She was born in Tennessee the daughter and granddaughter of famous Morgan military men who were also successful businessmen who spawned many children; she was also the granddaughter of a Cherokee woman who married Joseph Sevier (originally Xavier, and descended from one of the first saints of the Catholic Church), which makes her descendants the children of Cherokees as well as of the first governor of Tennessee John Sevier — a notorious fighter who destroyed indigenous peoples’ culture and drove them from their land for immigrants. Is our family conflicted? You bet we are!