 In addition to a post office, the building also served the town as a doctor’s office, with Wiley Payne Allred, a former bodyguard of Joseph Smith’s, using his in-laws post office as a place to set broken limbs, extract teeth and apply herbal remedies.After a few years of stock raising and farming the settlers could see there was not enough farmland along the creek.Larger tracts of land lay several miles south of Muddy Creek suitable for dry farming.