This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Leeka, Groves, Benner, Study, King, Henderickson Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1805 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest Fremont county pioneers. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--1802: Born in Virginia in 1802. Came to Fremont county in 1848. Built the first mill in the county.--1881 Hist. of Fremont county, page 707. 2.--1850: Election for Henry township is to be held at John Lakey's.--Proceedings of the county commissioners, Jan. 9, 1850, cited in 1881 Hist. of Fremont county, pp. 375 - 6. 3.--1850: Member of the grand jury for the first district court in 1850.--Hist. Atlas of Iowa, page 423 4.--1850: ORDERED that elections for Henry township be held at John Leekey's--Minutes, July 1, 1850. 5.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa John Leeka....48....b.VA Sarah............44.......Tenn David.............21.......Ohio William..........19.......Ohio Carter............13........Ohio Samuel..........11.......Ohio Mary Ann.......8.........Ohio Jacob.............6.........Iowa 6.--1850: David Leeka, 21, married Mary E. Hendrixon, 16, on August 26, 1850, at her father's house.--Marriages. 7.--1851: ORDERED to serve as grand juror for next term of Dist. Court,--Minutes, April 8, 1851. 8.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Scott township" John Leeka....5m....2f 9.--1852: ORDERED to serve as petit juror at Oct. term of Dist. Court.--Greenwood, Sept. 2, 1852. 10.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Scott township" John Leeka....1m....2f....1 voter....1 militia....no aliens 11.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Scott township" John Leeka...........54......b. VA.......7 years in the State Sarah...................50..........Tenn....7 William.................25..........Ohio.....7 Samuel Groves......17..........Ohio....7 Mary A. Groves......14..........Ohio....7 Catherine Benner....24..........ILL......4 Francis M. Study....17..........MO......8 Charles King...........35........England..0