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SUBMITTED BY: Judith Jones DAVIS
e-mail and/or snail mail: JudyJDavis@aol.com
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HUSBAND: Gilbert Elbethel Lafayette FALLS
date and place of birth: 16 December 1835 North Carolina
date and place of marriage: 7 September 1882 Fannin County, Georgia
other marriages: Ruth Ellendor McCann HICKEY on 3 July 1854 Union County,
Georgia
military service:
date and place of death: 6 October 1908 Blue Ridge, Fannin County, Georgia
father: Gilbert FALLS
mother: Bathsheba CUNNINGHAM
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WIFE: Alice Victoria GREEN
date and place of birth: 22 March 1865 Fannin County, Georgia
other marriages: William H. Travis on 15 May 1911 Walker County, Georgia
date and place of death: 10 November 1943 Chattanooga, Hamilton County,
Tennessee
mother's father: George Newton GREEN
mother's mother: Catherine WEAVER
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CHILD 1: George Emory FALLS
date and place of birth: 25 July 1884 Fannin County, Georgia
married: Laura Adaline GARLAND
date and place of marriage: 23 December 1906 Fannin County, Georgia
other marriages:
date and place of death: 27 October 1935 Chattanooga, Tennessee
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CHILD 2: John "Harry" FALLS, Sr.
date and place of birth: 20 August 1888 Fannin County, Georgia
married: Ella Nora JONES
date and place of marriage: 13 October 1908 Rossville, Walker County,
Georgia
other marriages: Cora ALEXANDER on 4 February 1906 Fannin County, Georgia
date and place of death: 5 June 1921 Calera, Shelby County, Alabama
buried: Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama
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CHILD 3: Annie Belle FALLS
date and place of birth: 11 August 1894 Fannin County, Georgia
married: Wade A. LOWERY
date and place of marriage: 17 September 1918 Walker County, Georgiaother
marriages: Henry HATFIELD
date and place of death: 3 July 1953 Chattanooga, Tennessee
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CHILD 4: Texicanna {Texas} FALLS
date and place of birth: 25 January 1897 Fannin County, Alabama
married: Guy Eugene DUNAGAN
date and place of marriage: 7 April 1912 Walker County, Georgia
other marriages: George McCULLEY in 1940
date and place of death: 10 September 1972 Fort Oglethorpe, Catoosa County, GA
buried: Dalton, Georgia
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CHILD 5: Juanita FALLS
date and place of birth: 3 January 1901 Fannin County, Georgia
married: Ernest Hugh MACKEY
date and place of marriage: before 1936
other marriages: Lake GALLANT on 31 July 1917 Walker County, Georgia
date and place of death: 8 August 1972 Cleveland, Tennessee
buried: Chattanooga, Tennessee
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SOURCES:
census of, 1860-1910 Fannin County, Georgia
Fannin County, Georgia deed book B, page 429, page 430, 431, page 431, 432
Fannin County, Georgia Homestead book A, page 58, 59, 173,
Fannin County, Georgia deed book F, page 217-218, deed from Gilbert E.L.
Falls to his dau. Margaret A. Davenport and William H. Davenport
Fannin County, Georgia deed book K, page 703, 704, dated 3 Jan 1890,
Gilbert
EL Falls sold to Alice V. Falls for 25.00 of her own money and the natural
love and affection he has toward her, lot 312, 8th dist., 2nd. sect. cont.
160 acres, wit. E.S. Green, N.B. Culcher, NP, rec. 16 July 1890
Fannin County, Georgia deeds, numerous
Family Bible of G.E.L.Falls, NY American Bible Soc. 1890, in possession of
Barbara Mackey Chisson, Cleveland, Tenn.
Photocopy of the business card of Dr. G.E.L. Falls, also of his Druggists
Certificate for life, dated 1 April 1876, original of which is in
possession
of his granddaughter Margaret Falls Smith, Hoover, Alabama, also her Family
History Book,
State of Georgia, Bibb County, Jan. term 1875, page 254, application of
Gilbert E.L. Falls to American Board of Physicians for license to practice
medicine and surgery in said state; copied by Betty Falls Breakbill
"Facets of Fannin", page 22, T7, Office of the Clerk of Superior Court,
Gilbert E.L. Falls served August 1875-May 1877.
Pension application of Gilbert E.L. Falls, #1375492, National Archives,
pension rejected, claimed to be spy and scout, US vols. He was invalid and
in failing health in 1908 when he applied. Includes letter from J.M. Davis, MD
as to his condition. Letter from Martin B. Ewing, late Lt. Col. 2nd OH
Artil., Police Hd qts. City Hall, City of Cincinnati, on his behalf.
Letters
from Dr. Falls. {14 pages in all.}
Microfilm of Confederate service cards; G.E.L. Falls, CoE, 25th Batt. Ga.
Inf., provost guard, Sergeant; Gilbert E.L.Falls, Co. H, 52Ga Inf.
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NOTES: Gilbert divorced Ruth then married Alice
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