At 09:38 PM 9/28/2001 -0400, you wrote: >Katherine Sevier was a hero(ine) of mine. In grade school I noticed many >books about heroic men, and began looking for some about heroic women (this >was in the late 1930's). The school librarian found me one, and Sevier was >one of the women depicted. Something to do with the gates to a fort during >an Indian attack, as I recall (dimly; I haven't thought of her for a long >time). Maybe you know more about her. You speak of Catherine "Bonnie Kate" Sherrill, (bonnie means "pretty") later to be the 2nd wife of John Sevier. She was outside the gates of Fort Watuaga milking a cow when the Cherokee attacked. She ran toward the fort with the Indians in pursuit. John Sevier shot the Indian closest to her. She was an athletic young woman and leapt up the side of the fort wall as high as she could. Sevier caught her hands and pulled her inside the fort. Later, after Indians killed his first wife, Sevier married Kate. John Sevier was the commander of the Watauga fort, and commanded them at Kings Mountain (He was later governor of TN 5 times). Robert Sevier was John's older brother and was a captain. Major Charles Robertson was 2nd in command to John Sevier, and was wounded at Musgroves Mill. Robert Sevier was married to Robertson's daughter, Keziah. Some dispute Robertson having been at KM, since Sevier was there, also, and one man out of five had been left at Watauga in expectation of an Indian attack (which occurred soon after their return from KM). Using Control-F, searching for kate, you'll find mention of "Bonnie Kate" here. http://www.bookrags.com/books/cnqsw/PART17.htm http://www.shookhistory.org/Jacob%20Shook%20the%20Pioneer.htm http://www.tngenweb.org/bios/s/sevier.html http://www.nps.gov/ovvi/tn/travelog.htm