Robert Cleveland (1744–1812) was an American revolutionary from Wilkes County, North Carolina, and served as a captain in the Wilkes County Regiment of the North Carolina militia under his brother Colonel Benjamin Cleveland.
He was born on his father's plantation in Orange County, Virginia on June 8, 1744; along with several siblings he migrated to western North Carolina sometime around 1769.
[1] Cleveland was an acquaintance of Daniel Boone and married a Kentucky girl named Aley Mathis (1750–1791).
The grave is surrounded by an iron picket fence and is situated near the site of his old home off the Parsonsville Road.
The Battle of King's Mountain was the beginning of the successful end to the Revolution, assuring independence for the United States of America.