Eunice Mitchell (b. 1927, d. 2012) contributed to the following account of the establishment of the Mahoney Community:



Around the year 1900, George W. Mahoney came to Northeast Texas from Washington State and purchased land that had been "Kimberly Ranch" and started to plan for a city that he wanted to build. He hired Joseph Brashear to survey the land and draw up a plat for the town. On the plat, which was registered with the County in 1902, he had drawn in places for a school, two churches and a cemetery. That land was donated to the Community by Mr. Mahoney. The town was not to be - but the small Community, named for him, remains.



Construction of the Methodist Church building was begun in 1919. One of the principal builders was Mr. Bryan T. Lawson whose grandson, Bruce, now serves as the President of the Mahoney Cemetery Association Board of Directors.



The cemetery is still in use and is well kept. It has a Board of Directors to oversee it and is governed by a recently updated set of Bylaws duly recorded in the Office of the Hopkins County Clerk. Records have been kept by faithful descendants of those interred in Mahoney Cemetery and managed by the Mahoney Cemetery Association Board of Directors.



The cemetery is east of the old Mahoney Methodist church building. To reach the cemetery from Sulphur Springs, Texas, drive seven (7) miles East on I 30 to exit 131 (Farm Road 69). Turn North and go three (3) miles on Farm Road 69 to County Road 3635. Turn East and drive aprox. 3/10 mile. The church building and the cemetery are on the North side of the road.



In 1901 W. D. Davis was granted a post office under the name of White Oak. Several of his descendants still live near this community, including Algarine Davis Jordan. A school with the same name began operating after 1900 and in 1905 had an enrollment of fifty.



The post office was closed in 1904, but the town continued to prosper, and at its height prior to World War I it had a sawmill, two cotton gins, a barber shop, a doctor’s office, a syrup mill, and a blacksmith. By the mid 1930s the village was known as Mahoney and had a school, two churches, one business (the Lucas mercantile, located on the SE corner of FR-69 and CR 3635), a number of scattered houses, and a reported population of fifteen. The school and one of the churches were later closed, but in the mid-1960s the town still had a church, a cemetery, and a number of far houses(1).



The Mahoney Cemetery Association has upgraded the facilities immensely over the past 3 years, adding city water supply, sewer disposal system, a modern restroom, concrete driveway within the cemetery, graveled entrance to the front gate….. with funds raised by gifts, musical fundraisers, and community garage sales.



The Annual Mahoney Reunion is scheduled for the Second Weekend in June.