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Past County Postmasters

Submitted by Belinda (Brown) Winston

 

Kingsland

Austin L. Gresham

Postmaster

06/26/1883

Zilpha J. Smith

Postmaster

01/17/1888

Nathaniel R. Tisdale

Postmaster

07/26/1889

William Dykes 

Postmaster

08/19/1893

Nathaniel R. Tisdale

Postmaster

07/22/1897

Leonides P. Hamilton

Postmaster

03/21/1914

Mrs. Jessie Garner

Postmaster

03/20/1919

Mrs. Lois Childs

Acting Postmaster

03/31/1954

Mitchell A. McCoy

Postmaster

09/16/1958

Wardell J. Langford

Acting Postmaster

01/03/1969

Mrs. Mary E. Ratledge

Officer-in-Charge

10/24/1969

Mrs. Mary E. Ratledge

Postmaster

12/11/1971

Roger Lephiew

Officer-in-Charge

02/21/1981

Jimmy W. King

Postmaster

06/21/1981

Donald C. Scogin

Officer-in-Charge

01/21/1987

Brenda M. Lucas

Postmaster

04/11/1987

James A. Harrell

Officer-in-Charge

06/19/1989

Sylvia S. Reddin

Postmaster 

10/17/1989

 

New Edinburg (Originally established as New Edinburg in Dorsey County)

James F. Fowler

Postmaster 

09/25/1876

Thomas D. Tipton

Postmaster

10/16/1889

Jane E. Attwood

Postmaster

10/29/1891

Fannie Tisdale

Postmaster

08/02/1899

John R. Harrison

Postmaster 

02/02/1909

Florine W. Stewart

Postmaster

07/08/1914

Mrs. Vera Garrison

Acting Postmaster

09/24/1934

Finch McCulloch

Postmaster 

01/08/1936

Mrs. Marian W. Harris

Acting Postmaster

07/01/1945

E. Penn Kimbrough

Acting Postmaster 

04/06/1946 

E. Penn Kimbrough

Postmaster

07/14/1947

Marvin T. Word

Acting Postmaster

10/10/1951

Ivan L. Kleinbeck

Postmaster

07/17/1954

Hazel L. Bragg

Officer-in-Charge

01/09/1981

Jack B. Hopson 

Postmaster 

05/16/1981 

 

Rison

Nelson J. C. Johnson

Postmaster

11/01/1883

Charles D. Hawes 

Postmaster 

10/20/1884 

John C. Sullivan 

Postmaster 

07/09/1885 

John M. Taylor 

Postmaster 

09/14/1886 

William M. Boyd 

Postmaster 

08/06/1887 

William Young Evans 

Postmaster 

07/26/1889 

Charles B. Johnson

Postmaster 

02/04/1891 

George H. Tisdale 

Postmaster 

12/05/1911 

Benjamin W. Thomasson 

Postmaster

03/28/1914 

William E. Edwards 

Postmaster 

04/04/1924 

Searcy Elrod 

Postmaster 

06/15/1932 

Joseph W. Elrod 

Acting Postmaster 

10/01/1933 

Ernest R. Maddox 

Postmaster 

02/15/1934 

Leali Attwood 

Postmaster 

12/05/1936 

Rucker C. Carmical 

Postmaster 

08/23/1937 

James G. Mosley 

Postmaster 

04/17/1942 

Agnes T. Vandermark

Acting Postmaster 

05/31/1957 

James H. Creed 

Postmaster 

05/22/1958 

Bervie O. Baker 

Officer-in-Charge 

10/05/1979 

Lester D. Peters 

Postmaster 

12/15/1979 

Mark S. Rogers 

Officer-in-Charge 

01/12/1981 

Evelyn F. Ray 

Postmaster 

05/16/1981 

Jimmy C. Holloway 

Officer in Charge 

03/02/1984 

Dalton A. Hicks, Jr. 

Postmaster 

08/18/1984 

 

Source:  Research Administrator / Historian Office of the Postmaster General, United States Postal Service.  June 4, 1990.