Possibility (unofficiallly) the fourth postmaster of Walkerton VA beginning 1819. His commission was signed by President James Monroe. Mr. Muire, for a time a methodist minister, was cordially disliked by all his neighborsk and had a brief tenure of not over a year. He acquired his home property through his wife. The Temple family had made it possible for Nancey (Ann) to buy this property, and thier opinion of Thacker Muire was not improved by his refusal to sell it back to them after her death. She, fourteen year older than her husband, was fify-eight when she married him and lived for only six months afterwards. 22