Aley is on Farm Road 85 twenty-seven miles northwest of Athens in far northwestern Henderson County. The settlement was evidently founded soon after the Civil War. A post office operated there from 1894 to 1907. In the early 1900s J. O. Hall and W. C. Higgins operated a local general store, and by 1910 the settlement had a combination church and school, a store operated by James Burns, and a population of twenty-five. In the mid-1930s it had a population of sixty-five, two churches, a store, and a school. After World War II the population dropped to fifty and the school closed. In the early 1990s a cemetery and two stores remained. In 2000 the population was twenty.
The above was quoted from: http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hra21
Wow! The things you learn when you investigate a little 
WHITE MEN LYNCHED IN TEXAS
Mob in Henderson County Kills Three Farmers Accused of Having Aided a Murderer to Escape.
DALLAS, Texas, May 25. -- News reached here to-night of a triple lynching near Aley, a small village in Henderson County, that occurred late last night. Aley is situated between Cedar Creek and Trinity River, seventy-five miles southeast of Dallas, and fully fifteen miles from any railroad, telegraph, or telephone connection.
The full story was published by New York Times May 26, 1899. Read the story here: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=F30715FC3F5414728DDDAF0A94DD405B8985F0D3
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