WASHINGTON COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES -  CHEROKEE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY
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CHEROKEE BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY,
Highway 81, near Jonesboro, Tennessee:

Hon. Zachariah Isbell
circa 1722-1788
is believed to be buried in a lost grave here (NO TOMBSTONE).

Judge Zachariah Isbell, one of the 13 commissioners called "the
founders of Tennessee," was: first sheriff of Bedford Co., VA.;
first magistrate of Bedford Co. one of the founders of New London, 
first county seat of Bedford County;
captain in the French & Indian War
a magistrate in Camden Dist. (Kershaw Co.), S.C.
a magistrate in Washington Co., N.C.
one of 13 commissioners appointed to form the Watauga Settlement which 
became the State of Tennessee.

The monument at Elizabethton, TN records the names of "The Immortal
13."  (Founders of This State), but the marker misspells his name.
1772:  served on the first court in Tennessee, with John Carter, Charles
and James Robertson, & John Sevier, and he had the most court experience of 
all five justices;
1778:  served on the first court in Washington County (now Tennessee) with 
John Sevier
March 25, 1775:  witnessed a land lease from the Cherokees to Jacob Brown, 
making up a large part of Washington County and signed by several Indian 
chiefs.  The huge old tree under which the deed was signed is still there, 
but lying on the ground.

Zachariah and his son Zachariah Jr. both served in the government of the
Watauga Association, and they both fought the British in the Battle of
King's Mountain, 1780.