Wheat Post Office History

The first record of a Post Office at Wheat, Texas was 1898 when Minerva Thomas was appointed postmaster on Oct. 1. The little community's name came about because of a bumper crop of wheat produced on the Polnac farm. The people used the name of "Wheat" when applying for a Post Office and it was accepted.

The Wheat school was located in the southeast corner of the Polnac place, now known as the James Davidson place. A store occupied the site of the present Davidson house. Wheat also boasted a post office and store, and a gin.

A registry receipt from old postal records, dated Jan. 21, 1902, showed G.W. McCall as postmaster at that date. He was still postmaster when Wheat picked up and moved to the newly surveyed townsite of Hermleigh (1907) to be near the proposed Roscoe, Snyder and Pacific Railroad. McCall served nearly a year as postmaster at Hermleigh; he was followed by Annie Miller, later Mrs. Earl Stevenson, who taught in the Hermleigh schools.

Roy Coston came to the community in 1890 and has remained a citizen in constant residence since that time. He was one year old when he came with his parents.

The first school in the community was at Browning, across from the Pyron Cemetery (about 1890), later it moved to Wheat. The First Baptist Church was organized and met in the Browning School; later at Wheat; and still later it moved to Hermleigh.