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Hogg was known as the "People's Governor," "Cham-
pion of the Common Man." President Harry S.
Truman observed about Hogg, "He was not only one of
the greatest governors of Texas but one of the best in
our country's history." "One of the greatest among the
many great men of Texas history," Lyndon B. Johnson
said of him.
James Stephen Hogg was fearless, an intellectual
and physical giant who was gentle in character, yet
who demanded justice for all. When he retired from the
governor's office he was financially insecure, but later
through wise investments and oil he became wealthy.
The wealth, for the most part, was given back to the
people of Texas via cultural centers, charities, en-
dowments and foundations which endeared the entire
Hogg family to all citizens of the State.
In Wood County, at Quitman, the James Stephen
Hogg Memorial Shrine Park has been established by
the State in his honor. A museum, in honor of Ima
Hogg, was built and dedicated on the grounds of the
park by the Wood County Historical Survey Com-
mittee and county citizens.Stephen Hogg Shrine State Park in Quitman.
Miss Ima Hogg died in London, England 19
August, 1975, where, as she said, she had gone to see
the plays and operas. Her death ended the career of
perhaps Texas' most outstanding woman. She was
buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Austin.
MARTIN ROBERT HUFF, born 7 November
1862, and his wife, Mary E. Basham Huff born 13
January 1864, were born in Edmonson County, Ken-
tucky and came to Mineola in 1894, where they bought
land east of town.
During the winter the Huff family worked in the
timber making crossties for the railroad, but in the
farming season they cultivated the land.
Martin R. and Mary E. Huff were the parents of 14
children. Five survive at this time (1975), as well as
many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Martin R. and Mary E. Huff were buried in the
New Hope Cemetery.Submitted by: E. A. Spacek
Source: Gladys Huff
IMA HOGG, only daughter of James Stephen and
Sallie Stinson Hogg, was born in Mineola 10 July, 1882.
In the fall of 1884, the Hogg family moved to Tyler
where James Hogg practiced law until elected Attorney
General.
Before the end of December 1886, Ima Hogg moved
with her family to Austin, where her father served as
attorney general and later as governor. As a child, Ima
spent many summer vacations at the Wood County
plantation of her grandfather, James A. Stinson. Miss
Ima's early love was music. After attending the Univer-
sity of Texas for two years, she went to New York and
then on to Europe to further her musical training.
Upon returning to her home in Houston, she helped to
found the Houston Symphony.
Miss Ima Hogg inherited her famous father's pas-
sion for reform as well as his aggressiveness. She and
her late brothers, Will, Mike and Tom Hogg, were
doubtless Texas' most generous philanthropists.
Because of her love for Texas and its heritage, Miss
Ima spent millions of dollars restoring old landmarks
throughout the state. This project included the restora-
tion of "Honeymoon Cottage" in Quitman. This small
cottage was the first home of her parents.
Miss Ima also restored "Stinson House," the
girlhood home of her mother. Both houses were moved
from their original sites and relocated in the JamesJOHN HENRY INGRAM was born in a log
schoolhouse near Rusk, Texas, 27 December 1860,
while his parents, John Spires and Julia A. Ingram
were enroute to Wood County. The Ingram family
settled on two sections of land which John Squires
Ingram purchased in the Forest Hills Community.
John Squires enlisted in the Confederate Army,
leaving slaves to care for his land and family until his
return. Wesley, one of the Negroes, remained with the
family after freedom came. Descendants of the Ingram
slaves lived in the Lake Quitman area on land that was
given to them by John Squires Ingram. He reportedly
gave forty acres and a mule to each family.
John Henry Ingram married (1) Catherine Price.
After her death he married her sister, Rosa Belle Price.
After the death of his second wife, John Henry married
Martha Gilbreath. Rosa Belle Price Ingram died at the
birth of her son, John Belle Ingram, who married
Matteel Hinson.
Some of the descendants of John Squires Ingram
have continued to live on the land he settled in 1860.
Hisgranddaughter, Ona, daughter of John Henry and
Martha Ingram, is living there at this time, (1974).
Source: Mrs. John Belle Ingram108
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