C. T. Suddeth

Known as the red-haired Cherokee, Bob Benge (1762-1794) had a Cherokee mother and Scottish father. He was half-brother to Sequoyah. Raised with the Cherokee, Bob raided from southern Tennessee to the Ohio River in Kentucky. Frontier mothers used to say: You youngins be good or Captain Bench will get you. (photo of Benge’s Gap, Virginia, where he died)