Colonel Valentine Sevier, Jr. was born in Augusta County, Virginia in 1747. He met and married Naomi Douglas in 1767, they has fourteen children. He moved from Virginia to the Watauga River Valley (Present Day Elizabethton, Tennessee). Col. Sevier fought in the Revolutionary War against the British and Loyalists. Col. Sevier also fought in many of the Indian Wars across East Tennessee. After the war he moved his family to Clarksville, Tennessee, but there were frequent Indian attacks. It was on this spot on November 11th, 1794 that his family was attacked by Indians and several were killed. Col. Sevier lived until February 23rd, 1800, when he died after a lingering illness. Col. Sevier was Dale's Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandfather.

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• from Sevier Revolutionary War Soldiers

VALENTINE SEVIER was born in what is now Rockingham County, Virginia, about 1747, and settled at an early period in East Tennessee. He was a Sergeant, and one of the spies, at the battle of Point Pleasant, where, says Isaac SHELBY, "he was distinguished for vigilance, activity, and bravery." He subsequently served in the Indian wars in East Tennessee, and commanded a company at Thicketty Fort, Cedar Springs, Musgrove's Mill, and King's Mountain. He was the first Sheriff of Washington County, a Justice of the court, and rose in the militia to the rank of a Colonel. He removed to the mouth of Red river on Cumberland, now Clarksville, where he was attacked by Indians, November eleventh, 1794, killing and wounding several of his family. After long suffering from chronic rheumatism, he died at Clarksville [Montgomery Co, TN], February twenty-third, 1800, in his fifty-third year; his widow surviving till 1844 in her one hundred and first year, His younger brother, Robert SEVIER, who also commanded a company at King's Mountain, and was mortally wounded in the conflict, was previously much engaged in ridding the Watauga and Nolachucky region of Tories and horse thieves.

(Excerpted from King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, and the Events Which Led to It by Lyman C. Draper, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1881, pp. 418-424)

Sources

1. DAR Ancestor #: A102097
2. Findagrave record # 5425161