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PATRIOT Joseph Fuqua

PATRIOT Joseph Fuqua[1]

Male 1756 - 1829  (73 years)

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  • Name Joseph Fuqua 
    Title PATRIOT 
    Born 4 May 1756  Charlotte County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 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.
    Gender Male 
    Died 4 May 1829  Charlotte Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I14839  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 24 Apr 2019 

    Father Ralph Fuqua,   b. 1693, Henrico Co., Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jul 1770, Bedford Co., Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Mother Priscilla Owen,   b. 1702, Henrico Co., Virginia Colony Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1779, Bedford Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 77 years) 
    Married 1734 
    Notes 
    • Youngest Son of Guillaume Fouquet (1667-1698) and Jane Eyre (1671 ? 1765)
    Family ID F7379  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Celia Bondurant,   b. 23 Dec 1762, Lunenburg Co., Colonial Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Mar 1847, Bedford Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (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

    Children 
     1. Seth Ward Fuqua,   b. Bef 1794, Charlotte County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
    +2. Thomas Fuqua,   b. 15 Nov 1788, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 May 1860, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)
    Last Modified 17 Mar 2018 
    Family ID F5141  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos
    Joseph Fuqua
    Joseph Fuqua
    hs14839JosephFuqua.jpg

    Documents
    Charlotte Co., Virginia Deeds for Carters, Greens, and Others
    Charlotte Co., Virginia Deeds for Carters, Greens, and Others
    CharlotteCoVA1765-1771DB1-2.pdf

  • Sources 
    1. [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

    2. [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.