Carl B. Dobbins, 1901-1935 who is buried under that marker, came to Baytown in 1931 from Tennessee to work as a gauger for Humble Oil and Refining Company (now ExxonMobil), and married Ella Enderli in 1932. January of 1934 found the couple along with the wife's mother, Mrs. Herman Enderli, sitting in the Law Offices of C. D. Little, Baytown attorney to discuss arrangements for a divorce.
When efforts to effect a reconciliation failed, Dobbins threatened Little, and the attorney was forced to eject him from his office. Mrs. Dobbins and her mother left in their car, while Dobbins hailed a service car driven by M. L. Fisher with instructions to follow.
The two women drove to Goose Creek to the home of an aunt, Mrs. Hazelwood, who was babysitting the Dobbins baby. They had gotten to the front door when Dobbins arrived and rushed up and fired through the door fatally striking Mrs. Enderli and Mrs. Hazelwood. He shot his wife twice also; she survived.
After a year of trials, Dobbins was sentenced to die in the electric chair on Feb. 1. "They have found me guilty and I guess I'll have to pay," he said. "I'm ready to go."
Dobbins asked that he "be buried in the Wiggins Cemetery ... across Market Street from Robert E. Lee High School with a monument placed on the road where all [especially the students] could see with this inscription, 'The Wages of Sin Are Death!"
Then he added, "Look what sin did to me!"
Source: The Baytown (TX) Sun, 30 Oct 2023. Article by Melanie Ferguson
When efforts to effect a reconciliation failed, Dobbins threatened Little, and the attorney was forced to eject him from his office. Mrs. Dobbins and her mother left in their car, while Dobbins hailed a service car driven by M. L. Fisher with instructions to follow.
The two women drove to Goose Creek to the home of an aunt, Mrs. Hazelwood, who was babysitting the Dobbins baby. They had gotten to the front door when Dobbins arrived and rushed up and fired through the door fatally striking Mrs. Enderli and Mrs. Hazelwood. He shot his wife twice also; she survived.
After a year of trials, Dobbins was sentenced to die in the electric chair on Feb. 1. "They have found me guilty and I guess I'll have to pay," he said. "I'm ready to go."
Dobbins asked that he "be buried in the Wiggins Cemetery ... across Market Street from Robert E. Lee High School with a monument placed on the road where all [especially the students] could see with this inscription, 'The Wages of Sin Are Death!"
Then he added, "Look what sin did to me!"
Source: The Baytown (TX) Sun, 30 Oct 2023. Article by Melanie Ferguson
Carl B. Dobbins, 1901-1935 who is buried under that marker, came to Baytown in 1931 from Tennessee to work as a gauger for Humble Oil and Refining Company (now ExxonMobil), and married Ella Enderli in 1932. January of 1934 found the couple along with the wife's mother, Mrs. Herman Enderli, sitting in the Law Offices of C. D. Little, Baytown attorney to discuss arrangements for a divorce.
When efforts to effect a reconciliation failed, Dobbins threatened Little, and the attorney was forced to eject him from his office. Mrs. Dobbins and her mother left in their car, while Dobbins hailed a service car driven by M. L. Fisher with instructions to follow.
The two women drove to Goose Creek to the home of an aunt, Mrs. Hazelwood, who was babysitting the Dobbins baby. They had gotten to the front door when Dobbins arrived and rushed up and fired through the door fatally striking Mrs. Enderli and Mrs. Hazelwood. He shot his wife twice also; she survived.
After a year of trials, Dobbins was sentenced to die in the electric chair on Feb. 1. "They have found me guilty and I guess I'll have to pay," he said. "I'm ready to go."
Dobbins asked that he "be buried in the Wiggins Cemetery ... across Market Street from Robert E. Lee High School with a monument placed on the road where all [especially the students] could see with this inscription, 'The Wages of Sin Are Death!"
Then he added, "Look what sin did to me!"
Source: The Baytown (TX) Sun, 30 Oct 2023. Article by Melanie Ferguson
When efforts to effect a reconciliation failed, Dobbins threatened Little, and the attorney was forced to eject him from his office. Mrs. Dobbins and her mother left in their car, while Dobbins hailed a service car driven by M. L. Fisher with instructions to follow.
The two women drove to Goose Creek to the home of an aunt, Mrs. Hazelwood, who was babysitting the Dobbins baby. They had gotten to the front door when Dobbins arrived and rushed up and fired through the door fatally striking Mrs. Enderli and Mrs. Hazelwood. He shot his wife twice also; she survived.
After a year of trials, Dobbins was sentenced to die in the electric chair on Feb. 1. "They have found me guilty and I guess I'll have to pay," he said. "I'm ready to go."
Dobbins asked that he "be buried in the Wiggins Cemetery ... across Market Street from Robert E. Lee High School with a monument placed on the road where all [especially the students] could see with this inscription, 'The Wages of Sin Are Death!"
Then he added, "Look what sin did to me!"
Source: The Baytown (TX) Sun, 30 Oct 2023. Article by Melanie Ferguson
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