Point Post Office, Union Parish Louisiana

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


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Early Postmasters of Point Post Office, Union Parish Louisiana
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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. 

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POINT POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED:
    14 August 1891


HISTORY OF POINT POST OFFICE:
    Operational through 1930.    


POSTMASTERS:

Jessie P. Riley, 14 Aug 1891 - 16 Nov 1892 

Thomas J. Hinton, 17 Nov 1892 - 11 Sept 1893

Jesse P. Riley, 12 Sept 1893 - 20 Dec 1905

Littleton B. Carter, 21 Dec 1905 - 25 Dec 1918

James D. Aulds, 26 Dec 1918 - 1 July 1923        [James David Auld was murdered at his store on 6 April 1923.]

Ella Aulds, 2 July 1923 - 1 Apr 1926             [Widow of James David Aulds, Jr.]

Love A. Foster, 2 Apr 1926 - through 1930


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COMMENTS:

#1
Point is located in southern Union Parish, eight or nine miles northeast of Downsville in 
Sections 4 and 5, Township 19 North, Range 2 East. 

#2
Point Postmaster James David Auld (14 Oct 1893 – 6 Apr 1923) owned a store in Point and 
operated the post office in his store. On Friday, April 6, 1923, a man stopped and asked 
for some cigarettes or smoking tobacco. When Auld was in the process of getting the product, 
the man drew a revolver and fired two shots at Aulds, hitting him in the neck and chest and 
killing him instantly. The man then drove off and soon afterwards committed suicide. Auld's 
widow, Lydia Ella Day Auld, took over for him as postmistress and served for several years.


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