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Silas Fuqua

Male 1783 - 1830  (47 years)


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  1. 1.  Silas Fuqua was born on 17 Aug 1783 in , Bedford, Virginia, USA; died on 26 Oct 1830 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; was buried in Luling, Caldwell, Texas, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1815, , Madison, Alabama, USA
    • Residence: 1816, , Madison, Alabama, USA

    Notes:

    From: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/oldgonzales18.htm#fuqua
    Benjamin Fuqua first joined the Austin Colony in 1828, but moved to the DeWitt Colony in 1830where 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.

    Silas Fuqua was born to a prominent family of French Huguenots in Virginia. He and several of his brothers migrated to Alabama when it was still a territory. He first appears on tax lists there in 1810 and patented land in 1812 and 1819 in Madison County near Huntsville. He married Sally Young in 1814.
    Genealogists have listed Sally's name as Sally Taney based on information from a Fuqua family Bible. However, I believe this is a mistranscription of the name. There are no Taneys listed in either Bedford County, Virginia, where the Fuquas originated, nor in Madison County, Alabama where Silas is recorded as having married.There are however, numerous Toneys listed in both counties including the husband of her grandmother Celia Bondurant Fuqua's sister. Since the wedding certificate for Silas and Sally lists her name as Sally Young, she was either a 17 year old widow when she married Silas or her maiden name was Young and Toney was her middle name.

    Sally died in 1825, the same year that Silas and his brother Benjamin bought land in northwestern Alabama in what is now Colbert County. By 1828, he and Benjamin who was unmarried, and Silas's children journeyed north to join the Tennessee-Texas Land Company and then traveled in a group to Texas. They settled first in the Austin Colony but moved two years later to the DeWitt Colony where they both received large land grants. Unfortunately, Silas died shortly after and is believed buried in the Fuqua Family Cemetery though his gravestone and location have been lost.
    From: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/oldgonzales18.htm#fuqua

    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 Gentlementhey go with, I feel no hesitation to recomend them to your attention...........Richard Ellis."

    Silas and Sally had the following children, all born in Alabama, all died in Texas with the exception of Lucas who went back to Alabama. Silas had a large personal library and he named his sons Galba and Fabius after Roman generals.

    Elizabeth Fuqua Delaney (1815-1842)
    Harriet (1817-1824)
    Galba (1819-1836) DIED AT THE ALAMO Memorial #'s 8859412 and 50734415
    Caroline (1821-)
    Lucas (1822-1848)
    Fabius (1824-1897) Memorial # 17974566
    Sabrina "Satira" Ringer (1825-)

    Silas married Sally Toney Young on 25 May 1814 in , Madison, Alabama, USA. Sally was born on 18 Sep 1797 in , , Virginia, USA; died on 25 Aug 1825 in , Madison, Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Elizabeth Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 21 Sep 1815 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died in 1842 in , , Texas, USA.
    2. 3. Harriet Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 21 Feb 1817 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died in 1834 in , , Texas, USA.
    3. 4. Galba Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 9 Mar 1819 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died on 6 Mar 1836 in Alamo, Hidalgo, Texas, USA; was buried in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA.
    4. 5. Caroline Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 13 Jan 1821 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died in 1824 in , Madison, Alabama, USA.
    5. 6. Lucas Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Aug 1822 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died in 1848 in , Colbert, Alabama, USA.
    6. 7. Fabius Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Aug 1824 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died on 1 Jan 1897 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; was buried in Luling, Caldwell, Texas, USA.
    7. 8. Sabrina Satira Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 25 Aug 1825 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died on 19 Jun 1867 in , Gonzales, Texas, USA.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Elizabeth Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (1.Silas1) was born on 21 Sep 1815 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died in 1842 in , , Texas, USA.

  2. 3.  Harriet Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (1.Silas1) was born on 21 Feb 1817 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died in 1834 in , , Texas, USA.

  3. 4.  Galba Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (1.Silas1) was born on 9 Mar 1819 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died on 6 Mar 1836 in Alamo, Hidalgo, Texas, USA; was buried in San Antonio, Bexar, Texas, USA.

    Notes:

    Galba Fuqua, Alamo defender, son of Silas and Sally (Taney) Fuqua, was born in Alabama on March 9, 1819. He was of French Huguenot descent. In the past he was also thought to be of Mexican or Jewish descent. As a resident of Gonzales, Texas, he was enrolled by Byrd Lockhart in the Gonzales Ranging Company of Mounted Volunteers on February 23, 1836. He rode to the relief of the Alamo garrison with this group and arrived on March 1, 1836. Susanna W. Dickinson later claimed that during the battle of the Alamo Fuqua came to her and tried to tell her something. He was unable to deliver his message because his jaw had been broken in the fighting. He died with the other Alamo defenders on March 6, 1836, three days short of his seventeenth birthday.


