I am in suspense as to the probable or improbability of being called into the Army, a station I would prefer to any other that of being in arms to defend an injured and grossly insulted country.

In 1815 Sevier died in the Alabama Territory while conducting a survey of lands Jackson had recently acquired from the Creek tribe and was buried along the Tallapoosa River near Fort Decatur. G. Sevier's grandnephew Ambrose Hundley Sevier (1801–1848) served as one of the first U.

In the 1780s Sevier served as the only governor of the State of Franklin an early unsuccessful attempt at statehood by the trans-Appalachian settlers. At the outbreak of the War for American Independence he was chosen as a member of the Committee of Safety for the association's successor the Washington District. Sevier served as a colonel in the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780 and commanded the frontier militia in dozens of battles against the Cherokee and Chickamaugas in the 1780s and 1790s.