Biography:
James Andrew Fuller was born on November 3, 1855, and passed away on March 5, 1935. He was the son of Samuel Mattison Fuller (1822-1895) and (Sarah Stonecypher) Fuller (1828-1865). He would marry Margaret McKinney on October 9, 1874. Margaret was the daughter of Charles Lafayette McKinney (1834-1863), who died due to injuries from the Civil War, and Lucinda Caroline Corn (1838-1932). The couple would have 11 children together.

James Andrew and Margaret bought land on Moccasin Creek, near Burton, where they built a house and lived for about ten years. They would then move to Dillard, Georgia, until James Andrew Fuller and his family left the North Georgia Mountains (Rabun County) on the day after Christmas moving south to Gwinnett County, Georgia. He had been down to Gwinnett County the fall before renting a farm and house, planting mainly garden vegetables and cotton as a cash crop. To notify his family that they would be moving, James sent a letter with a person on horseback (a rider) traveling North to Dillard. The farm was rented for one or two years before James Andrew and his son Andrew Barnett Fuller bought the Westbrook Farm on Westbrook Road.

The family left in four covered wagons, with three of the four belonging to neighbors who helped the family move without charge. The wagons carried all the household belongings and were what the women and children rode in during the day. They camped along the way with the family sleeping in the wagons while the boys slept near the campfire with guns to ward off wild animals. The boys were also useful on the trip as they herded the cattle behind the wagons. The trip took a week, and they arrived on New Year's Day, 1900. James Andrew, Margaret, and their eleven children are said to have never all been together in the same place due to the move leaving some of the older siblings behind in Dillard.

Margaret Fuller would die in 1908 at the age of 50, leaving four small children. Margaret had severe arthritis, one reason the family moved south to a warmer climate hoping this would ease her pain; unfortunately, it would not. Jimmy Ray Pugh remembers his mother, Alma Eunice Fuller Pugh, recalling the men cobbling together a wooden coffin that Margaret would be buried in at the time of her death. She was placed in the coffin, shrouded in a sheet. Over time the grave of Margaret would begin to sink and have to be filled in. When James Andrew died in 1935, his funeral was handled by Tapp Funeral Home in Buford, opened in 1922 by Glyndon P. Tapp. He was buried in a manufactured casket, and the problem of his grave sinking never occurred.

James Andrew would remarry when the two youngest, Eunice and Morris were old enough to work. James would sell the farm and move to Buford, where he had a house and some acreage. He built four or five tenant houses that he rented out. Eunice and Morris worked for the Bona Allen Plant, which produced leather goods like shoes, horse harnesses, and collars. Eunice Fuller Pugh would also have severe arthritis and die four months before her 50th birthday.

After Margaret Fuller's death, James Andrew married Ruth McCutchen (1867-1931), and after her death in 1931, he would marry Sally Higgins (1870-1971), who lived to be 101 years old. Both marriages were childless.

== Sources ==
*Oral history passed down by Julia Fuller Whitlock daughter of James and Margaret Fuller.
*Oral history passed down by Jimmy Ray Pugh.
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* Georgia Death Certificate
*Gwinnett Daily New's article interviewing Julia Lee Fuller Whitlock, "Gwinnett's Changed a Lot", Frances Medlock, 1975
*The McKinneys and Related Kin, by John M. Dillard, p. 12-20, The Dillard Annual, Vol. 3, Jan., 1996, The Dillard Family Association.
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Laura Fuller (3-16-1892 1- -1967 MI) married Exford Lee Jones (10-29-1890 11- -1966 MI) They lived in Detroit, Mi and had daughter, Ermine Butrelle Jones (12-31-1919 4-23-1988 MS). She married Elza Homer Firebaugh and Mr. Adams.