172. Zaza Dowell Brashear
He was of Scotch Irish descent. He was sheriff of Guilford County, North Carolina for several years, then he served in the North Carolina State Legislature. His death is reported to be sometime between 1821 in an article written by Edward R. Hardy and published in The Ray County Mirrow, dated Jul 1986 and 1827 in an article "Sesquicentennial 1840-1990 of Orrick Christian Church. The Ray County Mirrow is the Quarterly Publication of the Ray County Historical Society and the Ray County Genealogical Association, Richmond, Ray, MO.
She moved her family from Virgina to Ray County Missouri, shortly after her husband's, reference number 003-14176N death.
Brashear Cemetery is located north east of Orrick. Go north on Ray County EE Highway from junction with Ray County T Highway (south east corner of South Point Cemetery), about nine tenths (.9) of a mile, then make a hard right (road looks like the dive way to the house), going back about an eighth (1/8) of a mile. Road dead ends in the cemetery. She has two stones, one is a spire monument and the other is a joint flat stone shared with her daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, wife of her son, Asa D.