At the battle of Kings Mountain, Robert Sevier (brother of John Sevier, husband of the daughter of Maj. Charles Robertson, Keziah) was severely wounded. He wanted to go home with the other Wataugans. He was advised by the loyalist doctor at Kings Mountain (whom I believe to have been Uzal Johnson) that if he travelled prior to the removal of the lead fragments that he would die. Realizing that if he remained at KM that he would have been killed by local loyalists, he opted to try to reach home. He died and was buried in the Bright family cemetery on the Toe River, near presentday Spruce Pine NC. The irony is that Bright was a loyalist. I have tried for the last two years to locate this cemetery without success. I knew that on September 28 of each year that the Overmountain Victory Trail Association re-enactors, on their trek from VA to Kings Mountain SC, visited the cemetery and fired a volley over Sevier's grave. Last year, I was working at Cowpens NB park on that day and could not be present. This year, I was not working and made my way to Spruce Pine NC and then NE on highway 19E. I looked in vain for the OVTA re-enactors up US19E. I retraced my route and checked in with a lady in her 80s with whom I had talked two years ago. She told me that the OVTA had been by her place 3 hours earlier. She gave me directions to the cemetery where Sevier was buried (she had not known this two years ago). In order to reach the site, I had to follow a crude semi-road perhaps 1.5 miles down into the woods, crossing a very old one-way bridge. I took a relatively new Mazda mini-van on a road suitable for 4WD, thru mudholes, around plowed fields, and into the woods. We kept the windows closed to avoid briars. On the way in, I met the OVTA who re-enact the overmountain trek to Kings Mountain each year. They had already done their volley and were on the way out. Among their number was a 13-year-old home-schooler I had met last year, replete with period garb and his own black powder gun. I asked him if they were going to wade across Cherokee Ford (Broad River) as they had done last year. They had found that some spots were far deeper than expected, and he showed no enthusiasm for doing so again this year. But is a 2-week re-enactment trek from VA to SC not a great educational experience for a kid? I finally reached the cemetery in a wooded area. The small graveyard is in good condition, surrounded by a split-rail fence. An OVTA trail marker is by its entrance as well as a weatherproof description of who is buried there. Only Sevier's gravestone has any inscription. There is also a flat granite marker on his grave provided by the Sevier family. After taking a gps reading and taking a few digital pictures, we ate the lunch we had brought with us. My wife says it will be some time before she chides me again about taking her to an interesting place to eat out! For those to whom this is important the coordinates of Robert Sevier's grave are 35.930175, -81.996258. I can provide explicit instructions on how to get there to any to whom it is of interest. The site is on private property and requires checking in with a guard before proceeding into the woods. John Robertson