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Mike Watson shares the History of Casey Creek Post Office Historian Mike Watson sends this wonderful History of Casey Creek Post Office written by Mr. M.V. Wolford, the oldest rural letter carrier in Adair County when he retired from service at the Casey Creek post office on July 31, 1957. He had spent nearly thirty years carrying the mail. After such an active life, Mr. Wolford found it difficult to just 'loaf' and decided to write about his many experiences and tell something of the postal history of the Casey Creek Post Office. He chronicled his experiences in columns for the Adair County News, beginning 4 December 1957. "Brief History of Casey Creek Post Office and R.F.D. Services in Adair County" by Mr. M.V. Wolford, 1957 The oldest rural letter carrier in Adair County retired from service on July 31, 1957 from Casey Creek Post Office, after 29 years, five months and fourteen days service in which he had traveled approximately 211,000 miles delivering mail during cold or hot days, rain, sleet, snow, mud, high waters and what have you. I have delayed writing this due to an eye operation I had July 15, 1957 and have not fully recovered yet. I shall give a little history of the Post Office at Casey Creek, Ky., which is located on Casey Creek and in the Roley community. The Roley Village has never been a post office, but has confused a lot of people due to the fact that it is Roley voting precinct, was Roley school until it was consolidated, and is Roley Church and Roley Cemetery. Casey Creek Post Office is one of the oldest post offices in the County, having been established on the bank of Casey Creek and McClure's Fork of Casey Creek and approximately one mile from where it is now located in the Village of Roley, where it has been located for over 100 years. --Adair County News, 4 December 1957, pp 1, 12 The residence where J.C. Abell now lives is the original building, I am told, that the post office was first established on March 4, 1852, making it one of the oldest post offices in the County. Robert B. Ferrell was the first postmaster. He served until June 19, 1852, when William Riley Sanders, whose descendants still live in this community, became postmaster, and his grandson J.C. Abell has the original commission well preserved in a frame. William R. Sanders was a very good business man, conducting a store and post office in the same house, with mail coming from Campbellsville about two trips per week, according to the late Mrs. Sally Underwood, who told me in 1915 that she worked in the post office in Campbellsville, [and] when the post office [Casey Creek] was young some mail was addressed to 'Roley Holey near Casey Creek.' Mr. Sanders held the office until September 15, 1868, when he was replaced by James W. Beard, a prominent school teacher and Christian of this community whom I remember. He served from September 15, 1868 until November 30, 1868 and was replaced again by William R. Sanders, who served until October 19, 1870, when he was replaced by Richard M. McWhorter and the post office was moved to McWhorter's Mill about mile from its original location, according to the late J.T. Cunningham who gave me this information in 1917. --Adair County News, 11 December 1957, pp 1, 12 I feel like a pioneer in the Rural Free Deliver Service in this County since it was untried and little known about in this County in February 1928 when I started as Carrier. The post office at Speck was discontinued June 30, 1927, and I was teaching school in the Speck community at that time and saw the need for mail service in that and adjoining communities. Mr. Willis Hardin was the carrier from Elkhorn and his route passed the school where I taught. I asked him what steps to take and he graciously gave me all the information he had, and with this I started with a petition and got 75 signatures of patrons asking for the establishment of a rural route. All 75 were signed in one afternoon. Dr. Gabbert, who was postmaster at the time, had difficulty in writing because of a rheumatic hand and asked that I go on and do all the correspondence with the P.O. Department, which I did with his signature to all the correspondence. In about 40 days after we mailed the petitions in to the Department, we received notice that it was being considered. About November 15, 1927 we got notice that the service would be allowed with the starting date to be named at a later date. During December 1927, we received notice to be posted that a Civil Service Examination would be held at Campbellsville to full the position of Rural Carrier on the new route at Casey Creek, Ky. Also orders to have patrons erect mail boxes and to begin to have their mail directed to the Casey Creek post office as the new route would start February 17, 1928. I delivered 75 new mail boxes, which I had purchased from Mr. Steve Goode, merchant at Casey Creek, on special order. I delivered the boxes without any notification to the patrons that I was coming. The boxes cost $1.00 each and I collected for all but two that day. These two paid in a few days, and thus the people were all set for a new experience in mail deliver from the Casey Creek Post Office. --Adair County News, 25 December 1957, pp 1, 8 [Published one day early due to Christmas holiday] This story was posted on 2018-10-15 08:46:41
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