Joseph Sevier, first child of Governor John Sevier and his first wife, Sarah Hawkins Sevier, was born in Rockingham County in 1762, as is shown by the fact that at the Battle of King's Mountain (October 7, 1780) he was just eighteen years old.
Joseph Sevier was with his father, General Sevier, in many of his Indian Battles and Campaigns. At the Battle of King's Mountain he was the last man to cease firing, disobeying the command to cease, crying, "They have killed my father! They have killed my father!"* It was his uncle, Robert Sevier, however, who had fallen and was mortally wounded.
Joseph Sevier married a Cherokee Indian girl, Elizabeth Lowry. Elizabeth Lowry's father was George Lowry, a Scotchman, and her mother was Octlootsa, daughter of the great chief, Oconstota.
