Post Offices in the Fifth Ward, Livingston Parish, Louisiana
Postmasters
File prepared by D.N. Pardue




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From the French Settlement Historical Register, published by the French Settlement
Historical Society, French Settlement, Louisiana 70733. The LaGenWeb Archives thanks 
them for contributing this information.

Vol. 2, December 1977

NAME OF POST OFFICE   REMARKS         NAME OF POSTMASTERS      DATES

Bourgeois Landing     Established     John A. Porter           Sept. 22, 1875
                      Discontinued                             April 11, 1878

Denson                Established     Callie D. Moore          June  08, 1903
                      Discontinued                             April 30, 1914
                      Reestablished   J.A. Bencaz              June  21, 1915
                      Discontinued                             Aug.  15, 1916
                      Mail to Maurepas

Head of Island        Established     John Hougham             July  25, 1878
                                      Sally Ann Pyburn         Dec.  30, 1897
                                      Henry B. Berthelot       Feb.  06, 1909
                                      Augustare T. Berthelot   Nov.  18, 1910
                                      August Deutsch           Feb.  08, 1917
                                      Mrs. Edna D. Anderson    Mar.  12, 1941
                      Discontinued                             April 30, 1950
                      Modified to Mail to Springfield          May   31, 1954

Maurepas              Established     John H. Ellis            June  09, 1875
                                      J.H. Bailey              Aug.  03, 1876
                      Discontinued                             Jan.  22, 1877
                      Reestablished   Robert Benefield         Feb.  26, 1877
                                      John O. Hutchinson       April 24, 1878
                                      Miss Hattie L. Dear      Sept. 03, 1879
                                      B.B. Cleneay             July  02, 1880
                                      Benj. B. Cleneany        Dec.  14, 1880
                                      Hardy Little             Jan.  07, 1886
                                      Lena Mascaline           May   28, 1887
                                      Lena Mascalena           June  14, 1887
                                      Cathrine Ernest          Aug.  04, 1892
                                      William C. Tschorn       Nov.  06, 1903
                                      Julia A. Cleaneay        Sept. 17, 1913
                                      Julia A. Kroll           May   07, 1914
                                      Emily J. Cleneay         July  11, 1914
                                      Miss Mamie A. Cleneay    Nov.  05, 1934
                                      Mrs. Julia A. Kroll      March 01, 1935
                                      Miss Mamie A. Cleaneay   May   04, 1935
                                      Mrs. Odelia B. Hoover    Sept. 01, 1964
                     Office still in existence.

Whitehall            Established      John A. Porter           July  25, 1878
                                      William Salles           Nov.  21, 1897
                                      Octave LeBourgeois       Aug.  15, 1888
                                      Agelle Dupuy             Aug.  27, 1925
                     Discontinued                              March 24, 1954
                     Modified to Mail to Springfield           May   31, 1954

Source:  Compiled by Clark Forrest, Jr., from Postal Records located in National Archives,
Washington, D.C., 20408, in Record Group on July 26, 1974.