This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clapper Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1575 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.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa Jacob Clapper....43....b. PA Barbara..............38.......PA Henry W.............17.......Ohio 2.--1852: Fremont county census: He is not shown. 3.--1854: Fremont county Census; "Scott township" Jacob Clapper.....2m...1 f....2 voters....2 militia....no aliens 4.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Scott township" Jacob Clapper....48.....b. PA....9 years in state Barbary..............43........PA....9 Henry W............23.........OH...9