Louter Post Office, Union Parish Louisiana

Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by T. D. Hudson, 8/2004


************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm
************************************************
 

=================================================================================
Early Postmasters of Louter Post Office, Union Parish Louisiana
=================================================================================

SOURCE:
Records of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832 – September 30, 1971, located in the 
National Archives, identifed as Record Group 28, Microfilm Publication M841, 
Reels #51 & 52. 

T. D. Hudson transcribed this information from the original records and donated 
it to the Union Parish Archives in August 2004. 

==================================================================================
 

LOUTER POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED:
    30 January 1901


HISTORY OF LOUTER POST OFFICE:
    discontinued 28 February 1915, with mail forwarded to Lillie


POSTMASTERS:

Henry N. Jones, 30 Jan 1901 - 7 May 1911 

Lafayette Brantley, 8 May 1911 - 26 May 1914 

Benjamin F. Tubb, 27 May 1914 - 27 Feb 1915


      [Office discontinued 28 Feb 1915, with mail forwarded to Lillie.]


==================================================================================

COMMENTS:

#1
Postal service records indicate that the Louter post office was located between the 
Lone Well Office that closed in 1884 and the Laran office that opened in 1916 after 
the Louter office was closed. If correct, the Louter office must have been in 
Section 16, Township 23 North, Range 1 West.

#2
Louter's last postmaster, Benjamin Franklin Tubb, opened the Laran Post Office the 
year after Louter was closed.


###########################################################