The Heritage of Caswell County, North Carolina, Jeannine D. Whitlow, Editor (1985) at 78 ("Yanceyville Post Office" by Jeannine D. Whitlow):
The post office at Yanceyville was first called Caswell Courthouse or Caswell. The name was changed to Yancey, no date given, and finally to Yanceyville March 2, 1835 while Thomas Graves was postmaster.
As near as can be determined at this time, Thomas Bouldin, appointed March 8, 1798, was Yanceyville's first postmaster. Succeeding postmasters in order of their appointment dates are:
Henry Atkinson, March 17, 1800
Richard E. Matthews, January 23, 1802
Thomas Graves, May 10, 1804
Thomas Graves, April 22, 1819
Abner Miles, September 16, 1839
Edmund R. Fowler, February 10, 1854
William B. Graves, April 30, 1856
William Brown, June 13, 1856
Alexander McAlpin, October 5, 1867
(Mrs. Mary O. Kerr lists Lazarus Fels next with comment, Confederate period?)
M. V. Paylor, April 1, 1868 (shown on Mrs. Mary O. Kerr's research as Mrs. Mary B. Paylor)
Wilson Carey, August 21, 1869
Thomas J. Brown, November 23, 1869
James L. Roberts, December 9, 1872
Robert Bigelow, October 22, 1873
Thomas J. Brown, June 7, 1875
Allen Gunn, December 19, 1876
Felix Roan, June 22, 1881
Jerry [Jeremiah] Graves, November 12, 1884
Jeremiah Graves, November 19, 1884
W. H. Thompson, July 16, 1885
Jeremiah Graves, March 26, 1889
James B. Poteat, May 31, 1893
Eliza C. Kerr, December 26, 1894
Drury F. McKinney, January 8, 1898
Archie C. Lindsey, December 17, 1910
Henry W. Perry, April 15, 1914
Sallie W. G. [Willie Graves] Perry, May 2, 1916
Albert Y. Kerr, May 29, 1918
Addie Slade, March 2, 1923
Thomas J. Henderson, June 11, 1923
Thomas D. Boswell, May 8, 1933
Garnett C. Cooper, September 30, 1953
Hugh Dorsey Bradner, June 16, 1955
James R. Graves, Jr., October 1, 1983
[Fred A. Smith, January 9, 1993]
[Dinah L. Marshall (January 25, 2003 - July 31,2012)]
Sources: Arthur Hecht's Postal History of N.C. 1789-1795, Mrs. Mary O. Kerr's research from William S. Powell's book, When the Past Refused to Die, A History of Caswell County, 1777-1977, and research of James R. Graves, Jr., Postmaster, Yanceyville, N.C.
----- Jeanine D. Whitlow
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