Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 569 of 1,110

                                
HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.

dren, viz.: Joseph E.,/Walter Lee, Dewitt
Clinton, Charles Marion, Addie, Martha
Lilly, Sallie Frank and Thomas Jefferson.
Mr. Millican is a Mason, having become a
member of the Grapevine Lodge in 1871-'72,
and is also a member of Estelle Lodge, No.
570, of this county.
7EORGE 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
successsul criminal and civil lawyer, enjoying
a large practice; owned a large plantation on
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
Anne M:osby,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 lulnber
business of Texarkana, Arkansas; and
Willie, the wife of F. M. Clower, who resides
in West Dallas.
7ALVIN TAYLOR, deceased. Nature,
no doubt, intended 3Mr. Taylor for a
long and more than ordinarily useful
life, but, alas, for human hopes and expectations,
he was cut down in the very zenith of
his manhood and at a time when his nature
was bright with promise. He was born in
Greene county, Illinois, December 2, 1831,
and came to Dallas county, Texas, in the latterpart
of the '50s, and was married on the
14th of August, 1856, to Harriet Emeline,
daughter of Thomas M. Ellis, a sketch of
whom  appears in this volume. They first
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