PATRIOT
Patriot was a post office in section 22 of Jones Township. It was established in 1861 as a replacement for the post office of Kings. No exact location has ever been determined for either Patriot or Kings. Patriot did appear on maps from the 1860s through 1886, although it is not known when the Patriot Post Office closed.
I found one list that said the post office was run by Horace E. Mintonye, and was southeast of the town of Thayer, but no source was found for that information. From other records, I did find that Mintonye enlisted as a soldier in the Civil War and served from November 1863 until January 1865. He died in 1879 in his buried in Maple Hill Cemetery, Osceola, Iowa.
Map of the state of Iowa, G. W. & C. B. Colton, New York, 1869. Right before the railroad was built as Creston and Thayer do not appear on the map and Patriot appears to be on the proposed railroad route.
Map of the state of Iowa, Julius Bien, New York, 1878. Now showing Creston and Thayer, and Patriot not located on the railroad line.
Map of the state of Iowa, G. W. & C. B. Colton, New York, 1886. Colton’s map was no doubt out of date when it was published. While Thayer, Creston, Cromwell and Kent were added to the map, none of the other towns, such as Union City, Philo and Patriot were dropped.
