KINGSLAND – The U.S. Postal Service will be hosting a dedication ceremony officially renaming the Kingsland Post Office after native son and country music legend Johnny Cash at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 7, at the Kingsland School auditorium.
The event is free and open to the public.Public Law 118-237, approved by both houses of Congress and signed into law by former President Joe Biden early this year, designates the U.S. Postal Service facility at 80 First Street in Kingsland as the “Kingsland Johnny Cash Post Office.”Postcards and a special pictorial cancellation related to the naming of the Post Office will be available for purchase, according to Becky Hernandez of the U.S. Postal Service.
Cash held a concert at the post office that now bears his name on March 31, 1994. The concert was part of a ceremony dedicating the opening of what was then referred to as the new Kingsland Post Office.Representatives from the U.S. Postal Service and the office of Congressman Bruce Westerman will serve as dedicating officials.
In addition, State Sen. Ben Gilmore is expected to be at Saturday’s dedication as well as Cleveland County Judge Jimmy, Kingsland Mayor Karen Wiscaver and Rison Mayor Charles Roberts. Johnny “J.R.” Cash was born to Ray Cash and Carrie Rivers Cash on February 26, 1932, in the Cross Roads community about three miles north of Kingsland.
The family left Cleveland County when Johnny Cash was 3 to take part in a Depression-era Works Progress Administration and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration farming program at Dyess in northeast Arkansas.From humble beginnings, Cash grew up working in cotton fields with his family at Dyess. Cash joined the U.S. Air Force in 1950 and served in Germany for four years
