POSTMASTERS AND BUSINESSMEN AT MARTZ (MIDDLEBURY)

     “The postmasters at Martz (Middlebury) have been George Jett, Absalom Briley, James Moody, Jacob J. Baker, Melancthon Stull, John W. Sutton, Frank Brothers, J. B. Collins, and James F. Lankford.  On the first of May, 1907 after a period of fifty-three years, the office was discontinued, supplanted by rural delivery routes number 2 and 5 out from Clay City.  During the extended length of time for which James Moody held the office, about twenty years, the mails were handled by a number of deputies, of whom may be named Jacob J. Baker, Eli Cooprider, William H. Long, John Fair, Smith Auld, O.P. Strother, G. W. Ellenberger.

    An enumeration in full of all who engaged in business at this place would be an extended list, of whom are named from recollection the following:  John Brush, Jacob J. Baker, Jacob Cofer, Joel H. Buckallew, Vinyard Church, Kress & Cooprider, William H. Long, Long & White, Smith & Harris, Watts Brothers, Philip Farris, Long & Son, Daniel Reed, H.O. Duncan & Son, James H. Witty, Kress  & Horton, Henry Clymer, J.W. Danhour, Hale & Williams, Givens and Dial, Storm and Cook, Everhart & Caton, John Fair, Smith Auld, N. A. Harris, John W. Sutton, Everhart & Strother, Thomas Winters, Frank & William Brothers, Charles Rogerson, M. Stull, F. M. Hale, James F. Lankford, Greenville Owens, S. G. Brandenburg. “Pg. 167; Travis, Vol. 1

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