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A visit back in time to Montpelier The following article about the Montpelier post office & store appearedin the Montpelier community newsletter in the December 10, 1941 editionof the Adair County News. At that time, according to the contributor of this article, the communitynewsletter was written by Mr. Jan Vetter "J.V." Dudley. "Two weeks ago, Mr. Dewey Collins bought the stock of goods of Mr. J.C.Reece at this place and is now operating the Montpelier store. Thisbusiness was established nearly one hundred years ago by the late CyrousWheat and has been successively owned and operated by Cyrous Wheat, thefirm of Wheat and Williams, Luther Williams, Ancel Coffey, C.C. Holt,and J.C. Reece and Sons. Mr. J.C. Reece has operated this store and hasbeen postmaster at this place since 1919. He is retiring on account ofill health. Mr. Reece is a good business man and has done a goodbusiness here." "Cyrous" (Cyrus) Wheat (1826-189 was the son of Samuel & Anna RippetoeWheat, whose farm lay athwart the Russell-Adair County line on thewaters of the "Cabbin fork of Russells creek," not too far south of thestore & post office. The "firm of Wheat and Williams" was the above-mentioned Cyrus Wheat andhis son-in-law, Rev. Z.T. Williams. Z.T. & his wife, Clemmie J. Wheat,were the parents of the Luther Williams mentioned. After Mr. Dewey Collins died about 1958, his wife, "Miss Willie," ranthe store and served as postmaster until failing health forced her toclose the doors in (I believe) the 1970s, whereupon the United StatesPostal Service discontinued the post office. In the excellent "An Adair County, Kentucky History," vol. 1, page 127,author Mike Watson stated that the Montpelier post office originally wasestablished in 1847, with George W. Miller as the first postmaster,followed by Robert C. Miller and then James Miller. The post office wasdiscontinued in 1856, then "...re-established on 2 September 1862 withAlbert M. Patterson postmaster," followed by the above-mentioned CyrusWheat in mid-1868. (Mike also noted another postmaster, Eula P. Holt,who served for most of 1919 and into January, 1920.) As late as the 1990s, the words "Sam Wheat" could still be easily readread on one of the window panes of the store building. According tolocal lore, young Samuel Reed "Sam" Wheat, Cyrus' late-in-life son byhis second wife, cut his name in the pane with the diamond Henry Burrisfound near the Russell-Adair County line in the summer of 1888. (Quitepossibly, someone else cut Sam's name in the glass, since he would havebeen only four or five years old at the time.) This story was posted on 2005-02-26 19:28:47
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