This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Boulware, Winkler Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1504 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).--1846: John Bowler (sic) to have license to keep ferry on the Missouri River opposite Ft. Kearney.--Atchison county Court, June term, 1846. N.B.: Records of Old Fort Kearney (now Nebraska City, Nebr.) make it very clear that John Boulware, indeed, was the ferry operator at that site.--W.F.) (2).--1850: John Boulware appointed supervisor of Road District #4.....ORDERED that John Boulware receive license for ferrying across the Missouri River opposite Old Fort Keanry for three years.--January 1, 1850.--Minutes. N.B.: For the first years after its organization in 1849, Fremont county had a three-member panel called the Board of Commissioners which governed its affairs. Mabel must be referring to the records of this panel. I know that she and Pauline Winkler rummaged around in the basement of the Court House at Sidney so that they might find county records prior to the time that all Iowa counties were ruled over by the County Judge system, beginning with Judge Greenwood in 1851.--W.F.) (3).--1852: Fremont county Census: "Fulton township". John Boulwar.....2m....1f (4).--1854: Fremont county Census: "Fulton township". John Boulware, Sr....1m...2f...1voter...no militia...no alien John B. Boulware, Jr...1m...1f...1 voter...1 militia...no alien George W. Boulware...1m...no f...1 voter...1 militia...no alien (5).--1856: No found in the Iowa State Census. N.B.: When Nebraska Territory was opened later in 1854 for settlement, John Boulware, Sr., crossed the river and founded the town and post office of Kearney City, Neb., but kept his farm on the Iowa side of the Missouri.....His youngest son, George W. Boulware laid out the town of Eastport, or as Nebraska City perferred to call it, East Nebraska City, in Fremont county. For about twenty years, Eastport occupied the Military Forest Reservation of Old Fort Kearney without authorization from the United States government. This was corrected by special legislation in the 1870's.--W.F.