Thomas Sevier, son of John Sevier, Jr. , and Sarah Richards Sevier, was born about 1803. He never married. He lived almost all his life with a sister, probably Eliza, in Philadelphia. In 1860 Thomas Sevier came South to visit his niece, Elizabeth, in Union City, Tennessee. He was too old for service in the Army but he sympathized strongly with the South. He was about sixty years old when he went to Corinth to see his friend of many years, General Albert Sidney Johnston. This was just before the Battle of Shiloh. General Johnston sent him up the Tennessee River in charge of Commissary boats. The boats were captured by Federal troops, and he was never seen or heard of again.
