Twelve Corner Church

Catherine Sherrill, called Bonny Kate, lived from 1754 to 1838. She became the second wife of John Sevier after his first wife died several months before the Battle of Kings Mountain and was buried in an unmarked grave near Nolichucky Fort. Sevier, Tennessee's first governor, died on September 24, 1815, while on a mission to the Alabama territory with U.S. troops to fix the Creek boundary. That same year Catherine moved to a house in what is now Jackson County, where she lived until 1836.

What the plaque says

Twelve Corner Church About 11 miles north was the house to which Catherine Sherrill Sevier moved in 1815, following the death of her husband, who had been Tennessee's first governor. She lived there until June, 1836, when she moved with a son to Alabama, where she died shortly after. She is buried beside her husband in Knoxville.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cummins Falls State Park — 2.9 mi
  A 75-foot waterfall and swimming hole on the Blackburn Fork, saved from a housing development in 2011 and opened as Tennessee's 54th state park.
• Cookeville Depot Museum — 8.1 mi
  The 1909 Tennessee Central Railroad depot in Cookeville's west side, now a museum with a model of the town in 1955 and a steam engine in the yard.
• Standing Stone State Park — 14 mi
  A New Deal park on Mill Creek named for a vanished stone that Native peoples revered and railroad builders blasted, with a lake, 1930s cabins and a marbles championship.
• Burgess Falls State Park — 17 mi
  A day-use park on the Falling Water River, where a short trail passes three smaller falls on its way to a drop of more than 130 feet into a limestone gorge.

More markers nearby

• Judge John Jordan Gore — 6.8 mi
• Darwin School — 7.9 mi
• Flynn Creek Impact Crater — 8.0 mi
• Town Spring — 8.2 mi