New Historic Biographies

Contributed by John Sevier "Jack" Gibson

Valentine Sevier, The Immigrant

Valentine Sevier was born in London, England in 1712, the oldest of several children of John Sevier (Jean Xavier) and Mary Smith. This John Sevier, a Huguenot, fled France just before 1700, anglicized his name...

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Sarah Hawkins Sevier

A Tribute Given At Her Memorial On The Knoxville, Tennessee Courthouse Lawn

September 9, 2000.

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Sevier Family History CD-ROM Edition

The CD-ROM Edition of the Sevier Family History by Cora Bales Sevier and Nancy Sevier Madden, is now available. This most informative work on the Sevier family, can be purchased through JohnSevier.com.

The text is true to the original, published in 1961, with the added functionality of the included Adobe® Reader® 6.0 software and the Portable Document File (PDF) format. This digital version provides for full color images of the Coat of Arms pages and enhanced grayscale images of the original duotone pictures and illustrations from the book.

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State of Franklin on NPR

The short lived state of Franklin and it's Governor, John Sevier, were mentioned in a recent National Public Radio feature. NPR's Scott Simon interviewed Dr. Michael Toomey of the East Tennessee Historical Society about the strange history of Franklin. Click here to listen to the article.