Celia Bondurant^[1]

1762 - 1847  (84 years)

• Name	Celia Bondurant
  Born	23 Dec 1762	Lunenburg Co., Colonial Virginia
  Gender	Female
  Died	28 Mar 1847	Bedford Co., Virginia
  Person ID	I14840	My Reynolds Line
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2018

  
  

  Family	Joseph Fuqua,   b. 4 May 1756, Charlotte County, Virginia ,   d. 4 May 1829, Charlotte Co., Virginia  (Age 73 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 ,   d. Yes, date unknown + 2. Thomas Fuqua,   b. 15 Nov 1788, Virginia ,   d. 11 May 1860, Tennessee  (Age 71 years)
  Last Modified	17 Mar 2018
  Family ID	F5141	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• 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.