Bath Post Office
Contributed and transcribed by Cousin Don Henkle.
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			History of Bath Post Office

	On 09 July 1861, a post office was established in a log cabin along 
Owl Creek, six miles east and one & one-half miles south of Yates Center, 
by Peter Yohon.
 	Peter Yohon, with his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Chris Yohon, had come 
to Woodson County in either 1857 or 1859 and were among the first to settle 
along that part of Owl Creek. In November 1861, Peter Yohon was elected as 
County Clerk of Woodson Co. This evidently did not interfere with the post 
office until he resigned and it was taken  to the home of Christopher Faler, 
who kept the post office of Bath at his home from 02 July 1867 until 09 
March 1868.
 	At the death of Christopher Faler, his wife, Elizabeth Faler, became 
postmaster on 09 July 1868 and kept it until it was discontinued and moved 
to Chellis on 15 July 1869.
 
 The post office of Bath had received its name from Bath, New York.