Freed-Hardeman Connections
Researching the Restoration Movement in Mississippi and West Tennessee
Jun 2008
GRCC at Mammoth Cave
06/30/2008 Filed in: Recent Finds
Georgia Robertson Christian College Monument
at Mammoth Cave
It is believed that R. P. and Mollie Larimore Meeks visited Mammoth Cave in 1899 and left a monument. The hand-painted sign atop a stone monument in Mammoth Cave's Gothic Avenue. Photo is courtesy of Jackie Wheet, National Park Service. A full story was written by Laquita Thomson and reported in Past, Present, & Future, Erin Adams, Freed-Hardeman University Archivist.
It is believed that R. P. and Mollie Larimore Meeks visited Mammoth Cave in 1899 and left a monument. The hand-painted sign atop a stone monument in Mammoth Cave's Gothic Avenue. Photo is courtesy of Jackie Wheet, National Park Service. A full story was written by Laquita Thomson and reported in Past, Present, & Future, Erin Adams, Freed-Hardeman University Archivist.
Mother of E. C. Fuqua
06/29/2008 Filed in: Recent Finds
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
Architect with Freed-Hardeman Connections
06/01/2008 Filed in: Recent Finds
HUBERT THOMAS McGEE (1864-1946)
Hubert Thomas McGee was born in Henderson, Tennessee on June 7, 1864. His father was Dr. Thomas H. McGee, a physician who practiced at Henderson, Tennessee for many years.
McGee was educated in Henderson and became an architect. He drew the plans for the following buildings: Young Men's Christian Association building in Jackson, Chester County Courthouse, Henderson High School, Georgia Robertson Christian College, and several Freed-Hardeman dormitories.
In Memphis, he drew the plans for various Clarence Saunders buildings, one of which is now known as the Pink Palace Museum. It is built of pink and gray Georgia marble.
McGee is buried in the Henderson City Cemetery, across the pavement from the grave of N. B. Hardeman.
Hubert Thomas McGee was born in Henderson, Tennessee on June 7, 1864. His father was Dr. Thomas H. McGee, a physician who practiced at Henderson, Tennessee for many years.
McGee was educated in Henderson and became an architect. He drew the plans for the following buildings: Young Men's Christian Association building in Jackson, Chester County Courthouse, Henderson High School, Georgia Robertson Christian College, and several Freed-Hardeman dormitories.
In Memphis, he drew the plans for various Clarence Saunders buildings, one of which is now known as the Pink Palace Museum. It is built of pink and gray Georgia marble.
McGee is buried in the Henderson City Cemetery, across the pavement from the grave of N. B. Hardeman.