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John Bell Fuqua[1]

Male 1840 - 1899  (58 years)


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  • Name John Bell Fuqua 
    Born 20 May 1840  Davidson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 6 May 1899  Davidson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Fuqua-Vanderville Cemetery Davidson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Person ID I19877  My Reynolds Line | Descendants of Thomas Carter of Barford
    Last Modified 24 Apr 2019 

    Father 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) 
    Mother Susan Steele,   b. 1805, Prob. Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F7380  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Sophia B. Parthena Carter,   b. 8 Aug 1838, Prob. Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 11 Feb 1920, Davidson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 81 years) 
    Married
    • Children of Sophia Carter
      Nancy Ann Anderson McClendon, 1857?1937
      Emma Jane Fuqua Hunt, 1863?1929
      Susan Fuqua Malone, 1867?1937
      John William Fuqua, 1869?1933
      Thomas W. Fuqua, 1871?1873
      James E Fuqua, 1875?1907
      Ephraim Harris Fuqua, 1879?1944

    Last Modified 24 Apr 2019 
    Family ID F7381  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    John Carter Bible
    John Carter Bible
    BibleJohnCarterinKY.pdf

  • Sources 
    1. [S59] Bible Record, John Carter's Bible Record .
      JOHN CARTER BIBLE 1797
      I AM COPYING THIS BIBLE JUST AS IT IS WITH MISSPELLINGS AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS.
      JOHN CARTER WAS this descendant's 4th GREAT GRANDFATHER
      John Carter was married Febuary the 26 1789
      Christopher C. Carter was born april 18 1791
      Sophier B. Carter was born october 19 1796
      Walter O. Carter was born april 19 1800
      John Carter was married the 2 time april the 18th 1816
      Pertheny Carter was born March 22 1817
      Polly Carter Simmons was born October the 25 1815
      John Carter Jr. was born September the 29 1818
      THIS BEGINS ANOTHER PERSONS HANDWRITING
      Walter O. Carter was married September the 11th 1823
      Amanday P. Carter was born July
      John B. Carter was bornd August the 17 1826
      Margret ann Carter was born April the 10 1829
      Polly P. Carter was Born December the 3 1833
      Sophier B. Pertheney Carter was born August the 8 1838
      THE ABOVE SECTION HAD INK SPILT ON IT AND THE PERSON COPIED IT ON THE NEXT PAGE AS SHOWN BELOW WITH ADDITIONS.
      Walter O. Carter Was married September the 11 1823
      Amanda P. Carter was bornd July the 22 1824
      John B. Carter was bornd August the 17 1826
      Margaret Ann Carter was born April the 10 1829
      Polly P. Carter was born december the 3 1834
      Sophier B. petheny Carter was bornd August the 8 1838
      William Henry Harison Carter was bornd March the 2 1841
      IN A DIFFERENT HANDWRITING
      and died Oct 7 1922
      AND BACK TO THE OTHER PERSON'S HANDWRITING
      James Henry Harrison Carter was bornd March the 2 1841
      W. O. Carter was maried the second time Febuary the 2 1850
      Johann Carter was born Nov the 23rd 1850
      THIS NEXT PAGE IS SOMEONE ELSE'S HANDWRITING
      John B. Fuqua was born Apr. 20 1840
      Sophia P. Fuqua was born Aug 8 1838
      John B. Fuqua and Sophia P. Mayo was marred sept 30 1860
      Nancy A. Anderson was born Oct the 8 1858
      Emma J, Fuqua was born Apl 15 1863
      mary E. Fuqua was born july 16 1861
      Susan E. Fuqua was born jan12 1867
      THIS BIBLE WAS IN A HOUSE FIRE DURING THE CIVIL WAR IN TENNESSEE AND THE LEATHER COVER AND PART OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WERE BURNT OFF THE BIBLE. THE COVER WAS REPLACED BY WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON CARTER. HOWEVER THE TITLE PAGE IS STILL INTACT.
      Permission to post this bible given by the current owner, I took these photographs personally.

    2. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36783651/john-bell-fuqua.

    3. [S59] Bible Record, John Carter's Bible Record .
      Shannon Shelton Williford added 8 new photos.
      March 15 at 2:24pm

