Stony United Methodist Church - Stony, TX
N 33° 13.409 W 097° 21.270
14S E 653335 N 3677269
The Stony United Methodist Church is located at 13911 Old Stony Rd, Stony, TX.
Waymark Code: WMRJ7B
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/26/2016
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This church, the Stony School (on the property adjacent to the church), the Stony Cemetery, and a few odds and sods -- like an old service station -- are about all that remain of Stony, TX (sometimes "Stoney"), and the nearest municipality is Ponder, 7.3 miles away. While the church has a website (see link), there is not much in the way of history -- the minister told me that they've had services there since at least the 1940s -- so the
Handbook of Texas Online fills in with some information about this nearly-vanished community:
Stony is on Farm Road 2622 two miles east of the Wise county line and ten miles west of Denton in far west Denton County. It was settled in the late 1850s and was named for the stony area in which it was located. Its population never exceeded fifty, probably due to the emergence of Justin, eight miles southwest, as a shipping point for area farmers. Stony had a post office from 1879 to 1918. In 1884 it had a mill, a gin, four churches, two schools, and a population estimated at 130. By 1890 the population had dropped to fifty. In 1914 the town had 100 residents, a doctor, a blacksmith, and at least two stores. From 1933 to 2000 its population was estimated at twenty-five. In 2004 a school building dating back to 1884 still stood in the community, and a restored 1839 log cabin, located nearby, was open to the public as local museum.