Northwest Territory in 1807. His third wife, Katharine, died on the long wagon trek to Indiana and was buried near the Cincinnati crossing of the Ohio River. A goodly number of the Boone clan also migrated to the Northwest Territory during this same period. An older son, Christian Jr, had settled in Preble County in southwestern Ohio two years earlier, and Christian Sr took up land just across the state line in Union County, Indiana. Under the Harrison Land Act of 1804 it was possible for veterans of the war to acquire land free in the Northwest Territory, and eighty acres could be purchased for two dollars an acre by anybody. Christian may have acquired his land under the provisions of this act or he may have been able to use his voucher for war service. In any case he acquired land in Union County where he lived the remaining thirteen years of his life. Christian Fall died in l82O and was buried in Union County, Indiana.
George Fall was born February 13, l789 in the Yadkin River valley of Guilford County in north central North Carolina. He was the seventh child resulting from the marriage of Christian Fall and his second wife, Magdalena Finn. George grew up in the Carolina piedmont region which had continued to be troubled with the hard feelings and bitterness left over from the battles between the regulators and the loyalists during the revolutionary war. It is not surprising therefore that the old regulator, Christian Fall, took his family and migrated with elements of the Boone clan to the Northwest Territory in 1807 when his son,George, was eighteen years of age. George's father settled in Union County, Indiana just across the state line from his son, Christian Jr, in Preble County, Ohio. George however must have gone to Clark County, Indiana since his name appears on a listing of residents of that county in 1807. Warfare with various indian tribes led by the famous Shawnee Chief Tecumseh and his brother the Prophet raged throughout western Ohio and Indiana at this time. The British, unhappy with the outcome of the revolutionary war and using bases in Canada, had continued to supply and support many of the indian raids along the frontier. In.November lell General William Henry Harrison led an expedition against the Indians, and won a complete though costly victory at the confluence of the Wabash and Tippicanoe rivers. He then burned and destroyed many indian villages. Finally war was declared against Great Britain in 1812, and George Fall volunteered in May of 1813, serving in Captain John Farlowe's company of the Eighth Regiment of Indiana Volunteers. Their company guarded the frontier near Coldwell Station as it was the practice to assign these western units such that they could also guard their homes. After tensions eased George was mustered out in July and received a bounty of forty acres for his military service. Upon returning home he married Mary (Polly) Taylor on August 21, 18l3. Mary was the grand daughter of George L. Taylor of Pennsylvania, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. George and Mary had thirteen children, nine of whom were sons, so it is no wonder that the