Everett Post Office Contributed and transcribed by Cousin Don Henkle. ------------------------------------------------------------------- KSGENWEB INTERNET GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY COPYRIGHT NOTICE: In keeping with the KSGenWeb policy of providing free information on the Internet, this data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other gain. Copying of the files within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged. Any other use, including publication, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission by electronic, mechanical, or other means requires the written approval of the file's author. -------------------------------------------------------------- EVERETT Post Office When the postoffice of Millers Grove was discontinued on 02 June 1873, it was taken over by Rueben F. Repass and given the name of Everett. Evidently Repass moved onto the A,B, Miller homestead, but we found no record of that. This was what is known as the Harry Driskill farm. Repass kept the postoffice from 02 June 1873, when it was taken over by James H. McRay on 18 September 1874. The home of the McRays was about two miles west of this in section 32. James McRay was postmaster until 04 January 1878, when it was taken over by Mrs. Julia A. McRay. On 22 May 1878 Terrance M, McSpirit took over as postmaster and moved the office back to his farm on Cherry Creek near where it had started. McSpirit evidently sold his farm to a man named Eaten. The postoffice however, was moved up the road a halfmile in the southwest quarter of section 27 (The Fred Adams farm) to the home of Edward Lynch who kept the office from 26 January 1880 until 27 February 1880 when it was discontinued and papers were sent to Yates Center. However, on 13 April 1880 it was re-established in the-Eaten home with James M, Eaten as postmaster. Eaten kept the postoffice until 08 January 1884 when the postmaster was Peter M. Cook. Only a month later on 07 February 1884, James B. Wiley became postmaster and kept it until 26 October 1885, when it was moved to the home of Alexander Hamilton on Cherry Creek. Hamilton kept the postoffice in his home until the postoffice was moved a mile and a half north and a half mile east to the new village of Vernon. In 1882 mail went by stage daily to Neosho and Yates Center.