CSA 5, 10¢ rose, tied neat blue PETERSBURG Va. AUG  21 on cover to Isaac Arledge, Sheriff, Hendersonville, Henderson Co., North Carolina / Via Raleigh N.C. and Columbia S.C. with docketing at upper left “Election Returns.”  $450.

Isaac Arledge was born in 1814 in the Green River Cove section of today’s Polk County, the son of Jonathan Arledge and Harriett McCormick Arledge. Polk County was formed in 1855 from Rutherford and Henderson counties. He was the husband of Rebecca Holbert. In the 1840s, he moved to the newly formed town of Hendersonville. He served as sheriff from 1852 to 1862. He ran for the office of sheriff again in the 1870s and some suggest he may have served again as sheriff from 1876 to 1878, but official documentation is lacking. He was a farmer and a mail contractor. He died in 1900. His burial site is at Oakdale Cemetery in Hendersonville.