This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hunsaker, Burrows, McElroy, Needles, Watts Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1786 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 her notes: 1.--1843: (a). Daniel and Isaac Hunsaker probably came to Pleasant Grove in 1843, since Hunsakers' Ferry across the Nishnabotna was in operation in 1844. (b). Isaac Hunsaker removed to California many years before 1881--1881 Hist of Fremont county, page 511; page 447. 2.--1845: Hon. Alexander McElroy, Daniel Hunsaker, and Elijah Needles met on the 11th day of April 1845 and organized the County Court of Atchison county, Missouri.--Hist. of Holt and Atchison Counties, page 602. 3.--1845: Isaac Hunsaker appointed judge of election for Bluff township for August election.--Atchison County Court, June term, 1845. 4. 1845: Isaac Huntsaker was one of the first grand jurors for Atchison county, Sept. 1845.--Hist. of Holt and Atchison Counties, page __?__. 5.--Daniel Hunsaker appointed postmaster at Austin postoffice on Feb. 10, 1846.--Hamburg Reporter, Oct. 24, 1946, Section 9, page 67. 6.--1846: ORDERED that license be granted to Hunsacker and Watts to keep a ferry at their place on the Nishnabotna for one year.--Atchison County Court, April term, 1846. 7.--1848: (A Mr. Huntsucker is mentioned by Ruffus Burrows as one of the train in which the Hitchcock family emigrated to California in 1848.--SEE "Hitchcock".