter Kate McCarter Weaver.

Who Were the Parents of Philander McCarter?
Philander McCarter was born in the state of New York on February 21, 1802, but his exact birth place, parents, and siblings, if any, remain a mystery. This article explores the possibilities of his origins.

Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower
The General Society of Mayflower Descendants estimates there are tens of millions of living descendants of the pilgrims who came to America on the Mayflower. My family descends from Stephen Hopkins who was one of the few pilgrims with previous New World experience. See our McCarter Mayflower Lineage.

William and Ellen McCarter of Wilson Co., Kansas
The biography of William A. McCarter, son of Thurza and Philander McCarter of Grayson County, Virginia.

William and Rosamond Bourne of Grayson Co., Virginia
The biography of Will and Rosa Bourne, early pioneers in Grayson County, Virginia.

My Early Years: Essays by an Idaho Cowboy
The autobiography of William Senter McCarter who in his late teens worked as a top hand for T.C. Catlin's Diamond Ranch in southern Idaho (1904-1908). Includes some family history as well as information on Camas County's early settlers, cow camps, and towns.

Legislative Career of Hugh Franklin McCarter
Newspaper article about H.F. McCarter's accomplishments in the Second Idaho Legislature, 1892-93.

Camas Prairie Settlers Celebrate 4th of July, 1888
Newspaper article that mentions H.F. McCarter and his family as participants in Camas County's 1888 4th of July celebrations.

Camas Prairie in the News
Early newspaper accounts of Camas Prairie, Idaho including reports of exploration, roads, mining, settlements, and the Bannock War of 1878.

McCarters Send Four Sons into Confederate Fray
Copyright © 1993, The Gazette, Galax, Virginia, reprinted with permission. Article about the Civil War service of Levi, Van Buren, William, and Andrew, sons of Thurza and Philander McCarter of Grayson County, Virginia.

Commencement Address of Amelia Ann Senter
The 1885 Oak Hill Academy commencement address given by Anna Senter, daughter of Calvin and Rosa Senter of Grayson County, Virginia.

Photos

Portraits

McCarter Family

Philander C. McCarter Grayson Co., VA (1855)	Thurza Williams McCarter Grayson Co., VA (1855)
Andrew Cole McCarter Washington Co., VA (1900)	Hugh Franklin McCarter Camas Co., ID (1885)
James P. McCarter Orange Co., CA (1910)	Sarah McCarter Graybeal Tazewell Co., VA (1890)
George Crogein McCarter Miami Co., KS (1910)

Pugh Family

Rosa Pugh Senter
Grayson Co., VA (1920)

Robert and James Pugh
DeKalb Co., MO (1905)

Senter Family

Anna Senter Young Grayson Co., VA (1900)	Calvin Halbert Senter Grayson Co., VA (1900)
Clara Senter Halsey Noble Co., OK (1910)	Mary Senter McCarter Camas Co., ID (1885)
Minnie Senter Copenhaver Grayson Co., VA (1890)	Who are these Virginia Senters?

Graves

Philander McCarter Thomas Family Cemetery Ashe Co., North Carolina	Thurza Williams McCarter McCarter Family Cemetery Smyth County, Virginia
Levi Hickman McCarter McCarter Family Cemetery Smyth County, Virginia	Martin V. B. McCarter Francis Cornett Cemetery Jerusalem Church Cem. Grayson County, Virginia
Catherine McC. Cornett Forest Methodist Church Grayson County, Virginia	Andrew Cole McCarter Lebanon Church Cemetery Washington Co., Virginia
William A. McCarter Good Shepherd Cemetery Orange County, California	Hugh Franklin McCarter Morris Hill Cemetery Ada County, Idaho
James P. McCarter Good Shepherd Cemetery Orange County, California	Sarah McCarter Graybeal Graybeal Cemetery Tazewell County, Virginia
Family of Drury Senter Senter Family Cemetery Grayson County, Virginia