This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lacy, Whitehead Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1799 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/19786), using a card file , gathered notes on the earliest Fremont county pioneers. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes. 1.--George Lacy was among those who settled at an early day.--Hist. Atlas of Iowa, page 423. 2.--1845: Captain Lacy located in 1845 south of Capt. Whitehead who then lived at Knox Big Spring.--1881 Hist. of Fremont County, page 511. 3.--1846: George Lacy appointed judge of election in Bluff township.--Atchison County Court, June term, 1846. 4.--1850: George Lacy ORDERED to serve as grand juror at first Dist. Court.--Minutes, Febr. 4, 1850. 5.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa George Lacy....57....b. VA Polly...............51........KY Josephine........18........Ill George............15........Ill Eliza Ann.........8.........MO Eliza Jane.......26........KY 6.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Sidney township" George Lacy....4m....4f 7.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Sidney township" George Lacy....4m....4f....1 voter....1 militia....no aliens 8.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Sidney township" George Lacy, Sr......64....b. VA.....11 years in the State Polly.......................56........KY.....11 Josephine................23........ILL.......11 Eliza A. M...............13........MO....11 Sarah E...................25........KY.....0 Henry T.....................7........ILL.. ...0 Homer W..................5.........MO....0 James E...................0.........Iowa...0 George Lacy, Jr........21........ILL.....11 Nancy Jane..............18........NC.....4 Leonidas Alonzo........0.........Iowa...0 9.--1859: George Lacy advertised land for sale, township 69 range 42, being the east half of the northwest quarter of section 18, timber, one-half miles west of George Lalcy's.--Fremont Herald of March 26, 1859.