Freed-Hardeman Connections
Researching the Restoration Movement in Mississippi and West Tennessee
Mother of E. C. Fuqua
06/29/2008 Filed in: Recent Finds
Mary A. Fuqua, mother of E. C. Fuqua. Al Price visted
the grave at Long Branch Cemetery in Yalobusha
County, Miss in the early 1970s. Al has some photos
of the old homeplace.
Mary A. Fuqua, mother of E. C. Fuqua
Birth: March 3, 1838; Death: November 26, 1900
Inscription: Wife of Nathan Fuqua & mother of Edward C. Fuqua
Picture above is Al Price who visted the grave at Long Branch Cemetery in Yalobusha County, Mississippi in the 1970s. Al has some photos of the old homeplace.
E. C. Fuqua debated Thomas B. Warren in the 1950s.
E. C. Fuqua is buried in Escondido, Calif. Alan Highers visited him when he lived in Fort Worth around 1955. He published The Vindicator for about 30 years and sold it to Dillard Thurman. G. C.Brewer tells about visiting Fuqua when Fuqua lived around Florence, AL. He even had a paper there called Fervent Appeal. Brewer described him as "strong as a lion."
Another story is that when brother Fuqua held a meeting at Burgess, MS. One night he went to the services and a mound of dirt was piled up at the front
door in the form of a grave and a sign there read, "Here in this grave E. C. Fuqua lies, and in this meeting only told lies." Or something similar.
Fuqua preached around Water Valley, MS once, holding meetings in various communities and stayed there for a while living in a cabin used for cotton.
His mother visited him while he was down there and died. Below are some pictures taken on the spot where the cabin stood. Since they lived in
poverty, she was buried there in the Long Branch cemetery. It was later that some of the brethren erected a small marker. Fuqua's father is buried near Lebanon, TN.
Photo and information are from Al Price, Henderson, TN.
Cemetery entrance photo by Donald G. Dalrymple, www.findagrave.com
Birth: March 3, 1838; Death: November 26, 1900
Inscription: Wife of Nathan Fuqua & mother of Edward C. Fuqua
Picture above is Al Price who visted the grave at Long Branch Cemetery in Yalobusha County, Mississippi in the 1970s. Al has some photos of the old homeplace.
E. C. Fuqua debated Thomas B. Warren in the 1950s.
E. C. Fuqua is buried in Escondido, Calif. Alan Highers visited him when he lived in Fort Worth around 1955. He published The Vindicator for about 30 years and sold it to Dillard Thurman. G. C.Brewer tells about visiting Fuqua when Fuqua lived around Florence, AL. He even had a paper there called Fervent Appeal. Brewer described him as "strong as a lion."
Another story is that when brother Fuqua held a meeting at Burgess, MS. One night he went to the services and a mound of dirt was piled up at the front
door in the form of a grave and a sign there read, "Here in this grave E. C. Fuqua lies, and in this meeting only told lies." Or something similar.
Fuqua preached around Water Valley, MS once, holding meetings in various communities and stayed there for a while living in a cabin used for cotton.
His mother visited him while he was down there and died. Below are some pictures taken on the spot where the cabin stood. Since they lived in
poverty, she was buried there in the Long Branch cemetery. It was later that some of the brethren erected a small marker. Fuqua's father is buried near Lebanon, TN.
Photo and information are from Al Price, Henderson, TN.
Cemetery entrance photo by Donald G. Dalrymple, www.findagrave.com