This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Calkins, Skidmore Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1541 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.--1846: Alvin Calkins was a member of the Mormon Battalion, MC 2, Co. C. Buried at Mt Olive cemetery; born Sept. 30, 1825. 2.--1850: Federal Census for Fremont county. Chauncey Calkins.....50....b. NY Sarah.......................46.......NY Alvah........................25.......NY James W..................22.......NY William R.................. 8.......ILL Miron B......................4.......ILL 3.--1852 Fremont county Census: "Madison township" Chauncey Calkins--NOT LISTED, BUT J.W. Calkins.....5m....1f 4.--1853: Land entry by Chauncey Calkins for the west half of the southeast quarter of section 25 township 67 range 42, dated Juily 12, 1853. 5.--1854: Alvin Calkins married Martha Skidmore on April 2, 1854; married by John Mullis.--Atlchison county, Missouri, Marriage Book "A", page 57. 6.--1854 Fremont county Census: "Madison township" Chauncey Calkins.....3m....1f...1voter...no militia...no alien Alva Calkins.....1m....1f....1 voter....l militia....no alien James C. Calkins....1m 2f....1 voter...1 militia....no alien 7.--1856 Iowa State Census: "Madison township" Chauncey L. Calkins....57....b. NY....7 years in Iowa Sarah.........................53........NY William.......................15........ILL Miron..........................10........ILL Alvia C........................31........NY Sarah..........................23........Tenn Sarah...........................1.........Iowa