Notable Southern Families. Volume IV

<p>The history of John Sevier and his family is Interlocked with the history of thousands upon thousands of citizens of Tennessee and every other Southern State. A speaker said not long ago that no where else in the United States than in the mountains of Tennessee can a man address a crowd of two or three thousand people with not a foreign born hearer or a hearer whose parents are foreign born. No where else are traditions so deeply ingrained of the pioneers. who won the land. The ancestors of every man and woman in the section participated with Sevier in the Winning of the West and were on more or less intimate terms with the Great Commander. Many of the things that are here set down will therefore be twice told tales as around every fireside in the mountains stories are still told of the prowess and courage of the Good Governor Nollichucky Jack of the beauty of Bonny Kate or the sweetness and bravery of Sarah Hawkins who was the first Madame Sevier; of the charm of the Sevier girls and the bravery of the sons; of the heroic fortitude of Valentine Sevier III and his sorrow of six sons and daughters killed by Indians; of the almost king-like reign of John Sevier in Tennessee and of the fact that had he so desired perhaps he might have truly reigned a king for the Spanish proposals were many and various. Yet lest the knowledge of these things should pass as the generations go and lest the dates and names should become confused these facts are gathered from many sources. Among those to whom credit must be given fur valuable assistance are : Charles Lyman Sevier Robert A. J. Armstrong Mrs. Eugene Coiled Miss Kellogg of the Wisconsin Historical Society Custodian of the Draper papers Mrs. Sessler Hoss Elston Luttrell Miss Augusta Bradford of the Chattanooga Library A. N. Turner A. V. Goodpasture William Drane Miss Lucy M. Ball Mrs. Sophia Hoss French Charles Sevier Mrs. Florence Underwood Eastman John Trotwood Moore Tennessee State Librarian A. P. Foster Assistant Tennessee State Librarian Miss Cora Sevier Mrs. Theodore Francis Sevier Mrs. Louise Sevier Giddings Mrs. Gray Gentry (Evelyn Sevier) the late Charles Bascom Sevier Mrs. John Trotwood Moore Daniel Vertner Sevier Jr. Benjamin F. Wyley W. H. Waddell Mrs. Ruth Catherine Hoyt Mrs. N. B. Pearman Samuel Sevier Kirkpatrick Fain Anderson Miss Kate White J. J. Brown Mrs. G. L. Wing Mrs. Ida Barclay Tucker Mrs. William P. Bowdry Mrs. M. W. Barney Seldon Nelson Mrs. Sabine Miss Lucy M. Ball and many other members of the family whose information and interest contributed so largely to the value of the record. This volume Volume IV consists of six parts and includes the following: The Sevier Family Antecedents and Emigration; William Sevier the Emigrant and His Descendants; Valentine Sevier the Emigrant and His Descendants; Joanna Goode Sevier who Married Younger Landrum Jr. and Her Descendants; Governor John Sevier His First Wife Sarah Hawkins Sevier and His Second Wife Catherine Sherrill Sevier; and The Descendants of Governor John Sevier.</p>