Mahoney, Texas. (original) (raw)

In a previous life: It was in the early fall of 1962, when my employment moved me to Hopkins County, Sulphur Springs, Texas. There I lived in a rented house with my family for a full three years, until the early fall of 1965.

Then my employment transferred me to Dallas, where, after selling our property in Mahoney, we managed to make payment on our first home purchase in Mesquite, a Dallassuburb. We lived a short distance from the �Big Ten� Shopping Center in Mesquiteand I was about twelve miles to my work base near down town Dallas.

Those three years in Sulphur Springs were exciting and enjoyable; a real learning experience for a couple of young Native Texans. Our youngest son was born at the Hopkins County Memorial Hospital in 1963.

While living and working in Sulphur Springs, it seemed to me we would live there long enough to invest in some real property with a potential for profit. So I did!

In 1964, property came on the market that I could afford to buy. And guess what?... It was the old town square of Mahoney. I purchased two acres on the southeast corner of Farm Roads 69 and 1537, about four miles due south of the thriving metropolis of Dike, Texas. Of course I could envision building my wife a nice, big, comfortable brick home on the corner lot there.

But that never happened! I had to sell the Mahoney property to help buy our new home in Mesquitein the early fall of 1965. A relative of the County Sheriff paid me a good price for it. I have never regretted selling Mahoney, Texas, nor leaving Hopkins County at all. I left some good times and wonderful memories there.

It is ironic here, how all these three year intervals consistently occurred in the early fall every time. Once again, in the early fall of 1968, my job transferred me from Dallasto Houston. We then decided to live in Montgomery County, Conroe, Texas, where we rented for a while and later bought a small house.

During those early years my wife was a stay at home mom, raising two young sons. She later became employed outside the home. Here again, in the early fall of 1971. She found a job she dearly loved and spent she next 31 � years as a secretary for Montgomery County Texas, and retired in 2002.

See Mahoney, Texas

� Nolan Maxie "Nolan Maxie"

October 1, 2010 Column
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