Mail Carriers through the years.

Here is a short list of mail carriers through out the years.  There will be no other information on these names.  This list is to help you learn something about your ancestor you never knew.
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John Heaps was a carrier for Baltimore, he was murdered March 24, 18--, by ruffians and his mail taken.

Jonah H. Webb, carried mail from Athens, Georgia to New Orleans on rout he was shot in the Creek Nation in 1805.

Samuel Gordon, of Schenctady New York, was employd as a driver of a mail stage, on March 2, 1804, between Albeny and Schenctady, he was overtaken by a violent snow storm.  The storm prevented the passage of the mail stage.  So he took it on his back and carried it to the post office.  Because of the cold and the violent storm, he lost his eye sight.

1828, A petition of inhabitants of Harrodsburg, in the State of Kentucky, praying that provision may be made for the relief of the widow and children of Gabriel Alexander, who was drowned near that place, while in the discharge of his duty as a mail carrier.

1863, The petition of Captain John Mullen, United States army, praying to be relieved from all responsibility concerning a draft drawn by him on the assistant treasurer at New York in favor of Lieutenant Robert Macfeely, and alleged to have been stolen from the mail by John L. Carr, a mail-carrier, in February, 1860.

1857, A petition of citizens of Halifax county, North Carolina, praying that Jesse Butts may be allowed a pension in consideration of his long and faithful services as a mail carrier. 

1864, The petition of Peter Nicol, mail carrier, praying for increased pay. 

1869, The petition of William P. Lowrey, of Kingston, Tennessee praying for compensation for services as mail carrier in the summer of 1861.

1852, The petition of Panchita Garcias, widow of Joseph Garcias, praying relief and indemnity on account of the murder of her husband in the service of the United States, as mail carrier.

1840, A petition of Panchita Gracias, widow of Joseph Gracias, a mail-carrier, who was murdered on the 15th day of February, 1840, while carrying the mail between Peblo and St. Augustine, East Florida, by Indians, who captured and carried away a pair of horses and harness, a gun and two pistols, and sundry other articles belonging to her husband, praying remuneration therefor; and also, that a small annuity may be granted her.

1868, The petition of citizens of Missouri, praying the allowance of a pension to Mary Potter, widow of Ephraim Potter, a mail carrier, murdered by guerillas September 5, 1861.

1842, The petition of Panchita Garcias, widow of Joseph Garcias, praying relief and indemnity on account of the murder of her husband in the service of the United States, as mail carrier.

1864, The petition of Peter Nicol, mail carrier, praying for increased pay. 

List of citizen prisoner in custody March 15, 1862, in the Department of Western Virginia.

Apperson, William. Randolph County, Va. . Rebel mail carrier.
Coberly, Bushrod. . Pendleton County, Va. . Rebel mail carrier.
Dering, George M. . Hampshire County, Va. . Rebel mail carrier.
Myers, Daniel M. . Tucker County, Va. . Rebel mail carrier and horse-thief.
Philips, Samuel H. . Tuckner County, Va. . Rebel mail carrier; horse-thief.