This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fallen/Glanton/Minter/Morris/Gilbert/Langford/Stewart(Stuart)/Peugh(Pugh)/Rawls Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Dd.2ADI/1051.1 Message Board Post: There used to be a singing group around Upson County called The Fallens. When my great grandfather, Charlie Gordon Glanton, died in 1949, the Fallens sang at his funeral. Charlie's mother was Mary Frances 'Fannie' Minter Glanton, daughter of John Hill Minter and Mary Morris, his second wife. (John Hill and third wife, Patience Gilbert, lie in rest at the Valley Grove cemetery on Atwater Road.) John Hill Minter's first wife was Elizabeth 'Liza' Fallen. He had several children by her before her early death. John Hill Minter's marriage records can be found on file in Upson County, but my source for the information came from the Minter family. I have more on the Fallens, including a copy of what I have come to call "The Langford Letter", sent to me by a member of the Stewart family, but originally circulated by the late Jack Morgan of Upson County, trying to unravel the letter's stated relations. This letter was written by one of nine children of George Washinton Langford and his second wife, Malinda H. Stuart. G. W. Langford's first wife was another Fallen, Katherine S. Fallen, by whom he had one child, Louisa Katherine Langford, who was born in 1836. Katherine S. Fallen was the sister to Elizabeth Fallen that married John Hill Minter. G.W. Langford's second wife, Malinda H. Stuart, appears to have been the sister of Joseph A. Stuart, both children of Hugh Blair Stuart and Rebecca Peugh. Joseph A. Stuart married a Mary Rawls and their daughter, Susannah Malinda Frances Stuart, married the already mentioned Charlie Gordon Glanton. The "Langford Letter" (written probably between 1900 and 1920) states: "G.W. Langford, my father, first married Miss Kittie Falin. She was the youngest daughter of Thomas and Sallie Falin. Thomas Falin is buried in Jasper County, Georgia, the same cemetery with your Grandma Langford's two little brothers, near that big dam." So Jasper County is the place to look pre-Upson. The Fallen Family is strong in the Upson/Pike area and there should be much more information out there than I have, so far. Several of the Fallens are buried at Valley Grove and I belive there are also Fallens buried at the Smyrna church - but don't quote me on that - don't have my source at hand. Hope this is a little help.