Wednesday, June 5, 2002
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Wednesday, June 5, 2002 |
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Fayette family's efforts celebrated at Green Manor Restaurant By CAROLYN
CARY
Historic Green Manor Restaurant and Gardens, Union City, unveiled its renovation of the carriage house on the grounds. It also produced a 110 year old buggy, that had belong to his grandfather, Dr. Lewis Martin Hobgood. It was made at the Griffin Buggy Works in 1892. Dr. Hobgood was born in 1852 in Tyrone. He married Lula Hansford Palmer on March 2, 1886. They lived with his mother, Jane Martin Hobgood in the community of Stop, which is now Tyrone. He taught school before marriage and also had served as post master for the community of Stop. After marrying and having two children, he decided to go to Atlanta to the Southern Medical College, which later merged with Emory University. He would board a train each Monday morning and return on Friday afternoons. He was graduated in 1893, at the age of 39. Often returning home in his buggy, pulled by a horse he named "Gyp" in the wee hours of the morning, he always checked to see if a wash pan was hanging on a horse collar. If one was there, it indicated that he needed to go see another patient and not to unhook the buggy. He would go inside to see who he was to visit next. Traveling in an open buggy in the winter could be challenging and he would heat rocks, wrap them in paper or cloths to keep his feet warm. He had heavy lap robes but often also pinned newspapers inside his coat for insulation. He died January 22, 1927 of diphtheria, apparently acquired while still practicing medicine and is buried in the Fairburn City Cemetery. His wife died in 1934. Their six girls and one boy all graduated from college. A. J. Green is the son of Johnnie Hansford Hobgood, who was the second born of the six girls, and Dr. Albert J. Green Sr. He has renovated the carriage house and invites one and all to see his grandfather's famous buggy. The carriage house sits at the rear of the Historic Green Manor Restaurant at 6400 Westbrook Street, Union City.
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