{"id":5358,"date":"2013-07-03T18:02:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T22:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/?p=5358"},"modified":"2013-09-07T09:39:07","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T13:39:07","slug":"zion-lutheran-church-cemetery-rock-hill-baptist-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/zion-lutheran-church-cemetery-rock-hill-baptist-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery (Rock Hill Baptist Church)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Located on the corner of Rock Hill Lane and Johnson\u2019s Chapel Road, west of Bristol, near the Reedy Creek section of Sullivan County.\u00a0 The cemetery is in the yard of the church and is very well maintained.\u00a0 There was one illegible fieldstone marker that bore only a few legible letters.<\/p>\n

Photographed and transcribed 4 Jan 2005 by Betty Jane Hylton, Donna Briggs, Chester Willis and Bob Shell, part of the Cemetery Survey Team of Northeast Tennessee.<\/p>\n

Map location<\/a>: Blountville Quad<\/p>\n

GPS location: 36\u00b035.53N\u00a0 082\u00b016.51W\u00a0 Elevation: 1873 ft.<\/p>\n

USGS\u00a0GNIS\u00a0ID: 1326500<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Zion<\/a><\/p>\n

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NAME<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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BIRTH<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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DEATH<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n

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COMMENTS<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Shaffer, John<\/td>\n[No date]<\/td>\n27 Apr 1847<\/td>\nPVT.\u00a0 Benewit\u2019s VA Co. Rev. War<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barb, Jacob<\/td>\n10 Oct 1767<\/td>\n27 Jan 1845<\/td>\nIn memory of the first of Wash. Co. VA\u00a0 [Shares marker with Mary Barbara Miller Barb]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Barb, Mary Barbara Miller<\/td>\n1767<\/td>\n1847<\/td>\nIn memory of the first of Wash. Co. VA\u00a0 [Shares marker with Jacob Barb]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The following may also be buried here:<\/p>\n

Jacob Miller<\/b>, died 1826 in Washington County, VA (he had requested to be buried here, according to his will)<\/p>\n

Henry Miller<\/b>, son of Jacob, who died ca. 1825.<\/p>\n

Henry Kelknar<\/b> who died 1816 in Washington County, VA<\/p>\n

Eve Kelknar Shaffer<\/b>, daughter of Henry Kelknar, and wife of John Shaffer, Sr. She died 8 May 1830, according to the family Bible record.<\/p>\n

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Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery<\/h2>\n

The property where the church and cemetery is located originally belonged to John Shaffer, Senior.\u00a0 He gave the land and built the first church, known as \u201cSHAVERS\u201d and also \u201cZION\u201d.\u00a0 In 1810 John Shaffer built a log building, which burned soon afterward and had to be rebuilt in 1811.\u00a0 In 1872 another frame church was built. The last church was built in 1911.\u00a0 The members of this congregation merged with Immanuel Lutheran Church in 1962 and the building was sold.\u00a0 It is now Rock Hill Baptist Church.\u00a0 The building has been remodeled.\u00a0 (Reference: The Lutheran Church in Virginia, 1717 \u2013 1962<\/em>, p. 612)<\/p>\n

Charles M. Bennett wrote in 1960:\u00a0 \u201c\u2026church and Cemetery located on the headwaters of Back Creek, which is a tributary of Beaver Creek.\u00a0 There is no doubt that most of the early German settlers of this community were buried here.\u00a0 Nearly all the cemetery has been destroyed; there were only a few of the fieldstone markers left in place; only one grave with a legible marker was found.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Located on the corner of Rock Hill Lane and Johnson\u2019s Chapel Road, west of Bristol, near the Reedy Creek section of Sullivan County.\u00a0 The cemetery is in the yard of the church and is very well maintained.\u00a0 There was one …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cemeteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5358"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5835,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5358\/revisions\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}