This post office seems to have had more than the usual number
of moves. It was first called Little Elk, because it was near
the mouth of Little Elk Creek. About 1888 Israel F. Eddy, the
postmaster, moved the office about a mile west and had the name
changed to Eddyville. Some four years later, the office was brought
back to it's original location and the name changed to Little
Elk. About 1893, it was moved again to Eddy's place and was continued
under the name Eddyville until1900, when it was moved back to
the mouth of Little Elk Creek, but it's name was not changed
and the office still goes by the name Eddyville. Israel Eddy
was a man of generous size and remarkable strength who, on more
than one occasion, seized brawlers by the neck and dunked them
into the horse trough. In 1908, at the wedding of a local young
lady, he appeared with a coonskin cap and ear trumpet and regaled
the assembly with the story of how he recovered from the flu
by drinking a swig of piano polish mistaken for his medicine.
Eddy died in 1911 at age 87.