Albert B. Poston (Panola County)
State House: 1882-1883
Born: January 1855 in Mississippi
Died: 1902
Teacher, school administrator, and preacher. The 1880 state census documents him in Panola County, which he represented, but he lived in multiple places. In the 1890s, Poston lived in Kosciusko, where he was a school principal. Listed on the 1900 census in Okolona as a widower with five children. According to the Social Security application of one of his daughters, his wife’s name was Martha Randolph. On the 1880 census in Panola County, a school teacher named J. Poston is listed as the son-in-law of Willis and Mattie Randolph. Their daughter, Martha, is married and also a teacher. This is certainly Albert Poston, though I don’t know where the “J” mistake came from.
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