Zachariah Eastin Zachariah Eastin ( 1777 - 1852 ) was an Officer in the War of 1812 and fought at Tippecanoe and River Basin , and the Thames , and retired as a Brigadier - General . Eastin was born January 17 , 1777 in Goochland County , Virginia . He was the second son Augustine Eastin and Mary S . Ford . He married Nancy A Durbin on October 25 , 1798 . To this union was born Mary F . Eastin , Henry J . Eastin , Louisa A . Eastin ( Stubblefield ) , Edward F . Eastin , Cassandra M . Eastin ( Rankin ) , Robert Eastin , Thomas Eastin , and William A . Eastin . Zachariah died on January 14 , 1852 in Henderson , Kentucky . His father Augustine Eastin was a Baptist preacher . At one time Augustine was arrested and confined in the jail at Richmond , Virginia , for preaching to the British soldiers ; and , for persisting in his purpose to continue to do so was threatened to be shot . Zachariah Eastin was seven years old when he moved with his father from Virginia to Bourbon County , Kentucky , at the time Boonesborough , and Bryant ' s Station , were established by the leaders in the Euro - American incursion into Shawnee lands . In specifying the conditions under which Virginia would accept Kentucky ' s separation at the convention in 1792 , a committee composed of James Garrard , Ambrose Dudley , and Augustine Eastin reported to the Elkhorn Baptist Association in favor of forbidding slavery in the constitution then being drafted for the new state . Slavery was a major issue in the 1792 convention that finalized the document . Zachariah served with distinction during the War of 1812 and the War against the Shawnee and their allies . He was commissioned by Governor Isaac Shelby , and W . D . Mardin , Sec . , September 10 , 1813 , and was appointed Major , 2nd Battalion , 4th Regiment , Kentucky Volunteers . He served under William Henry Harrison , and served throughout the campaign with Generals Issac Shelby , Thomas Metcalfe , Joseph Desha , and Colonel Richard M . Johnson , all through his campaigns in the West and fought at Tippecanoe and River Basin . ( 2 ) If the date of the commission is the actual date of his promotion as a Major , he must have been a Captain at the battle of Tippecanoe , which occurred November 7 , 1811 , and a Major at the battle of the Thames , which occurred late in 1813 . Before the end of the war he was made a Colonel . Captains Bowen , Cox , Negley , and John Baskett , from Kentucky , all served as officers with him . He remained in the army after the war and was promoted to Brigadier - General from that time until 1824 , when he resigned after a misunderstanding with General Desha . He retired to Henderson , Kentucky in 1843 . Zachariah died on January 14 , 1852 , in Henderson , Kentucky . ( 3 ) ( 4 ) Zachariah ’ s sons , Henry J . Eastin , Robert Eastin , Thomas Eastin , and William A . Eastin were all civil engineers . Henry J Eastin was one of the first engineers in the employ of the State of Kentucky during the period of internal improvements . Henry , Thomas , and William , constructed a saw and grist water mill through the use of a Dam on the Green River , at Spottsville , Kentucky . ( 5 ) References . ( 1 ) http : / / baptisthistoryhomepage . com / kent . early . hist . pratt . html