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KELLERTON POST OFFICE, RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA

Kellerton Post Office

Fred A. BROWN had been the Postmaster for six years, operating out of an office at Cross, when it was discontinued on October 29, 1879. He was appointed as Kellerton's first Postmater, his commission dated November 24, 1879 which was signed by D. M. KEY, the Postmaster General under President Rutherford B. HAYES. The Post Office was located in the BROWN residence on Decatur Street.

J. W. KENDALL, editor of the Kellerton Mentor, was appointed as Kellerton's Postmaster on November 18, 1881. The Post Office was moved to the Mentor office.

Throughout the next few years, the Post Office was housed in various buildings in the business section of Kellerton.

Smiley B. HEDGES, Kellerton's Postmaster at the time, bought the brick building which had fomerly been the Ringgold County Savings Bank, on December 25, 1931. Kellerton's Post Office was moved into this building in January of 1932, and was dedicated in the Fall of 1961. This building is still Kellerton's Post Office.

KELLERTON'S POSTMASTERS

    POSTMASTERS     DATE APPOINTED
    Fred A. BROWN     Estb. 29 Oct 1879
    J. W. KENDALL     18 Nov 1881
    Charles W. PRINDLE     19 Jul 1882
    E. M. CARPENTER     04 Jan 1883
    Frank C. SMITH     02 Nov 1883
    Thomas M. STRUTHERS     31 Aug 1889
    Charles E. ADAMS     10 Feb 1892
    Louis F. NIECE     19 Apr 1893
    James H. HARRIS     22 Jan 1896
    Samuel M. LEE     17 Dec 1896
    Clarence E. TEALE     03 Dec 1900
    Charles E. ADAMS     27 Aug 1903
    William L. GUSTIN     02 Jun 1904
    John S. MOON     31 Jul 1913
    Smiley B. HEDGES      08 Feb 1923
    Wallace W. FARMER     22 Aug 1935
    Helen H. ALLEN     Oct 1950
    Homer H. BEEDE     Aug 1952
    Lyle A. SPENCER     Jul 1953
    Ted J. DUFFIELD      May 1960
    James L. DAUGHTON     Mar 1961
    Sam K. MERRILL     Feb. 1965
    Brenda OSBORN BOLES     to 2012
    Dee EURITT     2012

 

SOURCE: Kellerton Centennial: 1879 - 1979

Submitted by Sharon R. Becker, 2009


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