This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Fisher, Way, Sherman, Anderson, Cutler, Kimball, Fletcher, Pratt Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1732 Message Board Post: In 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.--Edward (sic) Fisher, after whom Fisher township was named, made the first settlement there at Fisher's Grove--a small grove along Fisher Creek.--1881 History of Fremont County, page 542. 2.--1853: Land entries for Edmund Fisher: (1).-- South half of the southeast quarter of section 2 township 67 range 40. (2).--North half of the northeast quarter of section 11 township 68 range 40. (3).--West half of the southeast quarter of section 36 township 69 range 40. All dated May 30, 1853. 3.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Madison township" Edmund Fisher....4 m....5 f...1 voter....no militia...no aliens 4.--1856: Iowa State Census, "Fisher township", Fremont county. Edmon Fisher........53....b. MASS....9 years in the State Cornelia J..............44........VT.........9 Lyman...................14........ILL Cena......................14.......ILL Eliza.......................8........Iowa Henry Way..............19.......IND........8 Pliny Fisher..............80.......MASS....9 Assenath Sherman....77....Mass....9 Henry Anderson........23.....OH.......3 Alpheus Cutler..........72......NH......4 Louis (m)..................67......NH......4 Abram Kimball..........10......ILL Isaac Kimball............9.......Indian Country Mary Fletcher..........6.......Iowa - Omahaw (?) Emily Pratt..............4.......Indian Country - Delaware N.B.: The "Alpheus Cutler" shown here must be the Mormon leader who had followed Fisher to Fremont county from Mills county, Iowa.....About this time, the Jesuits along the Missouri river were saying that the Mormons were preaching among the faithful Catholic halfbreeds, living with the various Indian tribes. I wonder if this is a corroboration of that activity? I I know some of the Wilmet's from among the Pottawattomie lived at Manti for a while.--Walter Farwell