Actually the spelling of the last name for the French Immigrant William should be Fouquet. Not totally sure when the name changed spellings, but it did so several times before coming Fuqua. Just thought I would throw that in there. Vicki Jan Roggy <jlroggy@essex1.com> on 01/21/2003 06:12:15 PM Please respond to FUQUA-L@rootsweb.com To: FUQUA-L@rootsweb.com cc: bcc: Subject: Re: [FUQUA] Fuqua dies at the Alamo |------------------| |----------------------| | [ ] Confidential | | [ ] For My Eyes Only | |------------------| |----------------------| His name was Galba, born 03/19/1819 in Alabama. He died 1836 in the Battle of the Alamo. He was the youngest person who fought at the Alamo. This is what I have: Jan 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. ref: http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/gonzalesrangersf-k.htm hugheshavlik@aol.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: fuqua > Classification: Death > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/wYX.2ACEB/808 > > Message Board Post: > > Can anyone with me the scoop on this. I had it once and can't seem to find it, what with all my papers. > was his name gilba? Please email me directly, I will appreciate this greatly, this is for my grandson. Thanks, Nan email Hugheshavlik@aol.com > > ==== FUQUA Mailing List ==== > You are invited to visit the new Fuqua website at: > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~fuqua > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 ==== FUQUA Mailing List ==== You are invited to visit the new Fuqua website at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~fuqua ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 The content of this email message and any attachments are confidential and may be legally privileged, intended solely for the addressee. If you are not the intended recipient, be advised that any use, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender immediately by reply email and destroy the message and its attachments.