This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Murphy Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1815 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/`8/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes. 1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Sidney township" Joseph Murphy....26....b. Ireland.....1 year in the State Elizabeth.............20.......Ohio........8