Readers provide location of Hinds Creek Post Office Final Edition

On Feb. 3, John Rice Irwin, founder of the Museum of Appalachia, asked where was Hinds Creek Post Office? He knew it must be near Hinds Creek, but the creek runs nearly all the way across the county. John Allen, wagon maker; D.C. Baylers, photographer; J.B. Carden, justice of the peace; W.L. Carden,...

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Published inThe Knoxville news-sentinel
Main Author Brewer, Carson
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Knoxville, Tenn Gannett Media Corp 07.04.2002
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Irwin, John R
Overton, Joe
Stewart, Alex
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Summary:On Feb. 3, John Rice Irwin, founder of the Museum of Appalachia, asked where was Hinds Creek Post Office? He knew it must be near Hinds Creek, but the creek runs nearly all the way across the county. John Allen, wagon maker; D.C. Baylers, photographer; J.B. Carden, justice of the peace; W.L. Carden, physician; Rev. Amos Demarcus, Baptist; Rev. F.C. Lewellen, Baptist; R.N. Libbs, blacksmith; Rev. M.S. Moore, Baptist; [Joseph Overton], general store, grain and livestock; A.D. Owens, flour mill; L. Ray, gunsmith; and Wade and Dew, produce. (I wonder whether the blacksmith, "Libbs," shouldn't be "Hibbs.") You may recall John Rice telling me some months ago about someone giving him a balm of Gilead tree. And from that he went to balm of Gilead salve. He's back on that subject. Charlie Acuff, the best left-handed fiddler Union County ever produced, gave John Rice some of the salve. Charlie's aunt, Gladys West Raby, made it 50 years ago.