FrontCulminating his career as an attorneyteacher, codifier of law, Judge of theState Supreme Court, Judge Samuel ColeWilliams— the Dean of Tennessee Historians—provided in the 1940's the leadershipand inspiration for reawakening of in…
Two and one quarter miles east, on a ridge north of the road,is the grave of this pioneer,who was killed and scalped byIndians in 1765. He was the first white man known to have been slain in this area.
A monument marks this site.