Show 1 V 0 till 01 1 41 V t 3 or A T AV VV A w aa all x CZ OF ym i i 11 r by ELO ELNO SCOTT SCOTT WATSON EAR BUM the courthouse at knoxville wan stands ids s tall allwhite i ob obelisk ellAk 48 abou you walk along one of the sheldy V in the yard and approach the ild stone these avoids words meet i your ev 0 o A tho first I 1 t gov emor q or ye john se vl er ja ck september rev i wf lai 1744 depie september 24 41 1815 plo neer soldier states statesman man and one othe founders ot of the 1 Ile republic public h 13 youve uw U w neve d ei r b heard afia dl of not N chucky jack k then youve missed k knowing rf the really great characters of tha american fronriter fro frontier niter and one of the most picturesque falkl urea in all our history walk around the monument and read this inscription governor d bernor oer nor f the state oi of tennessee F our times elected to congress cn gress A broj projector bior and alid liera herbol of fin b ah as babies 35 vict bries his indian war cry was alere they arel are 1 come me ott 7 r thrilling T as ag Js Is the story Is bleid those words gu is atut ca com mp ete e until yau acad A an la crip tion on still another side rl of tile the monument hero it Is r Jat liero e sherrill sevier bonny catic Cat te fc 1 nani can fe e ihk d ta t Tenn tennessee esiee from north cari 4 nW 4 ina lna married john r august 14 tia whallie wh aslie was twenty sti she became tie the mother of eight children and died October ft 1850 aged eighty two moved from t alle ala and re interred here bere july 22 lo 10 and set in the brick walls of the courthouse nearby Is a still more interesting memento of this and his pioneer wife there yote will see the original tombstones of sevier and his banny ate which were erected elected over their graves in ali iq alabama IP a and n 0 in plowed 0 y ed i present location 6 neaily eq 1 7 lad years ma later r one bile b ears tile the simple inscription J sevier died september 21 1815 the pier reads 1 notice the dif difference ferene jn sp allego of arnor john ster ur tennessee 0 o dlud I 1 r 7 1836 aged eighty two years had been erected over fsr their groves graves in alabama here they spent their lost last years aar f hi you aee had not yet given their people the proper I 1 U eo e o of elwe which to view their part partha in 17 b e wasn gasn ot util nearly clearly a century ce nt ury later that the Tennesse eana re claimed anemas d dij ftp a all haidt to i 0 themla enduring stone tile the honors due their greatness vor for tills this john sevier Is characterized by one hist historian orlan thus the organizer of the first fir st free government on the continent the great r an indian fighter whom voi aw few f v IG a soldier who could meet the finest troops on tile the continent iii an fn the field and with inferior nuth numbers bers win suc cess from adverse an adminta who could V I 1 affairs bt ills aroni men inen under caces ot of tile the greatest deih dla cultra culty cult ya a statesman who alio take taked rank not far behind those colossal men who die pains ami the adel Ael lvery of the new nation to be of him too another historian I 1 has 1 ai written the most alt ing spirit was va s the young john of french Ilu hugenot genot fumoy aorl originally t rl itally spelled spell ed aa ya it was from in shenandoah county wll r he 14 wi waa wang ufa f a dinall farmer ln to aja region in eastern T tennessee e unessee nn essee elili c 1 I arrival arrival chere begins ao one naoi of tf ane 4 al most csc career recorded tn the V old southwest in this daring and impetuous young fellow fair li alred blue be eyed eved magnetic debonair of power af b sand athletic skill rolAIN haldt W gai exemplar I 1 ar I 1 of tile truly heroic he we of the b gor bruer g ei the story of his life thrilling in the ex extreme tieme Is rich in all the inu C 61 ota ahl which ch impart ro ron hiance lance to ifft in sirs 1 51 eu ahad een 1 1709 09 to 40 by james rtin and 9 party of af N ath th car V who the mountains and bull hullt thell a in 0 fertile valley on the other hlo r the Theiu ig nho was a man of ceala al in days bays soon ca lie a leader tn in aho 43 years he was waa the ono one outstanding figure in that part 0 of the antler country for it was not long tits arrival that he had an opportunity to 1 cirii we TIT i tro tr uhles with the enned curing the th e dunmore du amore war of 4 aj linued after the the ile revolution during the sevier inore indre than thin orlee artke broke up tle