The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1910-06-16
partieularly pIeasing manner.

for the innerman.
Following lunch the crowd march
ed to the monument where a prayer
was offered by Rev. David w. Car
ter; great-great grandson of Col.
John Seuier, and the monument was
then unveiled by six little children
in white, as follows:
Robert Asher Gray, descendant of
Gen. VIM. Campbell.
Alfred Carter Crymble, descendant
of Col. John Sewer.
Evan Shelby, jr., descendant of
Col. Evan Shelby.
Samuel Doak, descenant of Rev.
Samuel Doak.
Margaret Robertson, descendant
otCharles Campbell.
Shelby Thomas, descendant of
Col. Evan Shelby.
Little Miss Margaret Robertson
is the daughter of Hon. and Mrs.
w. H. Robertson of this city.
The ber"dictiou was pronounc-
ed by Rvv. Dayton Dobbs and
the events of the day had become
history. Many prominent peo-
pie were present from Knoxville,
Bristol and Johnson City but it
is impossible to publish list of
names.
To a Knoxville woman belongs
the credit for the construction of
the Sycamore Shoals monument,
says the Knoxville Sentinel, which
was unveiled and dedicated yesterday
to the memory of the men who won
fame in the battle of Kings Noun
tain, which turned the tide of the
revolution. The shaft also stands
as a marker of the place where the
settlers gathered and started on their
journey to the Carolina battlefield.
1t was also on this spot that the
treaty of Sycamore Shoals by which
Pennsylvania was acquired from the
Cherokees, March 70, I775, was
negotiated,
Miss Ella Hunt, of Knoxville,
conceived the idea Of erecting a
monument on the historic spot to
commemorate the struggles of the
pioneer settlers, and she communi-
Gated this idea to Miss Mary Boyce
/ cmple, then srate regent of the D.
a, r. Tie idea met the hearty ap-
proval Of Miss Temple, and she at
once began planning for the con-
struction of some kind of monu-
mcnt on the scene where was nego-
tiated one of the most important
treaties of the bloody revolution.
Miss Temple soon after the
thought was suggested to her by
Miss Hunt, presented the matter to
the Bonny Kate chapter, D. A. R.,
of Knoxville and the plan was readi-
ly endorsed. However, inasmuch
as the site where the treaty was ne
gotiated and where the valiant war
riors started to the battlefield of the
north star state, was located nearer
the headquarters two other d. A. R.
chapters, it was thought advisable to
enlist the services of the women of
the John Sewer chapter, of Johnson
City, and the Sycamore shoals chap
ter, of Bristol, in the erection of the
Representatives from
the Bonny Kate chapter visited these
upper East Tennessee chapters, and
readily was the plan taken up by
them, and they proved to be just as
over the construction of
a fitting memorial as were the wo-
men of the Knoxville chapter, where
the idea originated.
1t was decided that the cost of the
monument should be equally divided |
between the three organizations and
each shares equally in the honor of
having constructed monument
which will stand Tor many long years
to come as a memorial to East Ten
nesseans who went forth to battle
for the interest of home and native
and, and also to the memory of the
women who Yesterday so beautifully
1onored the men who have long
since gone to their reward.
The monument is one of the
landsomest of its kind in the entire
and especially unique in its
The shaft stands on
rianutflar base ronstrrcted of Fast |
I rnnessee marble. while the shaft is