“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

GOERGE S. FUQUA, a prominent citizen of Dallas county, is a son of 
Joseph and Anne (Mosby) Fuqua.  The father, a lawyer by profession, was 
born and reared in Henrico county, Virginia, and afterward practiced his 
profession in Cumberland and Buckingham counties, same State.  He was a 
successful criminal and civil lawyer, enjoying a large practice; owned a 
large plantation on the James river, known as Bear Garden; was prominent 
in politics, being a life-long Democrat; held a number of responsible public 
positions, and accumulated a large fortune.  He was born December 9, 1800, 
and died at his plantation in Buckingham county, in 1870.  Our subject’s 
mother, nee Ann Mosby, was born in Buckingham county, Virginia, a 
daughter of Hezekiah and Mary Lipscomb.  She died in her native county in 
1860, at the age of fifty-eight years.  Mr. and Mrs. Fuqua’s children were: 
William, a physician of Cumberland county, Virginia; George S., our 
subject; Joseph, a teacher of Osyka, Mississippi; Samuel, a farmer of 
Buckingham county, Virginia; and three daughters.

George S. Fuqua, our subject, was born in Cumberland county, Virginia, in 
June, 1825, and was reared to farm life in that and Buckingham counties.  
He followed that occupation a short time in the latter county, and then, in 
1852, came to Texas, settling in San Augustine county, where he served as 
Deputy Clerk of the Circuit Court a number of years, under Ben F. Benton, a 
nephew of Thomas H. Benton.  In 1862 Mr. Fuqua enlisted in the 
Confederate army, in Company A, Nineteenth Texas Infantry, Walker’s 
Division, and served in the Trans-Mississippi Department.  After the close of 
the war he returned to San Augustine and remained about four years; then he 
moved to Jefferson, Texas, and engaged in buying cotton until the fall of 
1878, when he came to Dallas, and carried on the same business.  

Mr. Fuqua was married at Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, in February, 
1849, to Anna E. Jones, who was born in that county, and a daughter of Dr. 
Davis C. Jones, also a native of that county.  Mr. and Mrs. Fuqua have a 
pleasant home in West Dallas, where they have reared a family of four 
children, viz.: George C., a farmer of this county; Davana, the wife of J. A. 
Bishop, of Dallas county; Joseph, who is engaged in the lumber business of 
Texarkana, Arkansas; and Willie, the wife of F. M. Clower, who resides in 
West Dallas.

Submitted by: Justina Cook