MOUNT AIRY Post Office
Contributed and transcribed by Woodson County Commissioner Bill Linde.
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			MOUNT AIRY Post Office

	The third postoffice established in Woodson Co. was in the log cabin
home of Thomas Sears along a branch of North Owl Creek, four miles north & a
mile west of present Yates Center. Thomas Sears, his wife, Elizabeth, and 
five children came here from Linn County in 1857 and homesteaded the farm 
mentioned. Coming here at the same time was the Osborn Ewing family who 
settled the farm across the road to the north of the Sears home. Sears & 
Ewing are listed as the first settlers in Liberty twp.

	 On 19 June 1860 Sears established the postoffice he named Mount Airy. 
(We have also seen it spelled Mount Ariel). It was evidently named for a 
town by that name in North Carolina.
 
	 Three years later Sears resigned as postmaster -- on 20 June 1863.
 His son, William L. Sears was appointed as postmaster.

	 Thomas Sears sold his farm on Owl Creek in October, 1863, to Henry 
Yost and moved and improved a farm along Walnut Creek about six miles west 
of Toronto. William L. Sears was married to Mary Ewing. He kept the 
postoffice at Mount Airy until it was discontinued on 02 March 1864 and 
moved to Greenwood County  near his father. In August, 1868, William L. 
Sears established the postoffice of Fame, southeast of Neal, Ks. The Thomas 
Sears and William Sears families are all buried in the Rockyford Cemetery, 
just southeast of Neal, Kansas.