Rocheport, Missouri RFD patrons' names book

Lou Slade · 1900s-1950s

Post Office Department form 1564 was issued to postmasters with the instruction that: "This book is for the use of postmasters at Rural Free-Delivery Offices to enter the names of the patrons and to record changes of address." This single volume contains several pages listing names of the local patrons on mail routes served by the Rocheport Post Office in Boone County, Missouri. Pages of the account book were also used for personal records kept by two female postmasters in the early and mid-twentieth century. One or both of postmasters Lou Slade (1859-1938) and her daughter Mary Slade (1886-1956),who succeeded her mother as postmaster, handwrote recipes in this ledger and stored clippings from newspapers, magazines, and other forms of ephemera about home economics.