    From: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/gonzalesrangersf-k.htm
    Galba Fuqua, 16, was born in Alabama, a Gonzales resident and Private rifleman in the Gonzales Rangers. The Fuqua family are said to have originated with French immigrant William Fuqua (Farqua) (married Jane) to the American colony of Virginia as early as 1685. According to descendant Gerald Duvall, William Farqua came to America fleeing Catholic persecution, had a son Ralph Fuqua who had a son Joseph, the father of Silas, Benjamin and Ephraim Fuqua. Both Ralph and Joseph served in the American Revolution against the British. Galba Fuqua was the son of Silas and Sally Taney Fuqua. After wife Sally’s death between 1825 and 1828, Silas went to Texas with his children where he died in 1834. A letter to Stephen F. Austin from Silas Fuqua of 28 Mar 1828 expressed satisfaction with Texas and inquired about assistance and information. Silas Fuqua’s land grant was on the east bank of the San Marcos River in current CaldwellCo on the GonzalesCo line. According to his land certificate, Silas Fuqua arrived in the DeWitt Colony with a family of 6 on 11 May 1830. Galba Fuqua’s single uncle Benjamin Fuqua also came to the DeWitt Colony in 1830 where he received a quarter sitio of land on the west bank of the San Marcos just north of the Silas Fuqua league. Ben Fuqua was purported to be a mechanic and mercantile business man who owned a structure called "Luna" in inner Gonzales town on his brother Silas Fuqua's town lots. It may have been a blacksmith or mercantile business although some have speculated that it might have been a Grog Shop alluded to by author Edwards in his 1836 Texas which he critically termed "the center of attraction for both young and old of the Texians". Benjamin Fuqua married Nancy King (they had a daughter Mary), older sister of William King, also a member of the Gonzales Relief force. Family legends say that both Galba and Benjamin Fuqua were treated like sons by John and Parmelia King after the death of Silas Fuqua and the marriage of Benjamin to Nancy King. Legend says that teenage Relief Force members John Gaston, Galba Fuqua and William King were all good friends as well as the three families. Susannah Dickerson, a survivor of the Alamo related that during the battle Galba Fuqua burst into the Alamo chapel where she was hiding and he tried to tell her something.Because both jaws were broken, she could not understand him before he rushed back to the battle.

    Silus, Ephram, Benjmn Fuqua and Galba Fuqua
    Added by mkfell1 on 4 Jan 2009

    From: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/oldgonzales18.htm#fuqua
    Benjamin Fuqua first joined the Austin Colony in 1828, but moved to the DeWitt Colony in 1830where 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.

    Galba Fuqua was last seen alive when he rushed into the Alamo chapel to give a message to Mrs. Dickerson who was hiding there. Like the other defenders, his body was burned on the orders of Mexican general Santa Ana and the ashes scattered so that there were no remains for the families to identify and bury.

    FUQUA, GALBA (1819–1836). Galba Fuqua, Alamo defender, son of Silas and Sally (Taney) Fuqua, was born in Alabama on March 9, 1819. He was of French Huguenot descent. In the past he was also thought to be of Mexican or Jewish descent. As a resident of Gonzales, Texas, he was enrolled by Byrd Lockhart in the Gonzales Ranging Company of Mounted Volunteers on February 23, 1836. He rode to the relief of the Alamo garrison with this group and arrived on March 1, 1836. Susanna W. Dickinson later claimed that during the battle of the Alamo Fuqua came to her and tried to tell her something. He was unable to deliver his message because his jaw had been broken in the fighting. He died with the other Alamo defenders on March 6, 1836, three days short of his seventeenth birthday.
    BIBLIOGRAPHY: Daughters of the American Revolution, The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary Ancestors (San Antonio, 1976). Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Muster Rolls of the Texas Revolution (Austin, 1986). Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders (Austin: Eakin, 1990). Andrew Jackson Sowell, Rangers and Pioneers of Texas (San Antonio: Shepard, 1884; rpt., New York: Argosy-Antiquarian, 1964).


  4. 5.  Caroline Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (1.Silas1) was born on 13 Jan 1821 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died in 1824 in , Madison, Alabama, USA.

  5. 6.  Lucas Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (1.Silas1) was born on 25 Aug 1822 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died in 1848 in , Colbert, Alabama, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Departure: Matagorda, Matagorda, Texas, USA
    • Name: Lucas Fuqua
    • Arrival: 28 Jul 1837, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
    • Residence: 1846, , Gonzales, Texas, USA


  6. 7.  Fabius Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (1.Silas1) was born on 25 Aug 1824 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died on 1 Jan 1897 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; was buried in Luling, Caldwell, Texas, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1870, Lockhart, Caldwell, Texas, USA
    • Residence: 1880, , Caldwell, Texas, USA; Marital status: MarriedRelation to Head of House: Self

    Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 9. Bertha Williams  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 19 Oct 1882 in , , Texas, USA; died on 3 Mar 1976 in , Hartley, Texas, USA; was buried in Dalhart, Dallam, Texas, USA.

