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Robert Lee & Nellie Quinn Hogg

 

Robert & Nellie are both buried at the Fort Perry Baptist Church Cemetary near Fortson, Marion County, Georgia.. The church was founded by the Stubbs/Hogg families of the 8th generation; they own adjacent property and donated the land and materials and actually built the church, themselves. Death Notes: Fort Perry Baptist Church Cemetary near Fortson, Marion County, Georgia.. The church was founded by the Stubbs/Hogg families of the 8th generation; they own adjacent property and donated the land and materials and actually built the church, themselves.


Notes for Nellie Mae QUINN: After Myra Nell died, Nellie Mae was never the same. She was very aloof and depressed, had a flat affect, and took massive amount of nerve pills, for the rest of her life. During the last few years of her life, she was given electroshock therapy for severe depression, which helped her tremendously. She was diagnosed as schizophrenic, according to both Wynnton and his brother, Curtis Neil "Neil" Hogg, however, schizophrenia is a common, "catch all" diagnosis when psychiatrists don't know what to label a person, and Nellie Mae had no delusions that were ever noticed or heard about.  I don't think she ever verbalized to my father that she blamed him for Myra Nell's death, and I don't really know that she did blame him. All I know is that she was always distant with him, maybe with everyone, due to severe depression, and Wynnton was never very close with his parents or his brother Neil, but we always enjoyed visiting with them on the rare occasions we saw them after we moved from Phenix City, Alabama to Dothan, Alabama in 1955.

 

 Wynnton Hogg's account of Myra Nell's death: Wynnton was four years old, and Myra Nell was three years old at the time, late May or early June, 1930: There was a basket sitting on top of a tall chest of drawers that contained candy. Myra Nell asked Wynnton to get the basket down for her, as she wanted some candy, so he climbed up on a chair and got it down for her. Unfortunately, there was also a box of matches in the basket, and Myra Nell caught her dress on fire. Wynnton, didn't know what to do, so he ran to get their mother, Nellie Mae, who frantically pulled the dress off, over Myra Nell's head. Myra Nell lingered for several days before she died. Robert and Nellie Mae didn't have enough money to pay for medical help, so they placed Myra Nell on an ironing board so the air could circulate around her small, burned body. 

 

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