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RODE TRAIN AS
FAR AS IT RAN,
BOARDED HORSE
CHILTON--SPL--H. W.
Flowers was the first postmaster in Chilton, after the railroad's coming made
daily mail a possiblilty. He was born in Crystal Springs, Miss., in 1853.
He is the first old settler who admitted
he rode a train as far as possible. He traveled by rail as far as Fort
Worth in 1874. There he bought a horse and saddle and rode to Jackson
County but he liked what he saw of Falls County as he rode through. He
taught school in Jackson County about two years, then in 1876 he came back to
this section and opened a general mercantile store and also served as postmaster
seven years. In 1885 he married Miss Sallie Masters of Masterville (later
named Bruceville). They moved to Chilton in 1886 where he opened a
general store on the street which parallels the railroad. He served as
postmaster from 1891 to 1898.
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