History of General Evan Shelby by “Tennesseans in the Revolutionary War” at TNGenWeb

The Shelby & Hart Family Papers are housed at the Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

General Shelby is buried at East Hill Cemetery in Bristol, Washington, Virginia. The historic marker 1A-65 from the Tennessee Historical Commission is located on the State Street side of the parking lot at the southwest corner of State Street and Pennsylvania Avenue.

“Born in Wales 1719, he came here about 1771. A veteran of Braddock’s Campaign and Lord Dunmore’s War, he commanded a successful expedition against the Chickamauga towns, 1779. Member of the North Carolina State Senate, 1781, and brigadier general of miltia, 1786, he declined governorship of the State of Franklin, 1787. He died Dec. 4 1794, and is buried in East Hill Cemetery.”

At the foot of the grave, there is a marker placed by the Gen. Evan Shelby Chapter, NSDAR (National Society Daughters of the American Revolution) of Owensboro, Kentucky, celebrating its 100th anniversary on October 23, 1997.