Loyal Valley is an unincorporated farming and ranching community in the southwestern corner of Mason County, Texas, United States, that was established in 1858, and is 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Cherry Spring.

[9][10] According to Meusebach's granddaughter Irene Marschall King, he named the area for his personal loyalty to the Union that he had maintained during the American Civil War.

[13][14] Philip Buchmeyer (or Buchmeier) was the second husband of the widowed Augusta Lehmann, and stepfather to her sons Herman and Willie.

In 1875, the Mason County Hoo Doo War erupted over cattle rustling and those who took the law into their own hands.

[11] In the midst of the war, Loyal Valley home owner Tim Williamson[16] was murdered by a dozen masked vigilantes who accused him of cattle theft.