Decatur Folks, A few may be interested in a Supreme Court Case of MO vs. IA ,165 US 118, where the State Line was in dispute. It focuses on the line running between the border town of Pleasanton and the border town of Lineville. There was a survey done in 1850 and then a court case in 1897. It also includes the words "a witnessed stone at the corner common to Wayne and Decatur counties, Iowa.". http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=165&invol=1 18 U.S. Supreme Court, Missouri vs. Iowa, 165 U.S. 118 (1897) I found it difficult to wade through the legal words and the survey terms, and I think most of the several names may be outsiders, however my gr-gr-grandfather FUGATE was the surveyor mentioned. He became the Mercer Co Surveyor in 1850. There was also a STOKES fence mentioned. Perhaps someone else with a background for reading things like that could fish out any other likely Decatur Co. names in that document. Elaine