Isham Fuqua^[1]

1750 - 1815  (65 years)

• Name	Isham Fuqua
  Birth	1750	, Bedford, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1800	, Bullitt, Kentucky, USA   [2, 3]
  Death	31 May 1815	, Davidson, Tennessee, USA
  Person ID	I25878	Master
  Last Modified	11 Feb 2016

  
  

  Father	Ralph Fuqua,   b. 1693, , Charles City, Virginia, USA d. 1 Jul 1770, Russell, Bedford, Virginia, USA (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Priscilla Owen,   b. 1702, , Henrico, Virginia, USA d. 1779, Russell, Bedford, Virginia, USA (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	1734	, Henrico, Virginia, USA   [4]
  Family ID	F6635	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Hammons,   b. 1755, , Goochland, Virginia, USA d. 3 Feb 1840, , Davidson, Tennessee, USA (Age 85 years)
  Marriage	27 Jan 1777	, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA   [5]
  Children	1. Peter Fuqua,   b. 12 Feb 1778, , Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 19 Mar 1864, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA (Age 86 years)  [Father: Natural]   2. William Fuqua,   b. 17 Dec 1779, , Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 6 Sep 1846, Hannibal, Marion, Missouri, USA (Age 66 years)  [Father: Natural]   3. Elizabeth Fuqua,   b. 18 Dec 1782, , Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 7 Jul 1870, , Lawrence, Tennessee, USA (Age 87 years)  [Father: Natural]   4. Joshua Fuqua,   b. 19 Feb 1787, , Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 5 Mar 1839, , Hempstead, Arkansas, USA (Age 52 years)  [Father: Natural]   5. Thomas Fuqua,   b. 15 Nov 1788, , Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 11 May 1860, Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, USA (Age 71 years)  [Father: Natural]   6. Nathan Fuqua,   b. 6 Feb 1790, , Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 27 Feb 1852, Amory, Monroe, Mississippi, USA (Age 62 years)  [Father: Natural]   7. Jesse Jerome Fuqua,   b. 10 May 1793, , Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 9 Dec 1859, , Humphreys, Tennessee, USA (Age 66 years)  [Father: Natural]   8. Joel Fuqua,   b. 27 Mar 1797, , Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 13 May 1857, , Davidson, Tennessee, USA (Age 60 years)  [Father: Natural]   9. Mary Fuqua,   b. 22 Feb 1799, , Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 1850, , Davidson, Tennessee, USA (Age 50 years)  [Father: Natural]
  Family ID	F6637	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Feb 2016

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 1750 - , Bedford, Virginia, USA Marriage - 27 Jan 1777 - , Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA Residence - 1800 - , Bullitt, Kentucky, USA Death - 31 May 1815 - , Davidson, Tennessee, USA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  There were 2 churches that arose out of the Bedford Baptist Church(then called Little Otter Church), the Suck Spring and Timber Ridge churches. Isham Fuqua was the pastor of the Little Otter Church and ministered to these two congregations after they were formed. His Father, Joseph Fuqua, and another man, John Hewitt, were the first deacons of the Timber Ridge church which began its meetings in a one room log cabin on land purchased from William Lowry. Fuqua and Hewitt took named ownership of the property. The one room church was replaced in the 1820's by a larger building and Isham was replaced by Reverend William Leftwich. On July 3, 1969, BEDFORD BULETIN-DEMOCRAT published a "Believed List of County Men in Revolution," which apparently contained the name of Isham Fuqua. Isham Fuqua moved to Davidson County, Tennessee, in about 1805. His son, Nathan Fuqua, married Mille Carter in 1812 in Tennessee and died about 1852 in Monroe County, Mississippi. As a result of his service in the War of 1812, he was granted land near Aberdeen, Mississippi. Joshua Fuqua is listed in the Tract Book of Original Entries of Land in Monroe County, Mississippi, as purchasing land on 4 July 1836. Isham Fuqua was a Baptist minister of Bedford Co., Virginia. On 27 June 1796, he was given permission to perform marriage ceremonies, and many of his relatives were married by him, including his eldest son, the Rev. Peter Fuqua. Isham Fuqua had a family of nine children, two daughters and seven sons. Six of the seven sons also because Baptist ministers, as well as several of his grandsons. On September 25, 1804, John Otey sold to the "trustees of the Baptist Church lately convened in Liberty in the county of Bedford under the care of Isham Fuqua, their pastor, to wit: James Bramblet, John Hancock, Joseph Fuqua, and John Otey, for $15.00, one and one-half acres adjoining the town of Liberty, for the purpose of building a Baptist Meeting house on." This transaction can be found in Bedford Co., Va. Deed Book K11, on pages 1071 and 1072. The house was built of brick and was used as a church, called "Little Otter" until 1850 when it was sold and converted into a residence. In 1850, the turstees of Little Otter Church - Armistead Otey, Benjamin H. Mansfield, Abner Fuqua, Abraham Fuqua, and Adam J. Boyer - purchased from the estate of James Meyse, for $290, the lot on Main Street where the present church stands. At that time, the name was changed to Liberty Baptist Church. In 1901, the name of the town was changed to Bedford, and the name of the church then became Bedford Baptist Church. In 1805, Isham Fuqua organized Suck Spring and Timber Ridge Baptist Churches in Bedford Co., Virginia, and apparently migrated shortly after that time - or at least by 1810 - to Davidson Co., Tennessee, near Nashville. He was accompanied by most of his children. Isham Fuqua apparently died before the 1820 census, since the census lists only his wife and two children at that time.

  
  

• Sources

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