This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kennedy, Matthews Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1794 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Madison township" Louis Kennedy....4m...1f 2.--1853: Land entry for Lewis J. B. Kenedy, dated May 11, 1853 for lots 2, 3, 4 in section 26 township 67 range 41; AND, for lot 2 in section 27 township 67 range 42. 3.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Franklin township" Lewis Kennedy....30....b. Ind....7 years in the State Rhoda.................28........Ill......7 Lewis..................8..........MO...7 William E.............6.........MO....6 Elias S................3..........Iowa...3 Joseph................0..........Iowa....0 Job Matthews......28.........England....1 N.B.: This family lived in FRENCH VILLAGE--ssoo--beware before you generalize as to whom he probably is! You are in for a surprise.....Job Matthews figured prominently in the earliest days of Hamburg.