Grayson County TXGenWeb

United States Post Office
Denison, Texas

The Denison Press
Friday, June 27, 1947
pg.8

....Later the post office was moved to Main and Burnett, and still later it was located at 301 W. Woodard street. All of the locations were in leased buildings. In 1912 the present federal building was completed and became the home of the postoffice, at Woodard and Rusk. The grounds around the building were landscaped by the Denison Garden Club.
A comparative study of receipts at the postoffice here over the past 13 years as released this week by Acting Postmaster J.R. Brown, shows that Denison's receipts have increased almost four-rold, jumping from $46,463.54 in 1933 to $116,511.98 in 1946.
By year since 1933 the figures total as follows:
1993 - $46,463.54
1940 - $75,777.27
1941 - $82,885.65
1942 - $96,888.10
1943 - $113,321.98
1944 - $129,889.32
1945 - $130,685.59
1946 - $116,511.98

Denison City Directory
1887-1888

Morris Alexander Crooks (1867 - 1918) was appointed substitute mail carrier
in July 1888. This picture with his delivery cart was likely taken in 1890s.
photo courtesy of Jeanne Baldridge

Denison Sunday Gazetteer
May 10, 1891

MAIL CARRIERS' RECORD
During April the mail carriers for the Denison postoffice made the following record, Carrier School making the highest score; the total number of pieces of mail delivered and collected by the entire force being 120,850:
Carrier No. 1 - H.M. Thompson, delivered 20,499 pieces; 4 errors.
Carrier No. 2 - W.C. Bridendolph; delivered 15, 355 pieces, 2 errors
Carrier No. 3 - Morris Crooks; delivered 11,689 pieces, 2 errors.
Carrier No. 4 - Roy Case; devlivered 22,295 pieces, 5 errors.
Carrier No. 5 - C.R. Scholl; delivered 5,328 pieces; no errors.

1898-1899

1899-1900

Saunders House
c1905
Man, pulling his boys behind him on a sled, gives Johnny Williams, the postman, a ride.
Photographer : Jack Hendricks

Grayson County Collection
Frontier Village

The 1887 City Directory lists William "Sanders" as a salesman for Waples, Platter & Co. He lived at 417 W. Woodard. In the 1890s he went into business for himself as a produce commission agent. He and Frances moved to 511 W. Gandy, where they were living at the time of his death in 1899. William, according to family members, changed his surname from "Saunders" to "Sanders" after he grew up. By 1907 Frances and Edna had become the "Saunders" again.
The 1891 Bird's Eye Map and 1897 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map show 600 W. Gandy (corner of Mirick & Gandy streets) a vacant lot.
Frances "Frankie" and her daughters moved to 600 W. Gandy sometime after 1901. The 1903 Sanborn Fire Map shows a house with the configuration matching the one in the above photograph. The 1907 City Directory lists the owner as Frances Ritchey Saunders (1854 - 1928), widow of William, who died in 1899. Frances operated a millinery shop at 420 W. Main St. Her daughter, Frances Edna (1887 - 1949), married Dr. Arthur Freels (1863 - 1925) in 1911.