By killing Nolichucky Jack,
Jackson would have ended his own career in Tennessee--if Sevier's
tribe of sons had not, by a swifter means, ended it for him. At
this date Jackson was thirty-six. Sevier was fifty-eight; and he
had seventeen children.
The charges against Sevier, though pressed with all the force
that his enemies could bring to bear, came to nothing. He
remained the Governor of Tennessee for another six years--the
three terms in eight years allowed by the constitution. In 1811
he was sent to Congress for the second time, as he had
represented the Territory there twenty years earlier. He was
returned again in 1813. At the conclusion of his term in 1815 he
went into the Creek country as commissioner to determine the
Creek boundaries, and here, far from his Bonnie Kate and his
tribe, he died of fever at the age of seventy. His body was
buried with full military honors at Tuckabatchee, one of the
Creek towns. In 1889, Sevier's remains were removed to Knoxville
and a high marble spire was raised above them.
His Indian enemies forgave the chastisement he had inflicted on
them and honored him. In times of peace they would come to him
frequently for advice. And in his latter days, the chiefs would
make state visits to his home on the Nolichucky River.
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