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From: Nelouise B. Gragg< >
Subject: Re: C.P. Clayton
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 19:17:11 -0800


Thanks, Julie. I knew that he had been Postmaster. I think it also had
another name...but its FINAL name, as I understand it, was FT. PAYNE, AL
I believe that I told you he also owned a railroad there. I think it went
from Montgomery...thru Ft. Payne...and on North. He sold it to the U.S.
Army. Part of the record is in the OLD "O" Book. The other part was in the
"O 1/2" book, which was missing, when I was last back there. They had no
idea where it was. I need to go back again. People there were very nice to
me. Cyrus Putnam Clayton was not liked after the war. He had sided with the
North and moved to the Chicago area and worked with Mr. Pullman of the
Pullman Sleeping Cars. When he returned to the South, he had lots of
problems. He was totally a super religious person. Mr. Pullman was, from
what I have read, not a good man. He was not good to the people, who worked
for him.

My mother was a TX Postmaster for 38 years. I was a TX Postmaster for
1-1/2 years. My stepfather was acting Postmaster for a few years.

Thank you for the news! Nelouise

>Found this tidbit in "Landmarks: A Pictorial History of DeKAlb, AL" p.
>139:
>Postmaster of Northland, CP Clayton, May 7, 1867. dismissed Sept. 15,
>1868. (Northland changed to Ft. Payne in 1869).
>
>Regards, Julie Clayton
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