The Alamo Defenders: Galba Fuqua

FUQUA, GALBA

(1819-1836)

Born in Alabama, Galba Fuqua, was the son of Silas and Sally (Taney) Fuqua.  Although he was of French Huguenot descent, it was speculated that he was also thought to be of Mexican or Jewish descent.

As a resident of Gonzales, Texas, in February, 1836, he was enrolled by Byrd Lockhart in the Gonzales Ranging Company of Mounted Volunteers. He rode to the relief of the Alamo garrison with this group and arrived on March 1, 1836.  He died with the other Alamo defenders on March 6, 1836, three days short of his seventeenth birthday.

Susanna W. Dickinson, wife of Almaron Dickinson who also died in the battle of the Alamo later claimed that Fuqua came to her and tried to tell her something. However, he was unable to deliver his message because his jaw had been broken in the fighting.

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