Gov. James Stephen Hogg and Wood County

The Handbook of Texas says Hogg was shot in the back during his Wood County years. While he was helping the sheriff at Quitman, outlaws who resented him lured him over the county line and ambushed him. He recovered and went back to newspaper work in Tyler. His only defeat at the polls came in 1876, when he ran against John S. Griffith for a seat in the Texas legislature. Texas Time Travel says the Honeymoon Cottage, the early home of Jim and Sallie Hogg, stands in Quitman's Governor Jim Hogg City Park with its original furnishings.

What the plaque says

Gov. James Stephen Hogg and Wood County James Stephen Hogg lived in Wood County from 1868 to 1882, formative years of his political career. When he became Governor, he appointed several Wood County friends to public offices. They included: Sarah Rosalie Patten Buchanan, who became a professor at Sam Houston State Normal College; William Jesse McDonald, a city deputy appointed Ranger captain; Cadwell Walton Raines, a newspaperman and county judge who became State Librarian; and former City Marshal George Reeves, who became a Penitentiary agent. Friendships Gov. Hogg made in his Wood County years had an important impact on the county and on the State of Texas. (2006)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Governor Hogg Shrine — 9.0 mi
  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 — 17 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.
• Camp Ford Historic Park — 23 mi
  A free county park north of Tyler on the site of the largest Confederate prison camp west of the Mississippi, with a kiosk, an interpretive trail and a historical society museum downtown.
• Goodman-LeGrand House and Museum — 24 mi
  A Tyler house begun in 1859 as four rooms, enlarged by the Goodman family over 73 years, and left to the city in 1939 with its furnishings, in a garden that fills a city block.

More markers nearby

• O. P. Pyle — steps away
• Mineola Opera Houses — steps away
• Birthplace of Miss Ima Hogg — steps away
• Jack Rhodes — steps away