Hello all.... I'm up late tonight.... freezing rain has been falling for quite a while and the wind has picked up... I can here cracking outside... hope it's not trees or electric lines! Muriel gets the prize for the night for extra deep digging. SHe sent the following message: --------------------------- THere was a COLBERT in Lincoln County, P.O. according to the following URL: http://www.livgenmi.com/atkscl.htm --------------------------- Of course if I'd checked the list of post offices on the LIncoln County site itself <sigh!> I would have seen it: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/lincpo.htm COLBERT Established: January 19, 1889 Discontinued: November 30, 1904 Named changed: First appointee: George H. Jeffers Also if you look on the artsy 1897 map of LIncoln COunty you'll see it at the bottom: http://www.cjnetworks.com/~wrs/1897map.jpg Thanks again, Muriel. Bill & Diana Sowers 1746 Fairmont Rd, Topeka, KS 66604 - wrs@cjnetworks.com Lincoln Co KSGenWeb: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Gove Co KSGenWeb: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html Graham Co KSGenWeb: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html Allen Co KS ALHN: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ks/county/allen/index.html Barton Co KS ALHN: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/ Barton Co KSGenWeb: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/barton/index.html