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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:

David Laughlin -- 1828
Holden Evans -- 1829
Andrew Woolley -- 1830
David S. Boyd -- 1833
David E. Davis -- 1834
John W. Suttle -- 1835
Edward H. Moore -- 1837
George Hollingsworth -- 1837                   
John Rucker -- 1839
Jesse S. Martin -- 1840
Wiley Rucker -- 1841
Samuel H. Cox -- 1842
Daniel Smotherman -- 1845
Clement T. Billingsley -- 1845
Thomas R. Brown -- 1847
Nathan peeples -- 1851
T. R. Brown -- 1853
Wile Foshee -- 1853
David E. Dunlap -- 1859
Redin D. Hicks -- 1859
William P. Bowline -- 1867
Charles Q. Ingrim -- 1867
John B. Webb -- 1867
John W. Jackson -- 1873
John B. Boykin -- 1872
Daniel J. Waterworth -- 1872
John M. Smith -- 1877
Noah W. Foshee - 1879
Mrs. Addie Foshee -- 1893
Robert H. Martin -- 1893
William F. Foshee -- 1897
Bryant C. Crawford -- 1904
Benjamin O. Glover -- 1905
Ralph Calloway -- 1908
C. N. Parnell -- 1914
Jake E. Wallace -- 1919
Bessie Hayes (Acting) -- 1936
Lucie L. Parnell -- 1936
Bessie N. Hayes -- 1941
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Source:  Chilton County and Her People, 1985 edition, pp 171-172