When Richard Hobson Fallin was born in December 1829, in Jones, Georgia, United States, his father, Jesse Fallin, was 23 and his mother, Nancy Elizabeth Middlebrook, was 27. He married Nancy Emily Bass on 24 November 1853, in Harris, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Alabama, United States in 1870 and Election Precinct 14 Rome, Tallapoosa, Alabama, United States for about 20 years. He died on 10 May 1905, in Tallapoosa, Alabama, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Tallapoosa, Alabama, 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 1830, U.S. President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act which required all Native Americans to relocate to areas west of the Mississippi River. That same year, Governor Gilmer of Georgia signed an act which claimed for Georgia all Cherokee territories within the boundaries of Georgia. The Cherokees protested the act and the case made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court. The case, Worcester v. Georgia, ruled in 1832 that the United States, not Georgia, had rights over the Cherokee territories and Georgia laws regarding the Cherokee Nation were voided. President Jackson didn’t enforce the ruling and the Cherokees did not cede their land and Georgia held a land lottery anyway for white settlers.
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Irish: variant of Fallon .
Swedish (also Fällin): probably a habitational name from placenames containing the element fall ‘fall’ (alluding to waterfalls or woodland clearings) or fäll (a placename element with many possible meanings) + the adjectival suffix -in, a derivative of Latin -in(i)us ‘relating to’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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