This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fugitt, McKissick, Farmer, Winkler Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1762 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.--FUGITT: Hiram Fugitt, born in Kentucky in 1796; of French extraction; moved into the Platte Purchase in 1822. His children were raised in Clay county, Missouri.--(Mabel Bridges). 2.--1847: Townsend T. Fugitt married Cornelius McKissick's sister Eliza and settled in McKissick's Grove in 1847.--Reporter. 3.--1848: Townsend Fugitt came to Fremont county in 1848; secured a claim of government land. Married Eliza McKissick of McKissick's Grove.--Historical Atlas of Fremont - Mills, page 313. (N.B.: Mabel's citation in puzzling: The date of the Historical Atlas is 1875, but does not necessarily include Mills county in its account. There is a historical and biographical account of Fremont and Mills, dating about the turn of the last century. This last is NOT an atlas. Which did she have in mind?--W.F.) 4.--1849: Townsend Fuggitt and Eliza McKissick were married April 29, 1849 in Polk township, by Thomas Farmer, J.P. (N.B.: When it was a part of Atchison county, Missouri, that part of the southern half of Fremont county which laid EAST of the Nishnabotna river was known as "Polk township". The WESTERN part was called "Bluff township".--W.F.) 5.--1850: Federal Census of Fremont county, Iowa Townsend Fugitt....27....b. MO Eliza A.................22........MO Nancy...................2.........Iowa Henry..................5/12......Iowa 6.--1851: ORDERED to serve as petit juror at the second term of District Court.--Minutes, April 8, 1851. (This is another record which makes it obvious that Mabel and her cousin Pauline Winkler had found the records of the County Commissioners while they were looking around in the basement of the court house.--W. F.) 7.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Madison township" T. Fugitt....2m....3f 8.--1853: Land entry made at Council Bluffs on May 23, 1853 for the northwest quarter of section 29 township 67 range 41.--Courthouse Records. 9.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Madison township" T.F. Fugitt....2m....3f....1 voter...1 militia....no aliens 10.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Madison township" Townsend Fugitt....33.....b. MO.....10 years in the State Eliza.....................28........MO......10 Nancy....................8.........Iowa Helvey C................6.........Iowa Elizabeth...............4.........Iowa William B..............2......... .Iowa Sarah.................1/12........Iowa