Michael Robert Sevier

Michael Robert Sevier BIRTH 18 Jun 1822 Jonesborough, Washington County, Tennessee, USA DEATH 17 Jul 1899 (aged 77) Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas, USA BURIAL Oak Grove Cemetery Conway, Faulkner County, Arkansas,

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According to Pence Funeral Home records, M. R. Sevier died on 17 Jul 1899 at age 76 and was buried in Oak Grove Cemetery in Conway, AR. In the "remarks" section is the name "Mrs. Bulah Sevier." A monument or grave site has not been located for M. R. Sevier as of 2009.

Also according to Pence FH records, a "Mrs. Mike Sevier" died on 23 Jan 1896 at age 64 and was also buried in Oak Grove. No monument or grave site has been located for her either.

Sevier Heirs Laying Claim to Rich Lands in Alabama

from The Log Cabin Democrat, Thursday, September 24, 1903

It will be a matter of interest to the people in the vicinity of Conway to know that the attorneys in Huntsville, Ala., representing the descendants of John Sevier, first governor of Tennessee, have drawn up papers and will in a few days file a suit for the possession of lands entered by their ancestor three-quarters of a century ago. The lands to be claimed in the suit comprise about 2,000 acres in one of the richest timber and mineral regions of Alabama along the Black Warrior river in Walker county. Their value can scarcely be estimated.

Attorneys for the claimants base their claim on the act passed by the Eighteenth Congress of the United States, entitled 'an act for the relief of the representatives of John Donaldson, Stephen Heard, John Sevier, and others.' The grant of land was made in accordance with an agreement entered into between the State of Georgia and the United States, the legislature of Georgia having paid a debt due the grantees by allowing them 5,000 acres of land in the then wilderness of Alabama and Mississippi in the 1786.

The records of the United States land office show that 2,000 acres in that section of Alabama known as Walker county was duly entered by the grantees. A search of all other records, it is said, fails to show in what way the owners of these lands disposed of their holdings. The present owners have never been able to perfect their titles by tracing ownership back to the original owners. The payment of taxes on the lands was considered the chief obstacle in the way of the claimants, but it is asserted that a very small acreage of the lands has ever been assessed. The manner in which it escaped taxation is not known. A large tract of these lands was sold in Huntsville at public auction 2 years ago and the purchasers were Huntsville parties. No records show how they disposed of i, but other parties are in possession.

The land in dispute is at present owned or controlled by wealthy mining companies or individuals and the case promises protracted and expensive litigation. The Tennessee Coal , Iron & Railroad Company controls several hundred acres, and other companies in control are the Ivy Coal & Coke Company, Empire Coal Company, George and Alabama Company, and the B. M. Long estate. Among the claimants as descendants of John Sevier are Bishop E. E. Hoss, of Dallas, Tex., Martha Wilder and Emetta Humphrey of Sherman, Tex., Martha Prince of Vinita, I.T., Martha A. Sevier of Memphis, Tenn., S. S. Chisolm of Jasper Ala., R. O. Sevier of Houston, Ark., and Mrs. M. A. Whiteside of Vinita, I.T.; the heirs of R. E. Sevier and of John I. Hoss, of Conway* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Aug 3 2020, 2:08:47 UTC