This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Reel, Rector, Argyle Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1839 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.--1844: Hiram Reel, born 1844 in Atchison county, Missouri. Parent located in McKissick's Grove in 1845; father and a brother drowned at Argyle's Ferry while crossing in an overloaded boat.......Cynthia Reel's husband and son drowned at Argyle's Ferry.--1881 Fremont County History, pp. 722. 2.--1850 Federal Census, Fremont county, IOwa Cynthia Reel.....39.....b.Tenn Nancy...............15........Ind. Joseph..............13........Ind Henry................12........Ind Hiram................7..........MO Martha...............4..........Iowa 3.--1852: Fremont county census, "Madison township" C.A. Reel.....3m....3f 4.--1853: William Rector and Cynthia L. Reel were married Jan. 12, 1853, by William P. Mann.--Atchison Co., MO., Marriage Book "A", page 47.