ED & ANNABEL HOGAN

Obituary written by Martin Hall

Edgar (Ed) Hogan was born May 19, 1881, in Pine Bluff, Johnson County, Arkansas, to Christopher Hogan and Eliza French Hogan. His grandparents were Susanna Belcher Hogan and William Hogan, founder of the town of Hogansville, Troup County, Georgia. In his early twenties, Ed left Pine Bluff for Hobart, Oklahoma, where he took work as a machinist and mechanic at a local motor company. In the early 1920s, Ed moved himself, his second wife, Dora Gossett, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, whom he married June 10, 1919, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and his daughter, Edna Louise Hogan, from Oklahoma City to Santa Ana, California, in a car he assembled from spare parts. His death was the result of complications arising from a scafffolding-fall job-site accident working on a two-story commercial building in downtown Santa Ana. He died September 3, 1922, at age 41, and he is interred in Memorial No. 44736491, Section 3, at Rose Hill Burial Park, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 

The Samuel N. Martin and Rebecca C. Lawson Martin family had come from Tennessee in 1858 to farm property outside Russellville, in Pope County, Arkansas. Their son, William Allen Martin, married Rebecca "Kate" Ann Harkey Martin, and together they reared ten children. The fifth child, Annabel Martin, was born on October 1, 1878. Ed Hogan married Annabel on April 27, 1907, in Pine Bluff. Annabel gave birth to Edna Louise Hogan (she went by Louise) on August 14, 1913. Annabel died at home February 9, 1915, at age 36, only four weeks after giving birth to a son, Joseph Martin Hogan, on January 11, 1915. She is interred at Bellwood Cemetery in Pine Bluff. Joseph then tragically died from milk poisoning shortly thereafter on August 18, 1915. Joseph is believed to be interred next to his mother at Bellwood Cemetery. All of these births and deaths occurred in Pine Bluff.

Edna Louise Hogan lost her mother at age eighteen months, her brother at age two, and then she lost her father at age nine. Dora Hogan died in Los Angeles, California, in the summer of 1968, and she is interred at Fairlawn Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

NOTE TO READERS: Due to their dying young and leaving nine-year-old Edna Louise Hogan as their only living child, there is considerable disconnection in known available information about Ed and Annabel's lives, research about which continues. Enhanced information will be added as it is developed. Thank you.