GREENE COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Valentine Sevier, 24 April 1854
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                            Greeneville Spy

     Greeneville, Tennessee

          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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Notes:   Transcribed from original newspaper clipping.  Valentine Sevier, son 
of Capt. Robert Sevier (nephew of Gen. John Sevier).   
Born: July 8, 1780 ;   Died: April 24, 1854

Buried in Old Harmony Cemetery, Greeneville, Tennessee.


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