Naomi (Douglas) Sevier (1743 - 1844)

Born 7 Jan 1743 in Shenandoah, Frederick County, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Wife of Valentine Sevier Jr. — married 1767 in Augusta, Virginia

Descendants

Died 17 Jul 1844 at age 101 in Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

Amy (Douglas) Sevier was a Virginia colonist.

Amy (Douglas) Sevier was part of a Southern Pioneer Family.

Naomi 'Amy' Douglas, born about 1743, was the daughter of Jonathan Douglas Sr. and Jemima Russell. She married Valentine Sevier Jr. about 1767 in Shenandoah County, Virginia Colony.^[1] Soon after, about 1771, Naomi and her family relocated to the Sycamore Shoals area of the Watauga River. There they participated in the Watauga Association and the extra-legal State of Franklin.

Her mother, Jemima Russell Douglas, married Valentine Sevier Sr. (1713-1803), her widowed father in law following the death of her husband Jonathan in 1781 and after the death of Valentine's wife in 1773.

After the Revolutionary War the family relocated to a 640 acre land grant in present day Clarkesville, Montgomery County, Tennessee.^[2] Here they built what is known as Sevier's Station, a limestone blockhouse still standing today.^[3]

In 1837, Naomi appeard before the Court of Greene County to petition for widows' benefits. The following is a partial transcription:

State of Tennessee Greene County

On this first day of May 1837 personally appeared before the Subscriber an acting Justice of the peace, and of the County Court of Greene County, it being a Court of record, Naomi Sevier, a resident of the County of Greene and State of Tennessee, aged ninety-one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 4, 1836: That she is the widow of Valentine Sevier, who, according to the best of her knowledge and belief, was a Captain in the Militia, when he entered the Service, which was during and soon after the commencement of the Revolutionary War, the precise time not recollected, that he served in various campaigns against the British and Indians, that he did not quit the Service until the close or near the close of the War, and was a Major or Colonel at that time, that she has lost all recollection of the Officers' names under whom he served, that her husband at the time he entered the service, resided in Shenandoah County and State of Virginia, and that all his services, were performed as a Volunteer. The different battles her husband was in, she is unable to state, but recollects that of Kings Mountain as one, that she was lawfully married to the said Valentine Sevier in said County of Shenandoah and State of Virginia (by the Reverend Mr. Alderson) about 70 years ago; from the record of the age of her oldest child, which, if living, would now be 69 years & 2 months old, she is enabled to state the number of years since her marriage, and that, she knows of no other testimony by which she can establish the time, that they had six children (two being twins) before the commencement of the War, and three at the death of their father, that were under sixteen years of age, namely Abraham, Joseph and Alexander, all of whom are now dead, that her husband remained in the Western Country (now called Tennessee) during the War, and died in Tennessee, on the 22nd of February 1800.

She stated that she had--at the age of about 91, mind--from a loss of memory by age, and particularly from a second spell of sickness from which she is just recovering, she has lost the recollection of many circumstances connected with the services of her husband, that would materially assist in making out her declaration, that that she has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband Valentine Sevier, as will more fully appear by referenced to the proof hereto annexed. She signed by her mark and her pension was allowed.

Naomi died on 17 July 1844 in Greene County, Tennessee.^[4] She is buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee.^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters, Pension application of Valentine Sevier W6012, Naomi, fn78Va., Transcribed by Will Graves 8/17/09 (http://www.revwarapps.org/w6012.pdf)
2. ↑ Finley, Arian. “Valentine Sevier: Pioneer Settler, Revolutionary War Colonel 1747-1800.” Visit Clarksville. Clarksville-Montgomery County Tourism Commission. Accessed December 21, 2020. (https://www.visitclarksvilletn.com/plan/clarksville-connections/government/valentine-sevier/.)
3. ↑ Jepson, Tracy. "Clarksville Beginnings: The Early History of Sevier Station – Part 1." Clarkesville Online. Accessed December 21, 2020 (https://www.clarksvilleonline.com/2014/10/20/clarksville-beginnings-early-history-sevier-station-part-1/)
4. ↑ "United States Revolutionary War Pension Payment Ledgers, 1818-1872," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q24Q-KRJT : accessed 21 December 2020), Naomi Sevier, ; citing Jonesboro, Maury, Tennessee, United States, NARA microfilm publication T718 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1962), roll 16; FHL microfilm 1,319,396.
5. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 20 December 2020), memorial page for Naomi “Amy” Douglass Sevier (1743–17 Jul 1844), Find A Grave: Memorial #33541090, citing Cedar Hill Cemetery, Greeneville, Greene County, Tennessee, USA ; Maintained by Lee Ailshie (contributor 48222094) .

• Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters Pension application of Valentine Sevier W6012 Naomi fn78Va. Transcribed by Will Graves 8/17/09
• http://revwarapps.org/w6012.pdf
• DAR Application Julia Sue Herring Barry, National Number 236267 Transcript
• Hays, Tony. Hardin County's People. Kitchen Table Press. 1986. p. 70 Transcript
• Letter from N. M. Sevier to Mr. Turner (1922). Transcript
• Sevier, C. B. and Madden, N. S. S.. Sevier Family History. Washington, D. C.: N. S. Madden. 1961.
• If you look at the profile page of Valentine Sevier-76 you will find a transcript of his will, in wich he names his wife as Jemima, but also mentions a younger female also named Jemima, and that is his grand daughter Jemima Sevier, who is also the grand daughter of Jemima Russell Douglas Sevier. Foster-19042 20:11, 22 March 2024 (UTC) I removed this as it seemed self evident that the grandparents are the grandparents even if they married each other following the death of their former spouses.