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1756 - 1829 (73 years)
1693 - 1770 (77 years)
Birth |
1693 |
Henrico Co., Virginia Colony |
Died |
1 Jul 1770 |
Bedford Co., Virginia Colony |
Buried |
Fuquay Cemetery Bedford Co., Virginia |
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Father |
Guillaume Fouquet, b. 1667, Charles City County, Virginia Colony |
Mother |
Jane Eyre, b. 1688, Henrico Co., Virginia Colony |
Married |
1687 |
Henrico Co., Virginia Colony |
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Family |
Priscilla Owen, b. 1702, Henrico Co., Virginia Colony |
Married |
1734 |
Children |
+ | 1. Joseph Fuqua, b. 4 May 1756, Charlotte County, Virginia |
+ | 2. Elizabeth Fuqua, b. 1736, Bedford Co., Virginia Colony |
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1702 - 1779 (77 years)
Birth |
1702 |
Henrico Co., Virginia Colony |
Died |
1779 |
Bedford Co., Virginia |
Buried |
Fuqua Cemetery, Bedford Co., Virginia |
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Family |
Ralph Fuqua, b. 1693, Henrico Co., Virginia Colony |
Married |
1734 |
Children |
+ | 1. Joseph Fuqua, b. 4 May 1756, Charlotte County, Virginia |
+ | 2. Elizabeth Fuqua, b. 1736, Bedford Co., Virginia Colony |
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1762 - 1847 (84 years)
Birth |
23 Dec 1762 |
Lunenburg Co., Colonial Virginia |
Died |
28 Mar 1847 |
Bedford Co., Virginia |
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Family |
Joseph Fuqua, b. 4 May 1756, Charlotte County, Virginia [2] |
Children |
| 1. Seth Ward Fuqua, b. Bef 1794, Charlotte County, Virginia |
+ | 2. Thomas Fuqua, b. 15 Nov 1788, Virginia |
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Bef 1794 - Yes, date unknown
Birth |
Bef 1794 |
Charlotte County, Virginia |
Died |
Yes, date unknown |
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Father |
Joseph Fuqua, b. 4 May 1756, Charlotte County, Virginia |
Mother |
Celia Bondurant, b. 23 Dec 1762, Lunenburg Co., Colonial Virginia |
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1788 - 1860 (71 years)
Birth |
15 Nov 1788 |
Virginia |
Died |
11 May 1860 |
Tennessee |
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Father |
Joseph Fuqua, b. 4 May 1756, Charlotte County, Virginia |
Mother |
Celia Bondurant, b. 23 Dec 1762, Lunenburg Co., Colonial Virginia |
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Family |
Susan Steele, b. 1805, Prob. Tennessee |
Children |
| 1. John Bell Fuqua, b. 20 May 1840, Davidson County, Tennessee |
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Name |
Joseph Fuqua |
Title |
PATRIOT |
Born |
4 May 1756 |
Charlotte County, Virginia |
- Charlotte Co., Deed Book 1/218-223 place Joseph Fuqua with Thomas Vaughn and Thomas Carter with Erwin Patterson and John Kersey when Thomas Vaughn and John Vaughn sell 18 a. to Joseph Fuqua 6 Jun 1768.
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Gender |
Male |
Died |
4 May 1829 |
Charlotte Co., Virginia |
Person ID |
I14839 |
My Reynolds Line |
Last Modified |
24 Apr 2019 |
Father |
Ralph Fuqua, b. 1693, Henrico Co., Virginia Colony , d. 1 Jul 1770, Bedford Co., Virginia Colony (Age 77 years) |
Mother |
Priscilla Owen, b. 1702, Henrico Co., Virginia Colony , d. 1779, Bedford Co., Virginia (Age 77 years) |
Married |
1734 |
Notes |
- Youngest Son of Guillaume Fouquet (1667-1698) and Jane Eyre (1671 ? 1765)
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Family ID |
F7379 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Family |
Celia Bondurant, b. 23 Dec 1762, Lunenburg Co., Colonial Virginia , d. 28 Mar 1847, Bedford Co., Virginia (Age 84 years) |
Married |
- Other Children of Joseph and Celia Bondurant Fuqua:
Silas Fuqua, 1783?1834
Jacob Fuqua, 1784?1825
Ephraim Fuqua, 1790?1870
Benjamin Fuqua, 1793?1836
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Children |
| 1. Seth Ward Fuqua, b. Bef 1794, Charlotte County, Virginia , d. Yes, date unknown |
+ | 2. Thomas Fuqua, b. 15 Nov 1788, Virginia , d. 11 May 1860, Tennessee (Age 71 years) |
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Last Modified |
17 Mar 2018 |
Family ID |
F5141 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S158] CHARLOTTE COUNTY, VIRGINIA EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ORPAHNS AND OTHER CHILDREN ABSTRACTED AND COMPILED BY JOANNE LOVELACE NANCE; The N. W. Lapin Press Charlottesville, Virginia 1989., _CharlotteCoVA_orphans.pdf.
Thomas Smith appointed guardian to Seth Ward Fuqua, orphan of Joseph Fuqua. p. 186
See Documents
- [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13082358/joseph-fuqua.
Joseph Fuqua
Birth 4 May 1756, Lunenburg County, Virginia
Death 4 May 1829 (aged 73), Bedford, Staunton City, Virginia
Burial Fuqua Cemetery, Bedford County, Virginia
The settler who gave the town of Liberty his land, and Texas his sons. Born on May 4, 1756 and dying May 4 seventy-three years later, Joseph Fuqua led a generally quiet life as a farmer and family man. He is remembered in Bedford today for an outstanding act of generosity he shared with another man who went on to obscurity. Joseph Fuqua and William Downing donated the 100 acres that became the site of the town established in 1782 as Liberty. He had fought in the Revolutionary War before settling in this area, enlisting Feb.22, 1776 and fighting in the battles of Cowpens and Brandywine. He was discharged in 1778. His father Ralph Fuqua had also been a Revolutionary War soldier. In 1782, the same year he donated the land for Liberty, he married the former Celia Bondurant, and they had six sons and five daughters, most of whom eventually moved to Texas.
The Fuqua's were Baptist (Joseph Fuqua was the first deacon at Lowry Meeting House, now Timber Ridge Baptist Church). The family was renowned for its hospitality. The cemetery off Orange Street in Bedford, where Joseph Fuqua is buried, was uncovered a few years ago by Mrs. R. N. Krebs, who was curator of the Bedford City/County Museum. When it was found Joseph's will provided the cemetery should never be sold , the company that had purchased it, deeded the site to the city, which maintains it today. Joseph Fuqua is also appreciated in Texas, where so many of his descendants settled. A grandson of his, 16-year old Galba Fuqua, was the youngest soldier to die at the battle of the Alamo.
Coincidentally, another one of Joseph's descendants was instrumental in providing one of Bedford's best - known landmarks. Fred Fuqua of Lynchburg, Virginia, a direct descendant of Joseph's son Abraham Fuqua, who stayed in Bedford County, was the contractor who built the present courthouse in 1930. It was Fred Fuqua who formally presented the Fuqua Cemetery to the city in the dedication ceremony, that took place in 1975.
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