This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Buckham, Burns, Means Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1525 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/189/1976), 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.--1849: Elected treasurer and collector at the first election in Fremont county.--1881 Hist. of Fremont county, page 372. 2.--1849: The bond of T. L. Buckham as treasurer and collector approved at the first meeting of the Fremont county Board of Commissioners, Sept. 10, 1849 ("Minutes"). 3.--1850: Federal Census for Fremont county: T.L. Buckham....33....b. Ky. Jane..................26.......Ind. Peter...................5......Iowa Mary....................4..... Iowa Charles Burns.......8......Iowa 4.--1851: Elected sheriff at the August election, 1851.--Lingenfelter, page 12. 5.--1852: Fremont county Census: "Franklin township". T.L. Buckham....3m....3f 6.--1853: Exempted from road poll tax, as not being able-bodied.--Greenwood Records, Dec. 20, 1853. 7.--1854: Fremont county Census: "Franklin township". Tilden L. Buckham...2m...3f...1 voter...no militia...no aliens 8.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Franklin township" Tilden L. Buckham....41....b. Ky....14 yrs in state Jane.........................34.......Ind....14 Peter R.....................11.......Iowa..11 Adaline.......................3.......Iowa.. 3 Nancy.........................0.......Iowa...0 William Means............22......Ind......1