Capt. Robert SEVIER, brother of Col. John SEVIER, was mortally wounded at
the battle [King's Mountain] "Near the close of the action, Captain
SEVIER, while stooping to pick up his ramrod, received a buck-shot wound
near his kidney; after the action, the British Surgeon, Doctor [Uzel]
JOHNSON, endeavored to extract the shot, but failed in the effort;
dressed his wound, saying if he would remain quiet awhile, the shot could
be extracted, and he would probably recover; but if he attempted to
return home at once, his kidneys would inflame, and about the ninth day
he would expire. Fearing to be left behind, lest the Tories might wreak
their vengeance on him, he started on horseback for his Nolachucky home,
accompanied by his nephew, James SEVIER. On the ninth day, when at
Bright's Place on the Yellow Mountain, preparing their frugal meal, he
was suddenly taken worse, and died within an hour, and his remains,
wrapped in his blanket, were interred beneath a lofty mountain oak."
(source not given)
(Excerpted from King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of
King's Mountain, October 7th, 1780, and the Events Which Led to It by
Lyman C. Draper, Cincinnati, 1881, p. 303)

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