Katherine Sherrill Sevier

Katherine Sherrill Sevier, known as Bonny Kate, came as a girl with her parents to Tennessee from North Carolina, married John Sevier on August 14, 1780, when she was 26 years old, became the mother of eight children, and died in Russellville, Alabama, on October 7, 1836, at the age of 82. Her nearest descendants authorized S.G. Heiskell of Knoxville to move her remains from Russellville, and the County Court of Knox County, by a resolution passed on July 3, 1922, authorized him to inter her remains in this grave and erect a monument. An audience of several thousand witnessed the exercises at the reinterment on July 27, 1922. Her fame flourished as the brightest star among the pioneer women of Tennessee, and her place in history was held to be as secure as that of her heroic husband, beside whom she at last was laid to rest.

Knoxville, Tennessee · United States