Wythe County Post Offices and Postmasters 1792-1900

 

Alloway

Austinville, established before 1798

James Austin, April 1798

James Newell, Jr., May 20, 1802

James Saunders, June 10, 1811

Adams Saunders, February 2, 1816

Andrew Kincannon, September 3, 1823

Alexander Pierce, July 23, 1835

Andrew F. Gregory, February 17, 1845

                                Post Office discontinued October 16, 1845

                                Re-established August 16, 1848

William Kohler, August 16, 1848

Andrew F. Gregory, December 31, 1857

William Kohler, March 4, 1858

                                Post Office discontinued October 4, 1866

                                Re-established June 16, 1888

George W. Smyth, June 16, 1888

John C. Raper, July 7, 1888

Charles Hicks, April 24, 1903

Barren Springs

Bertha

Black Lick

Blue Spring

Brown Hill – See Ivanhoe

Buffalo Ford

Cedar Mounts

Cedar Run Mines

Cedar Springs

Clarks

Corinth

Coventon

Cripple Creek

Crockett’s Depot, established September 22, 1874; name changed to Crockett April 3, 1907

            James E. Ward, September 22, 1874

James W. Leslie, August 4, 1881

William D. Johnson, March 31, 1886

James H. Wilson, March 26, 1889

James E. Ward, September 14, 1893

John S. Dix, May 8, 1897

William F. Sutliff, April 22, 1914

Draper’s Valley, established April 1831; discontinued April 1832

Jacob Drennon

Eagle Iron Works

Effy

Etter

Foster Falls

Glade (Raper)

Graham’s Forge

Halsey

Hemlock

High Rock

Hubble

Idesbide (Iderbide)

Ivanhoe, established as Red Bluff April 4, 1840; name changed to Brown Hill on February 23, 1856; name changed to Van Liew on January 30, 1882; name changed to Ivanhoe Furnace on April 14, 1884; and finally the name was changed to Ivanhoe on August 25, 1890.

            Isaac Painter, May 11, 1840

            Jerome Blair, March 23, 1842

            Abner Thompson, October 4, 1842

            Robert Holliday, August 19, 1847

            Jesse H. Pepper, February 23, 1856

            John Blair, April 15, 1857

            Eliza T. Lockett, January 25, 1858

            Higginson H. Lockett, October 13, 1859

            Jacob M. Moore, January 19, 1860

            Callohill M. Kitchens, November 28, 1865

            William O. Moore, March 28, 1873

            William M. Painter, January 13, 1874

            Charles S. Van Liew, January 30, 1882

            Cornelius S. Van Liew, February 7, 1882

            William C. Van Doren, April 14, 1884

            John G. Early, March 31, 1886

            Jerre G. Early, April 10, 1886

            Charles L. Smith, April 8, 1889

            William C. Van Doren, June 4, 1889

            Francis A. Grove, April 4, 1891

            J. Burton Peirce, June 13, 1893

            Mathew W. Jewett, June 11, 1897

            Samuel E. Porter, April 4, 1914

Ivanhoe Furnace – See Ivanhoe

Jackson’s Ferry

Kent

Kent’s Mills

Kyle

Loneash

Max Meadows, established January 7, 1855

            Thomas Wood

            Randall McGavock

            Thomas Wood

             George Shoemaker

            Robert Hanson

            Bartholomew Baxter

            Lewis Kincannon

            W. A. Brown

            Lewis Kincannon

            Miss Sally Kincannon

            James Hudson

            Eldridge Hager

            Thompson Crockett

            Benjamin Rickey

            Joseph McGavock

            William Hurt

            Robert Grove

            Thomas Simmerman

            E. Brown Porter

            Donald R. Dunford

Moore

Newberry Mills

Noble

Patterson

Poplar Camp

Petunia

Raven Cliff

Red Bluff – see Ivanhoe

Reed Island

Rural Retreat, established 1833

            Lewis Marshall July 27, 1833

            Lewellen C. Newland, January 5, 1835

            William Newland, April 8, 1837

            John B. Straw, December 19, 1838

            Joseph J. Snavely, May 4, 1858

            Haywood H. Holbrook, April 23, 1860

            Charles Baumgardner, February 19, 1866

Miss Eliza J. Burkett, March 29, 1866

William Bateman, July 17, 1872

William G. Garnes, April 8, 1879

Edwin H. Sanders, March 20, 1885

Charles Spence, June 10, 1889

J. W. Davis, September 14, 1893

John W. Eiffert, December 4, 1897

John W. Davis, February 28, 1907

Rowe

Sharon, established January 1832

John Shannon

Speedwell

Springdale, established April 1827, discontinued August 1827

Samuel H. Gordon

Star Cave

Sun Set (Riddlebarger)

Van Liew – See Ivanhoe

Walton Furnace

Wythe Court House, changed to Wytheville on May 15, 1839.

Jesse Evans, August 1792

George Oury, January 1794

William Hays, April 1, 1796

Samuel Crockett, September 30, 1796

William Drope, January 1, 1797

William Hay, September 1798

George Oury, February 12, 1802

Augustus Oury, October 19, 1814

John R. Nye, September 18, 1820

George Oury, March 12, 1822

James H. Piper, September 6, 1826

Samuel F. H. Currie, May 16, 1827

Ephraim McGavock, September 10, 1834

Joseph F. Kent, July 14, 1840

John W. Truslow, July 7, 1842

Joseph F. Kent, May 17, 1848

Clayron J. Noel, April 3, 1851

Marco B. Carter, January 30, 1855

Clayron J. Noel, February 23, 1855

Charles H. Fontaine, March 30, 1861

James T. Ballow, September 25, 1865

William De Vlaming, March 1, 1867

William F. Slater, June 7, 1870

James H. Matney, June 25, 1878

William F. Slater, December 20, 1882

Alexander S. Haller, July 28, 1885

William G. Repass, November 19, 1885

Tyler G. Kent, June 9, 1894

Maggie W. Jordan, November 22, 1898

Robert L. Poage, January 22, 1903

 

Source: Record Group 28, “Records of the U. S. Postal Service,” National Archives, Washington, DC and Hall, Virginius Cornick, Jr., “Virginia Post Offices, 1789-1859,” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 81, No. 1 (January 1973,) pp. 49-97.  Additional information from David E. Knell, Emma L. Jones, R. Neal Kinder, Donna Stevenson and Shirley Sayers.