This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Frost, Cooper, Acord, Osborn Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1761 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--1841: Samuel Buchanan Frost lived in a cabin that had been built in 1841.--Walter Farwell N.B.: I don't remember giving Mabel this note, but the fact is possible! It is well known that Stephen Cooper had lived on "the Bluff Road" since about 1840 several miles on further north from where Frost settled in 1846. The oldest records report a "timber barrens" in this area, stemming from so much lumber having been taken for building purposes. Frost, though, called his neighborhood by the more familiar name of "Nishnabotna Country": it was located where Cooper's Cut-off left the old Council Bluffs--St. Joseph road (which ran ATOP of the bluffs) so as to run along the much more level Old Iowa Indian Trail running along the foot of the Bluffs. Frost buried his wife in this neighborhood, even though the commissioners appointed to locate a county seat, eventually chose the Sidney site, and in spite of the fact that Frost served in the courthouse.--W.F. 2.--1846: Was an elder in the Church of Latter Day Saints. 3.--1850: Federal Census for Fremont county, Iowa S.B. Frost....40....N.C. Rebecca......29....Tenn. Mary............14....Ill. Sarah...........12....Ill Nancy..........10....Ill Hester...........4....Iowa Samuel..........1...Iowa T. J. Osborn..21...Ind. 4.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Franklin township" S.B. Frost....2m....4f 5.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Franklin township" Samuel B. Frost....4m....5f...1 voter....1 militia...no aliens 6.--1855: Abraham Acord and Nancy Frost, both of Fremont county, IOwa, were married March 23, 1855 by A.S. Noblett, J.P., in Atchison county, Missouri. 7.--1856: Iowa State Census, FRemont county, "Sidney township" S.B. Frost...........46....b. N.C......10 years in the State Rebecca.............35........Tenn.....10 Sarah..................18........Ill..........10 Hetta...................11.......Ill..........10 S.B., Jr.................7.......Iowa........7 James Mc. Frost....3....Iowa..........3 John McFrost.........1....Iowa..........1 8.--1859: Valentine F. Acord and Sarah Frost were married on Jan. 20, 1859, by Cornelius Brackney, J.P.. Both of Fremont county.--Atchison county, Missouri, Marriage Book "A", page 136.