Ed and Hannah Snyder and the Arbon rural mail route
Hannah Evans, a widowed Arbon homesteader, married Ed Snyder in 1915; by 1920 the Snyders were carrying the valley's rural mail, a route Ed's obituary says he held for 23 years.
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Hannah Evans, a widowed Arbon homesteader, married Ed Snyder in 1915; by 1920 the Snyders were carrying the valley's rural mail, a route Ed's obituary says he held for 23 years.
The papers follow the Arbon post office from D. J. Bowen's cabin through the Evans, Bailey, Leavitt and Keeler years to the summer of 1922, when it nearly closed.