Located turn left on Kimrod Dr. across the road from 708 E. Mountain View Rd., Johnson City, TN. The graves are located in a fenced area behind 3717 Kimrod Dr. A subdivision has been built on the cemetery land.
No gravestones are remaining.
Note: Historical marker at 708 E. Mountain View Rd., Johnson City, TN [U.S. 23 near outskirts of Johnson City] reads:
Isaac Hammer
0.8 mile northeast on the Old Stage Road, this pioneer, a minister of the church of the Brethren, built this two-story, with basement, log house in 1793. While not actually an inn, it was a stopping place for travelers in early days.
From History of Washington County, Tennessee, 1888 by the Watauga Association of Genealogists, pp. 72-73:
Isaac Hammer, a minister of the Church of the Brethren, settled on lower Knob Creek and built a three-story log structure for his dwelling and also used it as a stagecoach inn. He carved his name and the date, “I.H. 1793,” on one of the corner stones, which is still discernible. The building with its ten-foot fireplace is well-preserved. Isaac Hammer and his wife, who was the widow of Jacob Bowman, were buried in well marked graves on part of the old Hammer farm. Isaac Hammer was the first minister of the Church of the Brethren to live on Tennessee soil.
p.86 in the article “The Society of Friends (Quakers):
…Isaac Hammer, who lived on Knob Creek, would come to church every Wednesday to spend one hour in worship there and always spent the night with Joseph Beals.
p. 149:
ISAAC HAMMER HOUSE
Isaac Hammer was one of the first Quaker Brethren to settle in this area…
This house has been renovated and is still in use. A picture of the original log building of Knob Creek Brethren Church, built in 1834 is on p.73.
p.247:
BOWMAN FAMILY
Jacob Bowman of Rockingham County, Virginia, came to Tennessee in 1794 and bought a tract of land. He returned to Virginia to bring his family to their new home, but became ill and died before the move could be made. His widow, Susannah Milhouse Bowman, married Isaac Hammer August 11, 1795 in Rockingham County, Virginia. They moved to a log house, still standing in Johnson City, that Isaac built in 1793.
From Washington County, Tennessee Marriages, 1780-1870, by Goldene Burgner,
p. 4: May 19, 1793, Isaac Hammer –Elizabeth Bogart–by Samuel Bogart.
p. 22: September 6, 1823, Isaac Hammer–Catharine Bogart–George Hays.
From: Greene County, Tennessee Wills, by Goldene Burgner, p.45:
Isaac Hammer’s will was dated 2 February 1835 and probated 25 January 1836.
The land on Knob Creek in Washington County was left to his former wife’s children: Jacob, John, Daniel, David, Joseph Bowman and Catherine Miller. He left money to the New Hope Church.
Donated to the Washington County TNGen Web March 2013 by Robert D. & Betty Jane Hylton members of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.
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