This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Blair Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1477 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.--1847: Early settlers in Benton township included P. Blair came from Indiana in 1847.--Hist. of Fremont County, 1881, page 54. 2.--1850:--Member of the Grand Jury, first District Court, 1850.--Hist. Atlas of Iowa, page 423. 3.--1850 Federal Census for Fremont county: Beverly Blar...57...b. Virginia Eleanor.........48........Virginia John.............15.........Indiana Robert...........11........Indiana 4.--1851: Ordered to serve as Grand Juror at next term of Dist. Court.--Minutes, April 8, 1851. 5.--1851: Beverly Blair was a member of the Grand Jury for May 1851 term of District Court held at Austin.--Lingenfelter, page 11. 6.--1852 Fremont county Census, "Fulton township". B. Blair...4m...1f...1 alien 7.--1854 Fremont county Census, "Fulton township". Beverly Blair....3m...2f...1 voter...1 militia...no aliens. 8.--1856 Iowa State Census, "Benton Township". Beverly Blair....58....b. Virginia...6 years in state Elenor.............55........Virginia...6 John...............21.........Indiana...6 Robert............17.........Indiana....6