      Western Kentucky
      Uploaded March 15, 2018
      JOHN CARTER BIBLE 1797
      I AM COPYING THIS BIBLE JUST AS IT IS WITH MISSPELLINGS AND GRAMMATICAL ERRORS.
      JOHN CARTER WAS this descendant's 4th GREAT GRANDFATHER
      John Carter was married febuary the 26 1789
      Christopher C. Carter was born april 18 1791
      Sophier B. Carter was born october 19 1796
      Walter O. Carter was born april 19 1800
      John Carter was married the 2 time april the 18th 1816
      Pertheny Carter was born March 22 1817
      Polly Carter Simmons was born October the 25 1815
      John Carter Jr. was born September the 29 1818
      THIS BEGINS ANOTHER PERSONS HANDWRITING
      Walter O. Carter was married September the 11th 1823
      Amanday P. Carter was born July
      John B. Carter was bornd August the 17 1826
      Margret ann Carter was born April the 10 1829
      Polly P. Carter was Born December the 3 1833
      Sophier B. Pertheney Carter was born August the 8 1838
      THE ABOVE SECTION HAD INK SPILT ON IT AND THE PERSON COPIED IT ON THE NEXT PAGE AS SHOWN BELOW WITH ADDITIONS.
      Walter O. Carter Was married September the 11 1823
      Amanda P. Carter was bornd July the 22 1824
      John B. Carter was bornd August the 17 1826
      Margaret Ann Carter was born April the 10 1829
      Polly P. Carter was born december the 3 1834
      Sophier B. petheny Carter was bornd August the 8 1838
      William Henry Harison Carter was bornd March the 2 1841
      IN A DIFFERENT HANDWRITING
      and died Oct 7 1922
      AND BACK TO THE OTHER PERSON'S HANDWRITING
      James Henry Harrison Carter was bornd March the 2 1841
      W. O. Carter was maried the second time Febuary the 2 1850
      Johann Carter was born Nov the 23rd 1850
      THIS NEXT PAGE IS SOMEONE ELSE'S HANDWRITING
      John B. Fuqua was born Apr. 20 1840
      Sophia P. Fuqua was born Aug 8 1838
      John B. Fuqua and Sophia P. Mayo was marred sept 30 1860
      Nancy A. Anderson was born Oct the 8 1858
      Emma J, Fuqua was born Apl 15 1863
      mary E. Fuqua was born july 16 1861
      Susan E. Fuqua was born jan12 1867
      THIS BIBLE WAS IN A HOUSE FIRE DURING THE CIVIL WAR IN TENNESSEE AND THE LEATHER COVER AND PART OF THE NEW TESTAMENT WERE BURNT OFF THE BIBLE. THE COVER WAS REPLACED BY WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON CARTER. HOWEVER THE TITLE PAGE IS STILL INTACT.
      Permission to post this bible given by the current owner, I took these photographs personally.

    4. [S48] Ancestry Link, https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=801&p=surnames.fuqua.
      See if you can follow this: Susan Steele - married to Thomas Fuqua - is my direct ancestress, and I have done some research into her family. Their son, John Bell Fuqua, married Sophia Pathena Carter Mays/Mayo Anderson (my gggrndmthr). It was her third marriage (she was widowd twice before she turned 18), his first. Her father, Walter O Carter - widowed twice himself, married for the third time between 1850-1860. His third wife was Anne(a) Steele Bryant Vandeville - mentioned in this letter. That meant John Bell Fuqua's Aunt Anna (his mother susan's sister) became his step-mother-in-law...small world, isn't it?

      BTW, Walter O (aka W.O.) Carter's FIRST wife - Sophia's mother - was Nancy Agnes Blair, descended from the John-Thomas-Hugh Blair emigrees from Ireland the previous century.
      I am descended from Archibald Buchanan Steele, son of Andrew Steele and Martha Buchanan, b. Augusta Co., VA; Andrew and Martha died in Davidson Co., TN. Archibald moved to Mississippi before 1816. There are five of us researching Archibald, and we knew he had been married before and had a son, Harper Buchanan Steele, born in TN.
      Before I found the following letter, none of us had been aware of any daughters. You can imagine our surprise at discovering that he had in addition to Harper, a daughter named Anna and one named Susan. The letter will explain more. Anna must have married a BRYANT before she married John Vanderville (the letter says Vandever), but everything else about her checks out. Anna and Susan were alive when their uncle, Samuel Steele, wrote the letter from Stone's River, TN.

      Please let me know what you think. Archibald's grandparents were Agnes Bowen McFerrin and Archibald Buchanan, who settled in the Clover Bottom area of Nashville. Agnes was the daughter of John Bowen and Lily McIlhaney of Augusta Co., VA.



      LETTER FROM SAMUEL STEELE TO
      ARCHIBALD BUCHANAN STEELE

      DATED APRIL 22nd , 1853
      STONES RIVER (TN)

      POSTMARKED
      NASHVILLE, TN, APR 30 5(?)

      ADDRESSED TO
      MR. A. B. STEELE
      ZION HILL P.O.
      AMITE COUNTY
      MISSISSIPPI

      TRANSCRIBED FROM COPY OF MICROFILM
      BY
      MILDRED BRADY VENITUCCI


      MICROFILM COPY PREPARED BY
      PHOTODUPLICATIONS DEPARTMENT
      LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
      FEBRUARY, 1972


      All the words on the following pages appear on the handwritten document. I have added punctuation for clarity in some instances. When you receive your copy of the original, please study it and correct it if you think it needs it.

      Mildred B. Venitucci, September 7, 2002

      Direct your letters to Stewarts ferry P.O.


