Benjamin Fuqua

1793 - 1836  (42 years)

• Name	Benjamin Fuqua  [1]
  Birth	23 Dec 1793	, Bedford, Virginia, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	Jan 1836	, Gonzales, Texas, USA
  Person ID	I15117	Master
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2013

  
  

  Father	Joseph Fuqua,   b. 14 May 1756, Russell, Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 4 May 1829, Liberty, Bedford, Virginia, USA (Age 72 years)
  Mother	Celia Bondurant,   b. 23 Dec 1762, , Bedford, Virginia, USA d. 28 Mar 1847, , Bedford, Virginia, USA (Age 84 years)
  Marriage	13 Nov 1782	Russell, Bedford, Virginia, USA   [2]
  Family ID	F4003	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy Gladden King,   b. 19 Jan 1818, , , Tennessee, USA d. 27 Sep 1888, Gonzales, Gonzales, Texas, USA (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	12 Jul 1834	Gonzales, Gonzales, Texas, USA
  Children	1. Mary Fuqua,   b. 6 Aug 1835, Gonzales, Gonzales, Texas, USA  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
  Family ID	F5145	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 23 Dec 1793 - , Bedford, Virginia, USA Marriage - 12 Jul 1834 - Gonzales, Gonzales, Texas, USA Death - Jan 1836 - , Gonzales, Texas, USA  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Notes

  Benjamin Fuqua http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=5e539465-d93b-44d3-9064-9301d59f98ae&tid=48363801&pid=11 Benjamin Fuqua first joined the Austin Colony in 1828, but moved to the DeWitt Colony in 1830 where he received a quarter league of land as a single man on the San Marcos River north of Gonzales just inside current Guadalupe County. The following letter from Richard Ellis in Alabama recommended the Fuquas to Stephen F. Austin: State of Alabama, Town of Tuscumbia 3rd Jany. 1828 D COLO I beg leave to introduce to your aquantence and notice Mr Silus, Ephram and Benjmn Fuqua and Mr Job Ingram and Kye Ingram, these Gentlemen have emigrated to your Coloney to become permanent settlers---The Mr Fuquas are Mechanics. two of them of the best kind; they are honest and respectable men and are determined to suport the Government to which they go, I have had much conversation with Mr Silus Fuqua, on the present and future prospects of your coloney; and tho he has never seen it, he has a most corect idea of its great advantages, you will find him an inteligent man and I have no doubt will be an acquisition to your Setlement, I have known these gentlemen twelve years, the Mr Ingrams I have not known personaly but from their universal good character and the Gentlemen they go with, I feel no hesitation to recomend them to your attention...........RICHARD ELLIS. Benjamin was a representative from the Austin Municipality and a signer of the Declaration of the People of Texas declaring the intention of Texans to fight for the restoration of the Constitution of 1824 and support of a separate state of Texas within the Republic of Mexico. He was a mechanic (artisan) and mercantile businessman and was said to have owned the structure in inner Gonzales town called Luna which has been suggested as possibly one of the Grog Shops alluded to in David Edwards History of Texas. It may simply have been Benjamin Fuqua's general business establishment. Luna was on property deeded to Benjamin's brother Silas Fuqua who was a neighbor of John King. Benjamin Fuqua married King's oldest daughter Nancy. Benjamin Fuqua's nephew, Galba Fuqua and nephew by marriage, William King (Nancy King Fuqua's brother), were members of the Gonzales Relief Force to the Alamo and both died there in Mar 1836.

  
  

• Sources

  [S645] Ancestry.com, Texas, U.S., Land Title Abstracts,1700-2008, (Ancestry.com Operations Inc). [S32] Yates Publishing, U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.), Source number: 272.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: PAB. Birth date: 1755Birth place: Marriage date: 1778Marriage place: