8. John Garoutte Sevier, son of John Sevier Jr., and his third wife, Sophia Smith Garoutte Sevier, was born April 28, 1810. It will be observed that a son by the second wife is also named John Sevier. To add to the confusion, each of these is referred to at times as John Sevier, III.
John Garoutte Sevier was educated for a lawyer. In 1831 when he was twenty- one years of age he married Mary N. Mayfield. They had ten children, only five of whom lived to maturity, namely:
a. Elizabeth Evelyn Sevier
b. Henry DeCab Sevier
C. William J. Sevier
d. John Michael Sevier
e. James J. Sevier
John Garoutte Sevier and his family, including his brother, Michael Sevier and his sister, Martha Ann Sevier, who had made her home with her brother, John Garoutte Sevier, since the death of their father, John Sevier, Jr., moved about 1845, to Obion County Tennessee, near Union City, Tenn. In 1859 John and Michael again felt the call of the frontier and they went to Conway County, Arkansas. They were there only a few years when John Garoutte Sevier lost his wife and a young daughter. The War Between the States divided his family, one son going to the Northern Army. The remaining three sons joined the Confederate Army. After the War he went back to Union City to make his home with his only surviving daughter, Elizabeth Evelyn Sevier, who had married in 1854 Thomas Ransom Curlin, son of Samuel Curlin. Thomas Ransom Curlin was descended from the Curlins and Coopers, of North Carolina, the Coopers being descended from Sir Ashley Cooper, the first Earl of Shaftsbury.
