This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Bonwell, Rector, Collins, Sanders, Hinsdale Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1502 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 Mable's notes: (1).--1850: Federal Census for Fremont county, Iowa: Bordwin Bonwell....61....b. Va. Charlotte...............49........Ky. Augustus C...........25........Ohio Emeline.................20.......Ohio Ermina..................19........Ohio Martha...................17........Indiana Alfred.....................10........Indiana George....................8........Indiana (2).--1850: Augustus C. Bonwell, 26, married Eliza F. Brubeb, 20, at her father's house in Fremont county on Nov. 14, 1850. (3).--1852: Fremont county Census: "Franklin township" B.R. Bonwell.....4m....4f (4).--1852: Marriage license issued to Armina M. Bonwell and William Rector of June 21, 1852.--Judge Greenwood record. (5).--1853: Augustus C. Bonwell made a land entry for NW quarter of Sec. 9 Township 68 Range 42 on Sept. 5, 1853. (6).--1854: Fremont county Census: "Franklin township: Charlotte Bonwell....4m....2f....1 voter...1 militia...no aliens (7).--1856 Iowa State Census, "Fremont county" A.C. Bonwell........29.....Ohio....6 years in Iowa Charlotte..............54.....Ky......6..........................Widow Elizabeth Collins...57.....Ky......5 Emeline Bonwell...23......Oh.....6 Martha A..............20.....Oh......6 William T..............18.....Ind......6 Alfred...................16.....Ind......6 George.................14.....Ind......6 William Sanders....23.....Mich...2 Barney Hinsdale....33.....Ire.......2...........teacher