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- An interesting tale about "Bonnie Kate" may be found in Lyman Draper. "King's Mountain and its Heroes," p. 420, and Pat Alderman. "The Overmountain Men," p. 33:
At daybreak on 21 July 1776, several women were outside the Watauga Fort milking cows. A large body of Cherokee Indians fired on the milkers who fortunately all escaped into the fort. One of the young girls thus engaged was Catharine Sherrill, who, when she reached the gate, found it shut. She threw her bonnet over the pickets and then clambered over herself. Just as she jumped within, she was caught in the arms of John Sevier who would become her future husband four years later.
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