      Stones River April 22 1853

      I received your letter this day 22 of April â?? Which gave me great satisfaction to hear of you from your own pen that you are yet living. Our friends has been taken from us. Let us submit God is two wise to err and too good to do wrong, perhaps our loss is there gain â?? I am glad to hear of you and your family being in common health Still. I am not well nor never expect to be in this life. You wished to no how many of Our Brothers and Sisters living. John is living on the Caney Fork, is married again, one child. Andrew was living last account in the state of Illinois. Beca last account lived in Misuri state â?? there was 11 of us children â?? 3 is all I no of Beside you and myself. I heard from John not long since. Rebeca and Andrew I have not heard from in years â?? they may be dead â?? John Castleman is living at same place â?? he is very hard of hearing â?? Jacob Earheart has moved to Illinois State. More sikneys (sickness) in this neighborhood than ever known, some say for ten, some say for fifteen year all put together. First death at my home my wife and her sister Rebeca said to be Cholera â?? fever and flu (?) was most fatal. In three months it was thought there were over fifty deaths â?? it was a distressing time. Son James Steele died at Orelans in 1849. I was security for him buying cedar and nearly broke me up â?? Still I have a plenty left with Care to do me my lifetime. My wish is to come and see you before I die, but is this using care â?? to take a cabin passage and then a stage from Natchez to your house â?? I said with CARE I had enough.

      You stated you wished to no something concerning your children. They are both living and each of them has grandchildren. John Vandever is dead and Anna married again to a man named Carter â?? a widower â?? he was a son-in-law to old John Blair â?? they are doing wellâ??has several negroes and a home of their own. As for Susan and Tommy Fuqua (or Ferguson?), Tommy is still trying to preach. They are both trying to serve God and get to Heaven. As for this worldsâ?? goods they have plenty â?? a home of their own and several negroes. They both have children well thought of and the most of them thatâ??s grown profess Religion. Susanâ??s all Baptist and Annaâ??s all Methodist â?? the most difference now is one wants a little more water than the other but its not all the water in the ocean can wash the Dismal Stain away â?? ye must Be Born Again- I must state that Jacob Earheart professed Religion since he moved to the Illinois â?? you stated you wished to no how much Scrip (?) I received â?? 160 acre Land Warrant â?? I sent on two Discharges â?? one for Six Month the other for three months â?? the three months the time we went to Natchez. I also sent an account of three month in Hammonds Company without a Discharge. In sending my warrant they took no account of the three months trip to Natchez, the reason was as I understand, the office in 1813 or 14 was burnt up. They at the War Department certainly no that in 1803 Col. Dorertyâ??s Regiment of Mounted Volunteers went from Tennessee for New Orleans â?? if your own oaths wonâ??t prove a scrip or land warrant I think it a doutfull case at this time. I no no one that could make an accurate statement at this time. If you only served three months it only would bring you 40 acres.

      I could as well as I can recollect make this statement: you served three months in Captain Thomas Williamson Company as a private in Col. Dorertys Regiment of Mounted Militia from East Tennessee.

      Brother, grant me in your next letter one request: from your statements I cannot tell whether you have passed from Death unto Life. Do let me no (plainly?) if you have been born again of the spirit, if you no the time and place where you received that Faith that works by love and purifies the heart, and if you could â?? with Old David â?? say My sins are Separated from me as far as the East from the West and that the love of God is Shead Abroad in my heart by the Holy ghost given unto me. We may have but little of this worldâ??s goods and say its enough if we can but get to heaven. We may have good desires and a hope of getting to heaven when we dieâ??may work and pray and honestly live a Moral life and without faith its impossible to please God. We must have a living faith. Ye must be born again â?? Brother, if you got Religion, I expect to meet you in Heaven. I have been saying this to myself â?? If my brother has got religion all is well if he keeps it â?? if he has not and my goin to see him would be a means in the hand of God of his Conversion here am I. Lord, open the way and send me. Its possible for us to have Every Doubt removed and see our way clear to heavenâ??give my respects to your family and accepting of my sincere wish for your Safe Arival in Heaven.

      If you have an old Methodist near you, read this letter to him.

      I remain your Brother Unto Death, Samuel Steele

      To A. B. Steele

    5. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76622037/sophia-b_pathena-fuqua.
      Sophia B. Pathena Carter Fuqua
      Birth 8 Aug 1838
      Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
      Death 11 Feb 1920 (aged 81)
      Davidson County, Tennessee, USA
      Burial
      Mount Juliet Memorial Gardens
      Mount Juliet, Wilson County, Tennessee
      Her father was Walter O. Carter born 19 April 1800 and mother Nancy Blair.

      Sophia Pathena Carter and David N. Anderson were married January 3, 1857 in Davidson County, Tennessee.

      Sophia Pathena (Carter) Anderson and Stephen Mayo were married September 18, 1859 in Davidson County, Tennessee.

      Sophia Pathena (Carter) Mayo and John Bell Fuqua were married September 29, 1860 in Davidson County, Tennessee.

      She was the mother of eight known children; Nancy Ann (Anderson) McClendon, Emma Jane (Fuqua) Hunt, Susan Ellen (Fuqua) Malone, John William Fuqua, Thomas W. Fuqua, James E. Fuqua, Alvin Fuqua and Ephraim Harris Fuqua.