plang of the british for s upon tile bordera and alvs lus live rilly ani ake adalu st tile tiie col who h were ie revolting t the loither country coun iry oue one the was J T bc i V 1 M M 1 all tj 4 saM va tl MON aly 4 Z in T f i g l 20 o 1 0 as lat xa iA Ait 5 S f 1 rrb rr 1 i g mil hw Z L S 1 xi 1111 h 1 11 W L y y r hy awat ow At kaaa y w sy ft aws iw 61 rf i i iw ai yx ils w ozner I 1 0 0 0 katherine Kather lne sherrill 0 0 0 0 0 Ind fanst indiana Indian st I 1 run girls carl runt nun I 1 0 A keen eyed lii at the th fort rate irate cried cariad 0 to the women who milked the cows outside ou 0 0 they run ran a whoop and nd a guns report 0 0 Spec adint din their stem ep as aa they fled to the aba fort 0 0 Farthest FAr thet ot of all 11 II frona from its it sheltering wall wait 0 0 latest to cach anil and heed the call 0 po was katherine katherina sherrill fairest 0 of maids maid 0 10 in 10 all Wata Wo forest glades ade i 0 fearing tear the sprang like ilka a startled deer dear 0 0 0 and fled on feet that were winged with fear tar 0 0 but the tb call had come comee moment batet latet 0 A the th cut ber off from the fat tato 0 0 and while the rifles rifle blazed blared away 0 0 rushed yelling ami to etze their avy 0 0 0 0 at kate cate of the fort fad bold john joba sevier 0 statesman Sta tennan and warrior and pioneer 0 0 was wa grasped by a dozen doen bands and stayed 0 1 0 A As he b tried to rush to the fleeing leean maid 0 0 grasped Grai ped held back and the great bar dropped 0 0 it was certain death if he ha were not stopped 0 t and better a girl be ba captive led 0 0 chaa I 1 be the 1 man of th west well lie 11 dead 0 the indian indians rushed to seize etze their prey 0 but shi r whirled aside and a loed aawar 0 0 away from the sate gate but toward the wall wail 0 0 0 eight feet it tchi strod th the mald maid put ill all 0 tier her strength in one great leap and flung 0 0 her arm across the top and clung 0 0 one ona inita ot trembling out of breath 0 0 0 then over th the a top and away from death 0 0 01 str strong arm had c caught asli and drawn her clear 01 ir tle the edger eater arms ann of john sevier 0 0 1 1 0 0 such Is the tory story 10 it t wa wal told 01 0 1 to our fathers by theirs heir in buys the day at aids old 0 0 0 so win will our children the tale repeat 0 0 to children clustered 0 bout about their feet 0 0 for as long lone as beauty Is 1 loved and youth it 0 and deeds deed of valor and man manhood hoods truth 0 0 0 will a place tx be khot in ahe her he heart s t of 0 the state 0 0 0 fajohn fon john sevier and his 0 bonny on ny kate 0 0 forbse for the tSe hero herd brave aud and the bride b he you 0 and the love that lived till their ovas lives w were ere bonc dan 0 0 0 0 i E F mille 0 0 0 la in 1775 when a war party attached a rude pal hauled tn In clos closure ure built on the llie banks of the watauga Wa near sycamore shoals the fort was Ifo bosely besieged for soane Q lays and during r P this tl lime ae there oc occurred currea 64 the romantic episode which has made famous the story of nolichucky Noli chucky jack and his bonny kute kate despite warning some sor ne of the people in the fort growing tired of the confinement had gone outside the stalls alls A party of savages suddenly appealed and tried to cut cui them abbin off at the first alarm sevier devler sent his bis me men n to the walls to cover the night flight of stricken fugitives by a sharp rifle ride fire which bol baldoff holdon doff 1 the indians until all had reec hed safety ono one young girl sherrill in her terror leaped toabe to the top of the palisade and fell over the alls into the arms of the commander or site beeme pecked d to have leaped nto into his heart also for they were married soon after during this cloge of the alie fort sevier and his men men inflicted such heavy losses upon tile the indiana that Ocono the great war chief of the cherokee rk es s 6 withdrew his warriors but aba genius of devler Sev ler w was not shown so much in defensive wa ant as it was ua in tile the tactics of attack time aud and again he led the border borderers ers on oil swift expeditions id surprise on an village and drive them into headlong rout then after destroying the ge and the crops be withdrew to tile the watauga settlement in fact long before there wits was a napoleon Noll chucky jack adopted the napoleonic po pole leonle onic iden idea of a small concentrated body hurled burled swiftly upon a superior but seat scat