When Hasten Blalock was born on 3 September 1827, in Person, North Carolina, United States, his father, Barnett Blalock, was 27 and his mother, Prudence Oakley, was 31. He married Martha Rebecca Blalock on 18 November 1852, in Person, North Carolina, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 6 daughters. He died on 7 March 1908, in his hometown, at the age of 80, and was buried in Mangum Township, Durham, North Carolina, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
The first state fair in North Carolina was held in Raleigh and was put on by the North Carolina State Agricultural Society in 1853. The fair has been continuous except for during the American Civil War and Reconstruction and WWII.
English: variant of Blacklock .
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