This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Jones, Williams Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1788 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest pioneers of Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--1839 - 1840: David Jones and family settled at Pleasant Grove in 1839 - 1840.--Cowden; also 1881 Hist. of Fremont county, page 509. 2.--1845: David Jones appointed judge of election for Bluff township, August 1845..--Atchison county Court, June term, 1845 3.--1846: Bond of David Jones as constable of Bluff township approved.--Atchison County Court, Oct. term, 1846. 4.--1849: David Jones elected one of the county commissioners at the firs election, April 1849.--1881 Hist. of Fremont County, page 373 5.--1850: Member of grand jury for the first District Court, held at the Argyle house.--Hist. Atlas of Iowa, page 423 6.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa David Jones.....55....b NY Ruth P............44.......OH David..............19........Ind Jerry...............17........Ind Martina...........15........Ind Hubard............12.......Iowa Nancy..............8........Iowa Martha.............1........Iowa 7.--1851: ORDERED to serve as grand juror for next term of District Court.--Minutes, April 8, 1851. 8.--1852: Fremont county Census: "Franklin township" David Jones.....3m....4f 9.--1853: Land entry by Ruth Jones, dated April 20, 1853 for the east half of the southwest quarter of section 3 township 67 range 42; ALSO for the east half of the northwest quarter of section 10 township 67 range 42. 10.--1854: Fremont county census, "Franklin township" Ruth Jones....1m....4f....no voter....no militia....no aliens 11.--1854: Richard Williams and Ruth Jones married on August 6, 1854 by Peter Howe, J.P.--Atchison County, MO., Marriage Book "A:, page 42