"The Hood's Methodist Church was organized Mar 8, 1885 on the property of Braid Berry under a mesquite tree. Organizers were Solomon Simmons, Jack Harris, Billy O'Neal, Elizah Porter, Francis Harris, Nellie Simmons, Isham Hood and Nancy O'Neal. The church was named for Isham Hood.

Members there originally had a brush arbor to worship under but winter came and the members of the congregation had to build a log hut, running poles through walls for the seats. It had a dirt floor, no windows and kerosene for light.

In 1894, AUG [Ebert] gave land to construct a permanent building and the Ackman brothers were the contractors. The trustees at that time were Willis Smith, Miles Barksdale, and Eli Porter. In 1930 a storm blew the building away, but under the guidance of the Reverend L. H. Richardson the building previously used by the Monthalia Methodist Episcopal Church across the river was moved to Hood's Point and remodeled."

—Octavine Freeman Harris (née Morris), 1900–2004, as collected and transcribed in The History of Gonzales County, Texas—Volume 1, published 1986, and held at the Gonzales County Clerk's Office in Gonzales, Texas

Solomon Simmons [c. 1861–1917] and his wife Nellie Simmons (nee Stone) [1860–1959], A. J. "Jack" Harris [1861–1933] and his wife Francis Harris (formerly Mrs. Francis Price) [c. 1864], William "Billie" Oneal [1862–1912] and his sister Nancy Oneal [1855–1930], Elijah "Eli" Porter [c. 1838], and Isham Hood [c. 1825] established Hood's Methodist Church, which was named for Isham Hood. As stated, it initially consisted of a brush arbor and was later replaced by a rudimentary log hut. This reflected the communal dedication of formerly enslaved families who built civic and spiritual institutions amid the adversities of post-Emancipation life. 

Although multiple individuals were involved in the founding of Hood's Point Methodist Church in 1885 the community came to bear the name of Isham Hood. While the precise reasoning is unrecorded, naming conventions within post-Emancipation settlements often reflect early or symbolic contributions, seniority, or community respect. The decision to name the church, and by extension, the community, after Isham Hood suggests he held a foundational or leadership role that was recognized by his contemporaries.

It is essential to reaffirm the full collective of organizers as recorded by Octavine Freeman Harris (1900–2004) by the historical commission as those named in the collective are often dimmed in the broader historical memory. These were not just names, but lives forged in the crucible of Emancipation, hands calloused by labor and lifted in praise. What they built together was more than a church—it was a testament of survival, a sanctuary born of brush and timber, faith and fierce resolve. That this place would come to bear the name of one man, while others fell into shadow, is the injustice of forgetting. Let the record show: the Hood's Point Methodist Church was not the vision of one, but the covenant of many—each soul sacred, each name enduring. This gathering of formerly enslaved Black Texans—many of whom had endured the violent transitions of Emancipation, Jubilee, and Reconstruction—committed themselves to building a spiritual home with nothing but brush arbors, log huts, and the faith that their new freedom could anchor something enduring. 

The church was not the work of a single family, but a coalition of visionaries, each carrying the weight of survival and the urgency of generational change.