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Maplesville Post Office and Postmasters

Maplesville

A post office was established at Maplesville on March 27, 1828. It was discontinued on January 7, 1847; re-established on January 21, 1847; discontinued on October 9, 1866; re-established on February 19, 1867; discontinued on May 15, 1868; and re-established on January 25, 1870.

The post office was at old Maplesville, the stage coach town, two miles northeast of present Maplesville, until 1868 to 1870, when it was moved to the present intersection of Southern and M&O Railroads, now Maplesville.

Names of postmasters and dates of their appointment were:

PostmasterAppointment       Postmaster
David Laughlin 1828 William P. Bowline 1867
Holden Evans 1829 Charles Q. Ingrim 1867
Andrew Woolley 1830 John B. Webb 1867
David S. Boyd 1833 John W. Jackson 1873
David E. Davis 1834 John B. Boykin 1872
John W. Suttle 1835 Daniel J. Waterworth 1872
Edward H. Moore 1837 John M. Smith 1877
George Hollingsworth 1837 Noah W. Foshee 1879
John Rucker 1839 Mrs. Addie Foshee 1893
Jesse S. Martin 1840 Robert H. Martin 1893
Wiley Rucker 1841 William F. Foshee 1897
Samuel H. Cox 1842 Bryant C. Crawford 1904
Daniel Smotherman 1845 Benjamin O. Glover 1905
Clement T. Billingsley 1845 Ralph Calloway 1908
Thomas R. Brown 1847 C. N. Parnell 1914
Nathan Peeples 1851 Jake E. Wallace 1919
T. R. Brown 1853 Bessie Hayes (Acting) 1936
Wile Foshee 1853 Lucie L. Parnell 1936
David E. Dunlap 1859 Bessie N. Hayes 1941
Redin D. Hicks 1859
 

Source:  Chilton County and Her People, 1985 edition, pp 171-172