    Fabius married Demetres Angeline/ Demaris "Adaline"/ "Elizabeth" Halliburton on 16 Nov 1867 in , Gonzales, Texas, USA. Demetres was born on 14 Jul 1841 in , , North Carolina, USA; died on 7 Jan 1884 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; was buried in Luling, Caldwell, Texas, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 10. Laura M Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 23 Aug 1868 in Luling, Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 13 May 1913 in Luling, Caldwell, Texas, USA.
    2. 11. William Silas Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 4 Sep 1869 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 15 Sep 1873 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA.
    3. 12. John Pleasant Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 21 Jan 1871 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 19 Apr 1953 in Abilene, Taylor, Texas, USA; was buried in Merkel, Taylor, Texas, USA.
    4. 13. Lillie Pleasant Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 18 Aug 1873 in Luling, Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 29 Mar 1900 in , Guadalupe, Texas, USA; was buried in Kingsbury, Guadalupe, Texas, USA.
    5. 14. Silas Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1875 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; died in 1880.
    6. 15. Charles Ruffin Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 13 Apr 1875 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 2 Jan 1958 in , Bexar, Texas, USA.
    7. 16. Addie Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 9 Apr 1877 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 3 Jun 1935 in Raton, Colfax, New Mexico, USA.
    8. 17. Harriet "Hallie" Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 1 Apr 1879 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 15 Feb 1906 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA.
    9. 18. Bertha Fuqua  Descendancy chart to this point was born on 19 Oct 1882 in , , Texas, USA; died on 3 Mar 1976 in Dalhart, Dallam, Texas, USA.

  7. 8.  Sabrina Satira Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (1.Silas1) was born on 25 Aug 1825 in , Madison, Alabama, USA; died on 19 Jun 1867 in , Gonzales, Texas, USA.


Generation: 3

  1. 9.  Bertha Williams Descendancy chart to this point (7.Fabius2, 1.Silas1) was born on 19 Oct 1882 in , , Texas, USA; died on 3 Mar 1976 in , Hartley, Texas, USA; was buried in Dalhart, Dallam, Texas, USA.

  2. 10.  Laura M Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (7.Fabius2, 1.Silas1) was born on 23 Aug 1868 in Luling, Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 13 May 1913 in Luling, Caldwell, Texas, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1880, , Caldwell, Texas, USA; Marital status: SingleRelation to Head of House: Daughter


  3. 11.  William Silas Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (7.Fabius2, 1.Silas1) was born on 4 Sep 1869 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 15 Sep 1873 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA.

  4. 12.  John Pleasant Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (7.Fabius2, 1.Silas1) was born on 21 Jan 1871 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 19 Apr 1953 in Abilene, Taylor, Texas, USA; was buried in Merkel, Taylor, Texas, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1880, , Caldwell, Texas, USA; Marital status: SingleRelation to Head of House: Son


  5. 13.  Lillie Pleasant Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (7.Fabius2, 1.Silas1) was born on 18 Aug 1873 in Luling, Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 29 Mar 1900 in , Guadalupe, Texas, USA; was buried in Kingsbury, Guadalupe, Texas, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Name: Lillie Pleasant Baker
    • Residence: 1880, , Caldwell, Texas, USA; Marital status: SingleRelation to Head of House: Daughter


  6. 14.  Silas Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (7.Fabius2, 1.Silas1) was born in 1875 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; died in 1880.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1880, , Caldwell, Texas, USA; Marital status: SingleRelation to Head of House: Son


  7. 15.  Charles Ruffin Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (7.Fabius2, 1.Silas1) was born on 13 Apr 1875 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 2 Jan 1958 in , Bexar, Texas, USA.

  8. 16.  Addie Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (7.Fabius2, 1.Silas1) was born on 9 Apr 1877 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 3 Jun 1935 in Raton, Colfax, New Mexico, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1880, , Caldwell, Texas, USA; Marital status: SingleRelation to Head of House: Daughter


  9. 17.  Harriet "Hallie" Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (7.Fabius2, 1.Silas1) was born on 1 Apr 1879 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA; died on 15 Feb 1906 in , Caldwell, Texas, USA.

    Other Events and Attributes:

    • Residence: 1880, , Caldwell, Texas, USA; Marital status: SingleRelation to Head of House: Daughter


  10. 18.  Bertha Fuqua Descendancy chart to this point (7.Fabius2, 1.Silas1) was born on 19 Oct 1882 in , , Texas, USA; died on 3 Mar 1976 in Dalhart, Dallam, Texas, USA.


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