Gilbert  Christian,  son  of  Robert  Christian,  was  born  in
Augusta  County,  Va.,  about  1734,  and  participated  in  the
border  wars  of  1755-63.  Settling  in  the  Holston  country,
he  commanded  a  company  on  Christian's  Cherokee  cam-
paign, the  Chickamauga  expedition,  and  at  King's  Moun-
tain. He  served  as  a  Major  on  Arthur  Campbell's  expedi-
tion, figured  prominently  in  the  Franklin  Republic,  and
acted  as  a  Colonel  during  the  Cherokee  war  of  1788  till
his  death,  at  Knoxville,  in  November  1793,  when  returning
from  the  Hightower  campaign.
Moses  Shelb}%  born  about  1756,  was  severely  wounded  at
the  head  of  his  company  at  King's  Mountain.  He  served  at
the  siege  of  Savannah  in  1779,  '^^  Cowpens,  and  the  capture
of  Augusta,  in  1781 — on  one  of  which  occasions  he  received
six  sabre  wounds.  After  the  Indian  wars,  he  settled  near
New  Madrid,  Missouri,  where  he  died  September  seven-
teenth, 1828,  about  sevent3f-two  }'ears  of  age.
