MOON
Moon is a large community that includes most of the upper half of the opened fork of Paint.
The center of this community is the Moon Post Office. Though the post office was
established about 1910, the community, about 3 miles on each side of it, up and down Paint Creek
is called, Moon.
The name of Moon came about when Jim F. Wallen sent a list of names to Washington that he would
like the new post office to be called. Moon was the one selected by the Post Office Department.
Jim Wallin had been postmaster at Relief before this. Postmasters at Moon have been: Jim Wallin,
Della McDaniels, Cora Ferguson, Leander Ferguson and Florence Ison.
Near the head of Opened Fork is Split Wood, a small tributary. It was given that name because Henry
Roseberry, an early settler, made so many staves there. Andy Fyffe established the Fyffe post office
on this small creek.
(Information from Early Morgan County by Arthur C. Johnson, published in 1974)
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