Planes, Trains & Heroes: A Story of Warner Robins and the Robins Region

FROM THE PEOPLE
“I am Charlie Scott, Jr. and was born August 6, 1942 in Grovania,
Georgia/Houston County to parents Charlie Scott, Sr. and Annie Mae Scott. I am
the oldest of twelve children. My father was a Southern Railroad employee. Later
the name changed to Norfolk Southern Railroad. As a boy growing up in
Grovania, I went to school in Methodist and Baptist churches. All schools were
segregated. Later we went to a one room school building with grades 1-7 in the
same room. We just used different books. Grovania had a post office. All mail
was general delivery. The locomotive stopped to pick up people and mail.
Grovania had Ellis Grocery Store, the train depot, and a cotton gin. It was a
farming community. We lived in Railroad Section houses. There were four
houses and one larger house for the foreman. My father, Charlie Scott, had a
brother who lived in one of those houses. He had another brother, Cornelius
Scott, Jr., who lived in section houses in Kathleen and worked for the same
railroad. All section houses closed in the early 1950s and all three brothers
moved to Warner Robins. They bought land where Scott Boulevard is today. I’ve
had three brothers work for the railroad: Calvin, Lamar, Kendal and Terry still
work for Norfolk Southern.”
- Charlie Scott, Jr. (undated from files at Warner Robins Convention and Visitors Bureau).
Top: Lieutenant Charlie Scott.
Middle: The children of Lieutenant
Charlie Scott (from left ro right):
Charlie Scott, Jr.; Willie Frank Scott;
Willie Matthew Scott; Jessie Lee Scott;
Calvin Scott; Mary Lois Scott Riley;
Vera Scott Walton; Edward Scott;
Elverna Scott Cherry; Emma Jean
Scott; Terry Scott; and Lama
Kendall Scott.
Bottom: Grovania, Georgia.
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