Hunt Co., TX - History: Celeste, Texas Postmasters
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         CELESTE POSTMASTERS:
    Celeste Postmasters have been:
    Edward D. Croft, November 26, 1886;
    William A. Nelson, February 26, 1889;
    Ulysses Grant Roach, June 11, 1889;
    John J. Attebery, July 12, 1893;
    Frances B. Norris, November 22, 1894;
    Ulysses Grant Roach, March 10, 1898
    S. T. Blackwell, February 6, 1911;
    W. E. Thompson, February 11, 1914;
    Robert L. Jones, March 12, 1920;
    Nettie Duncan, August 16, 1935;
    Samuel M. Compton, March 4, 1937;
    Harbert S. Byers, September 30, 1961;
    Guy Shields, March 1, 1975;
    Sarah Roach Swindell, October 1, 1983;
    Bill Johnson,  1996.

    On February 2, 1903, the first rural mail carriers in Hunt County went out
from Celeste.  There was a picture of the 1920-1935 Celeste Post Office with
John Byers, Chilton Evans,  Aubrey Brown, and Postmaster Lewis Jones.
    Other Postal Career Celeste residents were clerk Theda Lacy, rural carrier
Carl Lacy, clerk Myrtle Stapleton (all retired),  clerk Paula Lanier, carrier
Robert Holloway, and carrier Bob Card.  (Undated clipping about 1986?)
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