She was the youngest girl in her parent's family and came west with the family from Pennsylvania. She married a young man named Jay Posson in 1888.
Jay had been here in the west for two of three years and had just "bought out" a homesteader who had not been able to meet his obiglation on a Relinguishment and that became the Posson place and is now owned by young Ray Cigax.
It was there that Jay and Ollie Posson raised their family of six children. Jay and Olie still lived there until Jay became associated with the Hayes Center Bank in 1913.
In his advanced years her father, Hiram Snyder, could no longer handle the Post Office and a few years after the death of her mother she became Post Master and the office was moved to the Posson place where it was housed for a number of years.
The Eureka post office, as did many other small rural Post Offices of that time, extended its usefulness over a large community by "Rural Routes" and "Mail Carriers". The route through Eureka extended for many years from the Galena area on the Northwest and to Hayes Center and return, two or three trips each week.
Jay had been here in the west for two of three years and had just "bought out" a homesteader who had not been able to meet his obiglation on a Relinguishment and that became the Posson place and is now owned by young Ray Cigax.
It was there that Jay and Ollie Posson raised their family of six children. Jay and Olie still lived there until Jay became associated with the Hayes Center Bank in 1913.
In his advanced years her father, Hiram Snyder, could no longer handle the Post Office and a few years after the death of her mother she became Post Master and the office was moved to the Posson place where it was housed for a number of years.
The Eureka post office, as did many other small rural Post Offices of that time, extended its usefulness over a large community by "Rural Routes" and "Mail Carriers". The route through Eureka extended for many years from the Galena area on the Northwest and to Hayes Center and return, two or three trips each week.
She was the youngest girl in her parent's family and came west with the family from Pennsylvania. She married a young man named Jay Posson in 1888.
Jay had been here in the west for two of three years and had just "bought out" a homesteader who had not been able to meet his obiglation on a Relinguishment and that became the Posson place and is now owned by young Ray Cigax.
It was there that Jay and Ollie Posson raised their family of six children. Jay and Olie still lived there until Jay became associated with the Hayes Center Bank in 1913.
In his advanced years her father, Hiram Snyder, could no longer handle the Post Office and a few years after the death of her mother she became Post Master and the office was moved to the Posson place where it was housed for a number of years.
The Eureka post office, as did many other small rural Post Offices of that time, extended its usefulness over a large community by "Rural Routes" and "Mail Carriers". The route through Eureka extended for many years from the Galena area on the Northwest and to Hayes Center and return, two or three trips each week.
Jay had been here in the west for two of three years and had just "bought out" a homesteader who had not been able to meet his obiglation on a Relinguishment and that became the Posson place and is now owned by young Ray Cigax.
It was there that Jay and Ollie Posson raised their family of six children. Jay and Olie still lived there until Jay became associated with the Hayes Center Bank in 1913.
In his advanced years her father, Hiram Snyder, could no longer handle the Post Office and a few years after the death of her mother she became Post Master and the office was moved to the Posson place where it was housed for a number of years.
The Eureka post office, as did many other small rural Post Offices of that time, extended its usefulness over a large community by "Rural Routes" and "Mail Carriers". The route through Eureka extended for many years from the Galena area on the Northwest and to Hayes Center and return, two or three trips each week.
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