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  • ID: I934
  • Name: John Samuel FAIN 1
  • Sex: M
  • Birth: 14 Dec 1797 in Buncombe County, North Carolina 1
  • Death: 15 Jul 1873 in Fannin County, Georgia 1
  • Burial: Jul 1873 Morganton Baptist Church Cemetery - Fannin County, Georgia 1
  • Note:

    John Fain came into Habersham County, Georgia from Pendleton District, South Carolina before 1820. By 1834 they had moved to Union County, Georgia and to Fannin County, Georgia (then Gilmer County) by 1840, where they lived in the Colwell Militia District.

    John Fain and Betsey Butt Fain were the parents of fifteen children, nine boys and six girls. Their oldest son was Mercer Fain, a prominent citizen of Murphy, North Carolina, where he was a merchant, land owner and the first president of the Georgia and North Carolina Railroad. Their second son was Clayton Fain, an attorney who represented Fannin and Union Counties in the Georgia Legislature around the time of the Civil War. Their fifth son was Dr. Thomas T. Fain, a Fannin County physician.

    Six of their sons served in the Civil War, one in the Union Army and five in the Confederate States Army. Clayton Fain was in the Union soldier, a Captain in the Georgia Volunteers of the U. S. Army. He was killed by a Confederate guerilla at Cooperhill, Tennessee. His brothers, Ebenezer and Allen, also died in the war, while brothers Thomas, Jack, and Casuill survived.

    John Fain died July 15, 1873 and Betsey Butt Fain died October 23, 1888. Both are buried in Morganton Baptist Church Cemetery.

    1820 Census- Living in Habersham Co., Georgia. pg 123

    1840 Census - Living in Gilmer Co., Georgia, close to his father Ebenezer and brother David. pg 13

    1850 Census - 53 yrs old, living with wife and children in Gilmer Co., GA pg 372

    1860 Census - 62 yrs old, living in Notla District, Murphy P.O., Buncombe Co., North Carolina. pg 54, 194A

    1870 Census - 72 yrs old, living with his wife Elizabeth in Morganton, Fannin Co. Georgia. pg 375
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    Father: Ebenezer FAIN b: 27 Aug 1762 in Chester County, Pennsylvania
    Mother: Mary BLACK-MERCER b: 26 Nov 1762 in Georgia

    Marriage 1 Betsey BUTT b: 17 Oct 1801 in Pendleton District, South Carolina
    • Married: 26 Aug 1819
    Children
    1. Has Children Sarah C. FAIN b: 17 Dec 1821 in Georgia
    2. Has No Children George Mercer FAIN b: 19 May 1820
    3. Has No Children William Clayton FAIN b: 7 Dec 1824
    4. Has No Children Martin Dell FAIN b: 6 Dec 1826
    5. Has No Children John B. FAIN b: 15 Dec 1827
    6. Has No Children Mary A. FAIN b: 29 Dec 1829
    7. Has No Children Thomas Tillman FAIN b: 8 Feb 1832
    8. Has No Children Elizabeth FAIN b: 8 Mar 1834
    9. Has No Children Alfred Newton FAIN b: 2 Jun 1836
    10. Has No Children Ebenezer Jasper FAIN b: 23 Jul 1838
    11. Has No Children Allen Simpson FAIN b: 7 Oct 1840
    12. Has No Children Taswell C. FAIN b: 2 Aug 1842
    13. Has No Children Matilda Adeline FAIN b: 27 Apr 1844
    14. Has No Children Marion FAIN b: 23 May 1846
    15. Has No Children Marchell FAIN b: 23 May 1846

    Sources:
    1. Title: Facets of Fannin - A History of Fannin County, Georgia
      Author: Etheline Dyer Jones, Editor
      Publication: First Printing 1989 - Produced by Blue Ridge Kiwanis Club and Fannin County High School GAMA
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