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Wayne County Journal- Mar 7, 1907

Fred Johnson, Postmaster at Leeper, Dies of Heart Trouble

The little town of Leeper was shocked last Friday morning when the report 
was given out that the postmaster, Fred Johnson, who slept in a room just 
back of the post office was lying dead in his bed.

Mr. Johnson was up the evening before when passenger train No 1 went 
south and attended to the distribution of the mail, and while he had been on 
the puny list for a few days no one was expecting to find the deplorable 
condition that they did the following morning.  It is thought he died of heart
trouble.

Mr. Johnson had been postmaster at Leeper for about four years.  For a number 
of years prior to his coming to Leeper he was engaged in the business of farming 
in Greenwood Valley, where he raised a large and respectable family.  At the time 
of his death he was about 65 years old; was a member of the Masonic order, with 
his membership at Piedmont, and was one of our best and most highly respected 
citizens.

The condolement of his death is not confined to his relatives but to hundreds of
 friends, whose good fortune it was to meet and know him.