This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Matthews, Tucker, Rector Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1811 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.--1851: S. (sic) P. Matthews and Rachel Tucker were granted a marriage license on Oct. 11, 1851.--Courthouse records. 2.--1851: D. P. Matthews, 26, married Rachel Tucker, 21, on Oct. 20, 1851, at the house of Wm. Rector.--Marriages 3.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Fulton township" D. P. Matthews....2m....1f 4.--1854: FRemont county Census, "Scott township" Darius Matthews....2m....1f....1 voter....1 militia....no aliens 5.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Scott township" Derius Matthews.....30....b. VT....7 years in the State Rachel T.................25........NY...5 Lucius T..................3.........Iowa..3 Artava E. (m)...........1.........Iowa...1