Col. James A. Stinson Home

The Handbook of Texas gives Sallie Stinson's story around the house. She was born August 9, 1854, in Troup County, Georgia, and met James Hogg in 1869 at a private school in Quitman, when she was 14 and he was 18. Ima Hogg later bought the Stinson House and moved it to the city park in 1969. Sallie died of tuberculosis on September 21, 1895, in Pueblo, Colorado, where she was staying with her sister-in-law for a rest cure, and was buried in the Hogg family plot at Oakwood Cemetery in Austin.

What the plaque says

Col. James A. Stinson Home Constructed in 1869 of virgin pine and oak by James A. Stinson, a widower who came to Texas in 1868 from Georgia after having served as a colonel in the Confederate Army. He brought with him his daughter Sallie. He bought extensive timber and farm lands in the eastern area of Wood County; operated a large sawmill which sent lumber throughout the state. Was also known as an early-day scientific farmer. Mrs. Nathan Jones, a widow with one daughter, Mary, became the second wife of Col. Stinson. The had two daughters, Lily and Cliffie, and one son, James F. In the parlor of the house, on April 22, 1874, Sallie Stinson married James Stephen Hogg, who later became the first native-born governor of the state. Col. Stinson was a southern aristocrat, a progressive thinker and a great scholar of government. He probably had great influence on James S. Hogg's ideas on good government. Was a leader in the county and state Grange, an organization which strove to protect rural interests. He was also instrumental in getting enacted into law the bill creating experimental farm, Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. Stinson's home was always open to young and old. (1968)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Governor Hogg Shrine — steps away
  Quitman's 27-acre city park, once a state historical park, where two houses tied to James Stephen Hogg's marriage stand beside an arboretum, a nature walk and the grounds of the Old Settlers Reunion.
• Tyler State Park — 24 mi
  A 985-acre park eight miles north of Tyler, built by the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1935 to 1941 around a 64-acre spring-fed lake, with more than 13 miles of trails.
• Lake Bob Sandlin State Park — 28 mi
  A 1987 state park on a 9,000-acre reservoir, where a Republic of Texas stockade called Fort Sherman stood in 1838 and the Caddo lived from A.D. 800 to 1860, now with fishing piers, trails and cabins.

More markers nearby

• J. H. Jones and the Old Settlers Reunion Grounds — steps away
• James Stephen Hogg — 0.4 mi
• Wood County — 1.8 mi
• First Election in Wood County — 7.4 mi