On February 16, 1982, George Wallace Post, 53, was shot to death at his farmhouse on Rock Road in Garfield Township, Michigan. A respected mail carrier, school board treasurer, and VFW commander, George’s body was found at the bottom of the basement stairs after someone used his own shotgun to kill him.

The killing was part of a larger attack later labeled the Rock Road massacre. The assailant, identified in reports as Robert Lee Haggart, went on to kill six other members of the Post family that day; the only survivor was a one-year-old child found alive, apparently shielded by her mother’s body. Haggart fled the state and was arrested two days later in Jasper, Tennessee.

At trial, moved to Midland County because of publicity, jurors heard eyewitness testimony placing Haggart at the farm, ballistics linking a bullet from the scene to a gun found on him, and blood evidence on clothing in the Tennessee apartment. In October 1982 he was convicted on six counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder and received seven life sentences. Does anyone have information about George Post’s life in Farwell or memories of the community after this crime?