Robert Henry (1765–1863), after the Revolutionary War, moved to the area that later become Clay County. He claimed to have witnessed the signing of the Declaration of Independence when he was a young boy. Before the Civil War, he was a surveyor, a lawyer, and a physician. During that war, he distinguished himself as a war hero at the Battle of Kings Mountain. He is buried on a ridge on private land in the Tusquittee Community near Compass Creek, approximately one-forth mile directly behind the Tusquittee Mercantile Store at the junction of Tusquittee Road and Cold Branch Road. Buried next to him is his loyal slave, Julia, whom he set free, so she lived in the area until her death. Julia Knob, a mountain ridge in the Tusquittee area, is named in her honor.
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