BRANTLEY COUNTY, GEORGIA

 

POST MASTERS IN BRANTLEY COUNTY, GEORGIA

Some Post Offices Were Originally in Old Wayne County

Maintained by Thomas "Earl" Cleland,

Sponsored by The Brantley County Historical and Preservation Society, Inc., An Affiliated Chapter of the Georgia Historical Society.

WAYNESVILLE, GEORGIA

John Fort, Jr. 1826

William H. Tison 6/21/1841

Sylvester Mumford 1/19/1844

Thomas D. Harrison 8/11/1853

Joseph R. Richardson 4/22/1854

Jasper N. Highsmith 12/31/1859

Mrs. Arminta Highsmith 2/27/1866

Miss Amanda E. Highsmith 4/6/1866

David Lissner 1/14/1868

Benjamin Hirsch 7/10/1868

James F. King, Jr. 6/11/1877

William B. Burroughs 12/22/1879

Amanda E. McSweeney 4/28/1881

John W. Hatcher 5/17/1881

Jasper N. Highsmith 7/17/1885

Everett Highsmith 5/12/1891

Alexander G.Holzendorf 8/21/1893

Augustus D. Middleton 2/1/1897

Timothy McSweeney 10/28/1898

Mrs. A.E. McSweeney 5/13/1915 (Changed to Brantley Co. 1/1/1921)

Miss Minnie J. Bennett 6/2/1926

James W. Pearson 3/19/1928

William M. West 7/3/1929

Fred W. Gibson 11/17/1932 (Assumed Charge) 11/23/1932

(Acting) William O. Beach 1/31/1933 (Confirmed)

2/16/1933 (Assumed Charge)

Mrs. Alma R. Johnson 3/31/1953 (Assumed Charge) 4/20/1953 (Acting

Charles D. Gibson 7/23/1953 (Confirmed) 9/11/1953 (Assumed Charge)

Grady E. Boyd 5/27/1958 (Assumed Charge)

Mrs. Louise Drury Jones 8/31/1962 (Assumed Charge) 9/10/1962 (Acting)

Dwanda Parrott

SATILLA POST OFFICE

James W. Armstrong 8/22/1849

Harley Jones 3/23/1849 (Discontinued 3//5/1850)

LULATON POST OFFICE

Newton J. Jones 8/19/1872

J.N. Highsmith 10/1/1874

Mrs. Arminta Highsmith 2/14/1881

Benjamin D. Waldron 5/5/1885

Benjamin F. Jones 10/28/1887

Ira M. Raybon 10/29/1895

Daniel B. Raybon 4/12/1899

James W. Courson 9/9/1905

NAHUNTA POST OFFICE

Bardin H. Aycock 5/3/1877

William B. Aycock 10/12/1877

Joseph A. Janes 10/8/1880

Noel D. Lary 11/16/1880

Mrs. Sallie B. Lary 1/30/1891

Albert E. Bennett 11/29/1897

Daniel J. Herrin 1/29/1898

James D. Crawford 1/25/1899

William F. Brown 12/8/1902

John W. Brooker 3/11/1907

William Peek 7/31/1907 (Declined-Rescinded 10/5/1907)

John W. Brooker 7/31/1907 (Changed to Brantley Co. 1/1/1921)

ATKINSON POST OFFICE

Established on January 16, 1880 and discontinued on December 31, 1951 (Mail Distributed from Hortense)

William A. Prentice 1/16/1880

John F. Terry 9/24/1885

Robert Knox 3/7/1887

William E. Middleton 4/23/1898

Benjamin G. Middleton 1/27/1900

Alice Averitt 6/27/1901

Lillian Averitt 3/13/1915 (Changed to Brantley Co. 1/1/1921)

Mrs. Gussie McEachern 3/24/1928

Alice Averitt 10/28/1930

Mrs. Mary Isabel Penland 3/1/1942 (Assumed Charge) 4/12/1942 (Acting) 8/13/1942 (Confirmed)

Mrs. Sarah E. Middleton 12/12/1944 (Assumed Charge) 2/14/1945 (Acting) 6/19/1945 (Confirmed)

HORTENSE POST OFFICE

Charles E. Dozier 2/19/1883

Thomas J. Covington 2/18/1884

William W. Timmons 9/28/1885

Benjamin O. Middleton 11/1/1886

Major L. Moore 1/13/1892

William D. Middleton 12/27/1894

George B. Lewis 3/8/1898

Joseph H. Strickland 8/8/1898

George B. Lewis 9/7/1899

Robert C. Middleton 10/4/1901

William D. Middleton 2/4/1902

Alvah R. Adams 10/29/1909

(Changed to Brantley Co. 1/1/1921)

HICKOX POST OFFICE

James J. Hickox 3/7/1900

Henry S. Herrin 4/14/1903

Jackson H. Mattox 3/23/1920

Russell Thomas 9/12/1921

William H.O. Smith 12/14/1921

Gilbert E. McGauley 11/7/1922

(Changed to Brantley Co. 1/1/1921 )

FENDIG POST OFFICE

Wilbur W. Davis 10/25/1902 (Rescinded 5/26/1903)

Leonidas J. McKinnon 12/23/1903

Thomas J. Littlefield 7/16/1909

James B. Carroll 9/10/1910

Mortimer L. McKinnon 12/21/1915

John P. Strickland 2/27/1917 (Discontinued 1/31/1918)

Mail Distributed from Needmore

NEEDMORE POST OFFICE

George B. Lewis 4/8/1903

Isreal Lanier 2/8/1909

Thomas G. Lanier 8/30/1913

(Changed to Brantley Co. 1/1/1921)

RAYBON POST OFFICE

Millard F. Lewis 5/8/1903

(Discontinued 7/14/1917)

BROWNTOWN POST OFFICE

Barney B. Gowen 4/1/1912

Franklin P. Middleton 9/10/1912

Jasper W. Harvey 9/10/1913

(Discontinued 6/30/1914) Mail to Fendig

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