Chapter Twenty

Post Offices and Postmasters

Page 332- 334

It is impossible to give the location of each office. We will try to give an approximate area location as it relates to some other office where the mail was dispatched to at the closing of the office. Some of the postmasters who served an office would be found as serving in another later on in time and some distance from his first office. It is likely that someone who could get an office established did not want to operate the office himself and would hire someone as postmaster.

One interesting part of the information found in the research was an office by the name of Sherman, established in 1870 with the courthouse letters indicating it to be a county seat. The postmaster was Thomas Sutton then Daniel Wickersham. The office was discontinued November 14, 1871. This office was located near Talbert's Ferry on White River some eleven miles east of Yellville.

Etmo Ingenthron, who has written a history of Taney County, Missouri, has given me help in locating several offices in the north part of the county. He is now writing a history about the Civil War and hopes to find the reason for Sherman being a county seat office. He thinks the papers of the county may have been moved to this place because there was no courthouse at Yellville, the courthouse having been burned about this time. At this time the answer is not available to us.

Records obtainable are not always complete and it is likely that errors and omissions may appear hereafter as an effort is being made to list in alphabetical order the names of the post offices that have had an existence, the year such office was established, the name or names of those who served as postmasters, the date the office was discontinued, and the location, if possible.

Adams -1907- Emma Adams, 1910- South of Yellville

Ball - April 22, 1881 - John H. Pangle, June 22, 1881- unknown

Bend - 1907- Austin Brown, 1910- near Peel

Bendona -1924- Nancy Dixon, 1931 - near Peel

Brodie - 1910- James B. Melton, 1911 - Cowan Barrens

Bnmo - November 10, 1885 - F. G. Huddleston, H. A. Fulbright, William T. Thunnan, G. W. Wickersham, H. F. Cantrell, T.J. Evans, Felix G. Huddleston, Robert E. Keeter, Arthur V. Adams, Dolphus A. Angel, Tollie Adkins, (acting) Robert W. Elam, Mrs. Willie F. Burleson. Office remains in 1976.

Buffalo - January 5, 1848 - Ele B. Lines, J. H. Tunstall, Ambrose Cochran - discontinued 1856 but re-established as Toney in 1884 with L. D. Toney as postmaster; was discontinued shortly thereafter and re-established as Sticker City with Emil Golden as postmaster, followed by L. D. Toney, Sarah D. Blankenship. The name changed back to Buffalo in 1893- M. G. Stookey, William H. Casteel, Bob Reynolds, Bret Record, George W. Hudson. Office was moved to Baxter County June 4, 1923.

Bull Shoals - 1949 - Rosalie Batchelder, Doris Griffin - office remains 1976.

Clear Creek - November 11, 1855 - name changed to Powell in 1883 and to Pyatt in 1904. According to Mrs. June Young, the first post office in the area was a private post office located on what is now the Frank Hagy farm on Clear Creek and was operated by a Mr. Stanley - an ancestor of J. Gordon Stanley, the present postmaster of Pyatt. Other postmasters were: Miles Patton, J. V. Cunningham, Robert F. Patterson, David C. Coulson, P. G. Magness, R. S. Lundy, J. F. Davis, J. D. McGregor, A. J. Bradford, S.C. Dodd, I. P. House, J. 0. Ledbetter, Harvey Dodd, Cam Milum, Carl L. Briggs, Robert L. Godfrey and Gordon Stanley, the present postmaster.

Claffern - 1916- Everett Overton, 1917- near Rush.

Comel - January 16, 1906 - A. G. Pierce, J. E. Mallard, W. 0. Emerson, Robert D. McKay - name changed to. Turkey in 1918 - L. B. Brookshire, tha P. Burleson, Mrs. Pearl Burleson, Brice Burleson - 1953 - mail to Yellville.

Cowan - 1900- King Doshier, Alex Cowan -1904- near Yellville

Demby - 1898- Charles F. Burnes -1899- Water Creek area

Doddsville - 1872 - Hiempsal S. Dodd - changed to Dodd City in 1888 - L. C. Gray, William L. Clark, Charles E. Wagoner - 1931

Dugger - 1907 - M. E. Taylor, Mary E. Brannon, F. L. Know, Hannah E. Mitchell - 1918 - Rush vicinity

Dubuque - 1856- Thomas G. Scott - 1864- unknown

Eros - 1880 - G. W. Jobe, W. H. Couch - 1884 - but re-established in 1886 - James S. Hudson- 1886.

Exeter - 1888 - Luke Matlock - appears that name may have been changed to Marionette and was probably closed in 1889 while James Thompson was postmaster.

Fears -1908- John M. Fears, N. P. Gray, Mary E. Lantz, Benjamin F. Sisney, 1915- vicinity of Oakland

Freck - 1906 - Albert Adams, Jesse M. Baker, W. T. Harris, W. F. Rice, Minnie A. Harris, Jesse M. Baker, B. F. Burnes, Hester Burnes, 1953

Flippin - 1878 -James F. Jackson, George Sewell, H. C. Bulhs, William H. Russell, M. P. Fishburn, J. H. Talbert, James J. Messick, W. J. Pierce, Ernest McBee, John H. Burch, D. M. Lee, J. R. Wood, E. K Noe, Glenn Johnson - Vena Wood, Officer in Charge - Everett Dardin - present postmaster 1976 -

Georges Creek - 1879 - William Denton, William H. Horn, J. K. Davis, Lafayette Davenport -. office discontinued in 1885 but was re-established in 1886-James L. Hudson -1905

Hampton Valley - 1878 - William C. McEntire, W. Depriest - 1880 probably near Bruno on Hampton Creek Helva - 1917- Henry Sour - 1918- vicinity of Rush

Hepsey - 1896 - Erasmus E. Adams, Leonard Keeling - 1924 - Southeast corner of the county

Jacfonton - 1902- John Q. Carter, E. N. McGinnis -1903- near Buffalo

Keystone - 1904- J. R. Wheeler, William T. O'Bryan, E. Stickler, Thomas J. Wheeler - 1911- probably near Buffalo

Kingdon Springs - 1902- Felix Wallace, William R. Noe, U. S. Fisher, W. T. Penn, Joe D. Hardy, L. D. Bolin - 1933

Lion Hill - 1895 - M. F. Tunstall, J. A. Survy, William H. Tripp, 1899 - near Hand Valley

Maryhattieanna - 1897- Col. W. A. Webber - 1899? - near mine in Rush Creek area, probably

McBee Landing -1887- Winnifred McBee - 1906- near Cotter

Monarch - 1887 - J. W. Smith, T. J. Smith, Zed Griffith, James F. Sloan, Bert Whitmore, H. K. Stevenson, Ford Whitmore, Ell E. Davis, 1955

Mt. Perrion - 1921-John T. Motley - 1926- near Protem,

Missouri Mull - 1919 - J. J. Davenport, Marvin Gilley, Hugh McClain, Zula P. Mc Clam, Ruth A. Hollingsworth, Ruth Sailors, John A. Ware, Ruth C. Stamper, Margaret Wilson, Mary A. Losey, Willodene Barnes, Benjamin H. Smith, Alice Smith - 1954