The Political Graveyard: Postmasters of Big Stone Gap, Virginia

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Postmasters of Big Stone Gap, Virginia

Postmasters at Big Stone Gap, 1856-1973 (may be incomplete!)
Elkanah Gilly 1856 Francis M. Wells 1867-70 John Gilly, Jr. 1870-78 James M. Flanary 1878-81 Chambers L. Bunting 1881 James B. Williams 1881-83 Matthias Kelley 1883-85 Isaac N. Kelly 1885-88 Joshua Mullins 1888 William B. Kilbourn 1888-89 John M. Goodloe 1889-93 W. C. Robinson 1893-97 John M. Goodloe 1897-1906 Winfield S. Rose 1906-14 Gordon E. Gilly 1914-23 Wiley Witt 1923-24 Hugh H. Slemp 1924-25 Hugh H. Slemp 1925-30 David A. Sergent 1930-34 Isaac C. Taylor 1934-35 Isaac C. Taylor 1935-42 James R. Taylor 1942-45 Mrs. Glessie L. Martin 1945-63 James Henderson Collier 1963-64 James Henderson Collier 1964-73

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