bitted force orce and tills this polley policy of nf aud anti speed soon broke the spirit of the Cherokees and X y M ale 6 A 0 M their allies and prevented their being used by the tha british lik li a rear attack on the colonies who were wera engaged in their desperate struggle on the atlantic seaboard it was these same tactics which sevier used la winning one of the most brilliant victories I 1 of 0 the h 9 revolution ehg he d dash a sh to ta trap colonel kolonel and his bis force 91 0 at and overwhelm helm them before they cofeild receive aid from cornwallis Cornwall ls not far fae fi from m Ja jahnson bilson city tenn stands h a monument where sevier j campbell shelby a and d other leaders rallied the mountain men for the march over the great to take part in that battle which was afterwards to be known as the turning point of 0 the Il revolution evolution for the loss suffered ered by the british on kings mountain was one of the steps stepa which led to the surrender of Cornwa llla at yorktown and the end of the bie revolution at tile the close of pie revolution the north carolina legislature without bonsu consulting the settlers wishes ceded the watauga region to the federal government with the pro provision vIson that it must be accepted within two years during the two yeara yearn congress debated the matter and finally rejected the gift while the discussion was going on in congress north carolina withdrew her courts and militia and the settlers awoke to the fact that they were under the protection of neither the state nor cor the federal government and from neither could they gain any help in repelling the tha attacks of the indians who were again becoming troublesome although they were still subject to t federal government taxes they were receiving nothing in return for them finally angered by being thus deserted by the state and nation which they had served so BO well during the trying times of the revolution the frontiersmen decided to establish a state of their own and in 1784 there came into existence the independent i state of franklin a commonwealth unique in american Jil story the leader to whom they turned was no chucky jack sevier and during the stormy history of that commonwealth he be as before was the outstanding leader of the east tennessee frontiersmen ti for north carolina after with drawing the act of cesi cession ion attempted to assert her authority aver over eliat re inn again As a governor em or of the commonwealth and a man whose personality naturally made I 1 enemies for him sevier was singled out for fop punishment ile he was treacherously betrayed captured and afterwards tried at ai Morgan morgantown town wu N 0 for high treason immediately of the tra trang allegheny borderers borde border reig ers assembled for the rescue of their be loved Noll chucky jack for awhile a civil war beeme seemed d imminent then aided by some of his bis 0 old id co frades ln la arms sevier sever made a spectacular escape whereupon the people odthe of tha watauga country promptly elected him to tho the north carolina lina legislature there nassome was some protest about his taking ills his seat but eventually he was al lowed to hold the orace when north carolina ratified the federal constitution an d becaro one of lie IQ sisterhood of states ona was to r represent ep resent the north carolina district beyond tai the e mountains it goes without saying that was unanimously elec elected fed ahen tennessee became a ferri territory tori he was wag made general of the militia and when she became a state lie he was chosen governor without 1 opposition ile he was elected to that position for forth three ree successive terms and then udder the constitution beings ineligible for a period of two years he was thereafter elected for three more successive terms after which he was sent ba back ck to congress ton gress and three times elected reelected re jack tiled ha be had lived in the harness aik aid in the field the end carue cadue in 1315 in a appt oa a pitr surveying beying expedition for the government surrounded by his soldiers sold lers ills wife lived on the for more than a score of yearn years and was burled buried first in alabama sho she died dut in 1029 2 tier her body was brought ack to 10 tennessee and t there tit in the flie deiy very lien heart rt f tile the country dij nij q pioneer 0 couple saw history in the lie making and helped make inake it jack and his bouny bonny kate ar IM together wa |