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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