Mrs. Mahoney Dies at Forney
Prominent Worker for Democratic Party Succumbs
Dallas Morning News
23 March 1926
Mrs. Nonie Boren Mahoney, for many years actively engaged in support of the Democratic Party in Texas and one of the leading proponents for woman suffrage, died Saturday at the home of her niece, Mrs. J.C. Reagin, in Forney. Her death came after a long illness. In 1923 Mrs. Mahoney was named Democratic committeewoman for Texas. Burial took place Sunday in Tyler.
Mrs. Mahoney was born and reared in East Texas and her family has been in America since Colonial days. She was a member of the Colonial Dames Society. Mrs. Mahoney was the fourth generation of the Boren family in Texas. Her grandfather, Samuel Hampson Boren, fought for Texas independence in the war with Mexico. Mrs. Sarah Long, her great-grandmother, helped mold bullets in the old blockhouse at Nacogdoches during Indian raids. Maj. B.N Boren, father of Mrs. Mahoney, served with the Confederate forces in the Civil War.
In December, 1923, she was named Democratic committeewoman for Texas at a meeting of the State Democratic Executive Committee. During the long political battle of women for the right of franchise, Mrs. Mahoney was conspicuously in the fighting line, and after the achievement of the goal she was an active battler for the Democratic Party. She was a charter member of the Dallas Equal Suffrage Association and served that organization as president.
She worked actively in behalf of the primary suffrage bill enacted during the Hobby administration and for the amendment to the United States Constitution granting suffrage to women. She was one of two women members of the Democratic administration executive committee who had charge of the Wilson forces in the State in his last campaign for President.
Mrs. Mahoney was the only woman in the State who was designated to preside over a precinct convention in the May (1920) presidential conventions. She also was a member of the board of the National Woman Suffrage Association.
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Mrs. Mahoney’s Body Is Buried in Native Soil
Dallas Morning News
Tuesday, 23 March 1926, Page 1-1
Special to The News
TYLER, Texas, March 22 – The body of Mrs. Nonie Boren Mahoney, proponent for woman suffrage and prominent in Democratic politics, was buried in Oakwood Cemetery here Sunday afternoon, following services conducted by the Rev. W.M. Claybrook, pastor of Christ Episcopal Church.
Mrs. Mahoney was born in Tyler.
Note: Nonie McKellar Boren Mahoney was buried at the Oakwood Cemetery in Tyler, Smith County, Texas near her parents.
