Birkville Post Office was established 19 May 1897 and discontinued 20 Jan 1904. The first postmaster was William A. Birkholz. William A. Birkholz was the son of Grant township pioneers, John F. and Wilhelmina Roeder Birkholz. He was married to Martha Suhr and they had one son, Ezra. Both William and Ezra were both blacksmiths. Ezra rented his blacksmith shop in Edmond, and left for Colorado about August 1920. I would like to contact descendants of this family, if there are any out there. According to the D.N. Bowers book, Seventy Years in Norton County, Kansas: "The Birkville M.E. Church was located on the southwest quarter of Sec 9, Tpw 3 S, Range 21 W, two miles south of the junction of K-60 with US 36. J. R. Thompson and M. B. Thompson, his wife, deeded to: A. Altman, C. W. Bisbee, S. Work, G. L. Barr, D. A. Morgan, J. R. Thompson and M. B. Thompson, trustees of the Mt. Olive M. E. Church, the land where the church was built. The church was destroyed by fire in the Spring of 1918. The Birkville Townsite was located across the section line south on Sec 16, Twp 3 S, Range 21 West. At one time Birkville consisted of a store, post office, feed mill, blacksmith shop, church and parsonage. The church and parsonage burned and the other buildings have been moved away. The church burned in 1918 and the store closed about 1920."