Anchor source
1916 Andrew Poston naming notice
The strongest near-contemporary evidence connecting Andrew Poston to the railroad-era town name.
Open Record 09 →Core Primary-Source Evidence
The five strongest current records form the documentary core of the archive. Record 09 carries the greatest weight on the town-naming question; the later notices document twentieth-century family continuity.
Primary record 01
1916 Andrew Poston obituary
The strongest current naming evidence: a near-contemporary notice tying Andrew Poston to the railroad-era community called Poston.
Open record →Primary record 02
Ruth West & Harold Chalmers Poston marriage
A 1952 News and Courier report documenting the marriage and planned Florence residence.
Open record →Primary record 03
Ruth West Poston obituary
A 1976 News and Courier obituary identifying spouse and surviving children in the later family line.
Open record →Primary record 04
West–Poston marriage — The State
A second newspaper source from the 1952 marriage period; use the scan to verify wording.
Open record →Primary record 05
Moody–Poston marriage notice
A later Poston–Moody family record preserved as a scan; OCR currently captures only the headline.
Open record →For the evidence hierarchy, scope limits, and the records still needed, read Primary Sources for Andrew Poston and Poston, South Carolina →