GRAVE OF RICHARD BOOKER FATHER OF HARRIETT BOOKER FUQUA IN SHEBYCO.KY. BURIED ON THE OLD HOMEPLACE WILLOW BROOK
TABBITHA BOOKER WIFE OF RICHARD THE MOTHER OF HARRIETT BOOKER FUQUA
This is the home of Richard Marot Booker father of Harriett Booker who married Moses Fuqua. Moses and Harriett had 6 children the 5th was Elias D. Fuqua 14 Jun 1831 - 16 Feb 1862 in Putnam C. MO. he married Sarah L. Spangler on 11 Jun 1854 in Schuyler Co. IL. Elias and Sarah had only 2 children. Richard Henry Fuqua18 Apr 1855 - 5 Feb 1917. He married Martha Anne Trantham 2 Jan 1876 ( connected with the rest of the Trantham's) Richard Henry's sister Mary EllaFuquaborn 25 Jul 1858 in Adams Co. IL. married on 29 Jul 1876 Coffey Co. KS. to John Newton Rickman she died 29 Jul 1929 in Orange Co. Anaheim CA.
WILLOW BROOK FARM SHELBY CO. KENTUCKY
Gravestone of Harriett Booker Fuqua
Pictures provided by June Butler Daughter of Clarence Rickman
Information received from June Butler on 20 May 2003 on Fuqua Family
They seemed to be very prolific people and most had sons. All seem to stem from the same Guillaume (William) Fuqua who was our emigrant, he was born in France about 1667 he had 5 sons and1 daughter, and most of his sons had lots of sons, only one that had mostly daughters was a Moses (1778) son of Moses (1738) and brother of our William ( 1764) after they were in Greenup Co. KY. I am sure that anyone named Fuqua is related, somehow. We actually have two Fuqua lines as 2nd cousins married. Samuel (1740) brother of Moses (1738) had a daughter who married a Booker and their daughter Harriet married our Moses (1792)
Received information on this picture via e-mail Thanks to Jan Babb McClintock & Homer C. Stanford
there are now names to put with this picture
The Robert Henry Fuqua family
Robert Henry was
the father of Idella Mae Fuqua
Luther & Idella Mae Fuqua Kirk
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She Was Idella Mae Fuqua, born 1880 around Ellis County TX and married to Luther Kirk They lived in Oklahoma in 1910.
E-mail from Jan Babb McClintock on 2/24/2004 Identity of Grave Sites
Checked my database for those tombstones you were interested in. I think those families came from TN (Robertson Co) to Palo Pinto Co. TX and then on to Tarrant Co.
My grandmother was Maggie Fuqua from Pontotoc Co MS. She descends through Ralph, John, John, Armstead.....this group went from Bedford Co VA to Franklin Co. AL to Pontotoc Co MS to Lamar Co TX.
Fuqua Family History from Homer C. Stanford
I am a Fuqua via my mother. Ralph, John, John S, Gilliam Minor,
William Monroe Fuqua, born 26 Feb 1914 in Texas and died 18 September 1974.
He is the son of Joseph Franklin Fuqua and Nora Bell Lamb. Joseph Franklin was born in Hamilton Co. TX in 1876 and died there 20 Dec 1959. His wife, Nora Bell Lamb, born 18 Oct 1890 and died in Erath Texas 21 Sept 1978. Joseph Franklin's ancestors came from Gibson County, TN to Washington Co. TX about 1840. That line continues back through Joseph Fuqua and Anna Sampson and on to Guillaume
Wiley descends through William Minor Fuqua, who was a step brother of my Armstead Fuqua.
They are sons of John Fuqua of Bedford County, VA.
This article came from The Handbook of Texas
FUQUA, WILEY HOLDER (1862-1950). Wiley Holder Fuqua, banker and businessman, the son of William M. and Elizabeth (Milam) Fuqua, was born on September 13, 1862, in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. His father, a Baptist minister, was also a prosperous cotton planter who had owned 100 slaves before the Civil War and afterward rebuilt his productivity to 800 to 1,000 bales of cotton a year. All of that was eventually lost through security debts, and in 1877 the family moved to a farm about five miles south of Ennis, Ellis County, Texas. Financial reverses had kept Wiley from completing his education at Cedar Hill Institute in Mississippi. He saved part of his farm earnings with an eye to further education; eventually he attended East Texas University in Tyler and the old Waco University, specializing in commercial studies and doing various odd jobs to pay for his room and board. After graduation in 1882 Fuqua returned home and resumed working in the cotton fields. He began conducting classes for the neighborhood youth and eventually established his own country school. He taught in Ennis for eight years and traded horses and cattle on the side. On Christmas Eve 1885 he married Mary Ella Chestnutt, a former student. By 1888 he had netted a fortune of $20,000.
During school vacation in the summer of 1889 the Fuquas planned a round trip by train to Clayton, New Mexico. At Amarillo, however, they got off and stayed. Soon after his arrival, Fuqua purchased a livery stable and operated horse-drawn streetcars. Subsequently he opened a stage line from Amarillo to Plainview and Crosbyton, where it connected with a line to Colorado City. He also established a retail coal business and subsequently came to own all of the town's coalyards. He was a member of the delegation that helped get the Pecos Valley and Northwestern line routed to Amarillo in the 1890s.
When the First National Bank of Amarillo opened in January 1890, Fuqua was among its stockholders. In 1891 he was made a director of the bank and by 1894 was its president. In 1896 he bought all the stock and became its sole owner. In the morning before opening time, Fuqua was usually seen sweeping the bank's front porch. In time he acquired stock in forty-three other Panhandle banks, including controlling stock in seven. At one time he owned up to 560 sections of farm and ranch land in the Texas Panhandle, New Mexico, and Missouri, as well as various real estate properties in Amarillo and other townsites.
During World War I and the Panhandle oil boom of the 1920s, Fuqua helped others establish businesses through his generous loans. He soon won a reputation as an authority on the economic conditions of the Southwest. When the Great Depression hit, he remained loyal to his friends and often took cash in his car to the banks in which he had an interest, in order to keep them solvent. In 1932 he formed the West Texas Mortgage Loan Company with assets of $3 million, using his money and property as holdings and security. He retired from the presidency of the First National Bank in 1934. In 1940 the Reconstruction Finance Corporation filed suit, compelling Fuqua to sell most of his properties in settlement. Nevertheless, he managed to rebuild a portion of his wealth by the late 1940s.
Fuqua was president of the Texas Bankers' Association in 1910-11 and president of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce in 1912. He was a Baptist, a Mason, and the father of four children, all of whom he outlived. He died on May 30, 1950, and was buried in Llano Cemetery, Amarillo.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Amarillo Daily News, July 8, 1940. Amarillo Sunday News-Globe, Golden Anniversary Edition, August 14, 1938. Lewis E. Daniell, Texas-The Country and Its Men (Austin?, 1924?)
History below from Jan Babb McClintock
Moses Fuqua and Harriet Booker Williams Fuqua five children.
1) Richard Booker Fuqua (1825-1880);
2) William Fuqua (1827-1903)
3) Sarah Fuqua Mountain ( 1829-?)
4) Elias D.Fuqua (1831-1852)
5) Morton Moses Fuqua (1833-?)
Harriet had a child by her first marriage to William Williams
