C. E. FUQUA.
The subject of this sketch, one of the farming residents of Washington
county, was born in Bedford county, Virginia, on July 25, 1835.
He married, at Big Spring, Virginia, June 22, 1858, Lucy Gordon, who
was born near Salem, Roanoke county, Virginia, December 27, 1835.
The record of their children is: Mary F., married Charles B. Stone, of
Abingdon, on January 18, 1881, and died December 4, 1883, Frank
M., died November 11, 1861, aged ten months, Eolia S. and Gordon C.,
living at home.
The father of Mr. Fuqua was Hezekiah Fuqua, of Bedford county,
son of Joseph Fuqua, who was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and
in battles of Brandywine and Cowpens. His mother was Sarah, daughter
of Simon Noel, formerly of Bedford county. A number of the Noel
family served in the war of 1812. The Fuquas were Huguenots, emigrating
from France under religious persecution, settling first in South
Carolina. Mrs. C. E. Fuqua is a daughter of John Gordon, of Roanoke
county, whose father was Isaac Gordon, of Manchester, Virginia. The
Gordons of Virginia trace their ancestral line to a Gordon of Scotland,
made a Peer by King Malcolm for bravery, serving after as a trusted
guard of honor, near the person of the King. One branch of the Gordon
family emigrating from Scotland in colonial days, settled in Manchester,
another branch founded Gordonsville, Virginia. The mother of
Mrs. Fuqua was Eleanor, daughter of John Zircle, of Roanoke county,
the family coming from the Shenandoah valley.
C. E. Fuqua was six months in service in light artillery, C. S. A., in
1862, then discharged for disability, after that served as railroad supervisor.
His brother C. T. Fuqua was killed in battle of Seven Pines,
another brother was killed in the seven days fighting around Richmond,
still another was captured in 1865, and sent North as prisoner of war.
