Vet Mail Carrier Dies in Williamson
Charleston Daily Mail
Charleston, West Virginia
18 March 1953
WILLIAMSON -- Lewis Varney, 87, who carried the mail by horseback between Ragland and Logan before Mingo County was separated from Logan in 1895, died yesterday at the home of a daughter in Ragland.
Varney liked to recall that he made the 70-mile round trip three times a week and received $1.62 a day. Ragland is now in Mingo County.
He was the father of Wallace J. Varney, Williamson postmaster; Tom B. Varney of Matewan, a member of the Mingo school board; and Sidney L. Varney, ticket agent for the Norfolk and Western Railway here.
He also leaves three daughters.