DEATH of Mr. Sevier - Valentine
Sevier one
amongst the oldest, perhaps the very oldest citizen of our
town,
died on the night of the 24th [res]ult of chronic affection of the
liver.
There was no man in his community whose loss will be felt more than
that
of Mr. Sevier. He was between seventy and seventy-five years old, and
about
fifty years of that time was spent in the full discharge of the arduous
duties of Circuit Court Clerk.
One of the maxims of his long
and useful
life was a full discharge of duty and diligent application to business.
There is no doubt but he fell a victim to his rigid exactions(?), and
might
have lived to full four score had he served himself more and his
country
less. But he is gone, and the record of his life is without a blot or
blemish
- his name will live and be fondly cherished; while the pure
water
gurgles from his own native "Spring."
Mr. Sevier was a man of
unblemished moral
character, and he left the impress of his own high toned conservative
nature
upon the town of which he was the paternal father.
Greeneville Spy
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Valentine Sevier, son of Capt.
Robert Sevier
(nephew of Gen. John Sevier).
Born: July 8, 1780
Died: April 24, 1854
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