Mahoney Family Mausoleum - Phoenix, Arizona
N 33° 27.250 W 112° 06.637
12S E 396782 N 3702189
A wealthy doctor and his wife have an elaborate mausoleum in this early Phoenix cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMBQEH
Location: Arizona, United States
Date Posted: 06/13/2011
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This is a wonderful example of Egyptian Revival design. The decorations on it could have been copied from ancient Egyptian tombs, from the lotus columns to the cobra headed vulture wings. Sadly, the stone appears to have a lot of damage, like many tombstones in this cemetery. Parts are starting to flake off, which will eventually obscure the decorative parts of it as well as the names.
Dr. O.L. Mahoney
Born March 7,1839
Died June 12, 1915
Virginia Mahoney
Born March 17, 1848
Died April 4, 1924
Apparently this doctor has historical importance. I found this brief biography online.
Dr. O.L.Mahoney, the efficient superintendent of the county hospital at Phoenix, was born March 7, 1839 in Jefferson County, Tennessee, being the eldest of a family of ten children born to the marriage of Dr. James W. and Amanda M. (Turnley) Mahoney, who were also natives of Tennessee. His great grandfather was one of the colonies' defenders during the struggle for independence from Great Britain and
his maternal grandfather was a soldier of the war of 1812, participating in the battle of New Orleans under General Andrew Jackson.
The immediate subject of this sketch, Dr. O.L. Mahoney, received a liberal education and began the study of medicine when yet in his teens. In 1861 he became a member of Company C. Ninth Arkansas Volunteer Infantry. During the time of his enlistment Dr. Mahoney was in active field service and witnessed some of the most hotly contested battles of the war, among them being Belmont, Corinth, Shiloh, Prairie Landing, Little Rock and Arkansas Post. The literary education of Dr. Mahoney was acquired at Pine Bluff, White Sulphur Springs and at St. John's College at Little Rock, his professional learning was from the Medical College of Ohio from which he was graduated in 1867. Prior to this time, however, he had practiced medicine. His first location was at Murphysboro, Illinois, but after a residence there of but a few months he attached himself to an emigrant train that was conveying many cattle to the great West. With this protection from depredating bands of Indians he got as far west as Maricopa Wells, where he parted from the caravan and from which point he pushed on to Wickenburg, then having a population of about 350 and being one of the most important points in the Territory. After a residence at this place of about one year he returned to Murphysboro, Illinois,
where he was actively engaged in medical practice until May 1883 when he located permanently at Phoenix. In 1837 he was selected to remove the Arizona insane patients from the asylum at Stockton, California to the new asylum at Phoenix and served as the first superintendent. In 1883 he was appointed superintendent of the county hospital, served four years, and was re-appointed to the position in 1891 and is still serving in that capacity. Dr. Mahoney is among the well known men of the Territory, has filled various positions of honor and trust with signal ability and satisfaction to all concerned and is a member of the Odd fellows and Ancient Order of United workman.
In 1870 he married Miss Virginia Rasson, a lady of high
attainments, a graduate of the Women's College, Chicago who was born in Tennessee.
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