This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lovelady, Sweeny Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1808 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.--1842: Came to Fremont county before 1842.--Hist. Atlas, page 423, and, 1881 Hist. of Fremont county, page 637 2.--1847: William Lovelady appointed judge of election in Bluff township.--Atchison County Court, June term, 1847. 3.--1847: ORDERED William M. Lovelady by appointed overseer of Road District No. 6 in Bluff township.--Atchison county Court, August term, 1847. 4.--1850: ORDERED to serve as a petit jjuror at the first Distrtict Court.--Minutes, Feb. 4, 1850 5.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa William M. Lovelady....39....b. Tenn. Sarah A.....................25........Tenn A.J.............................8.........MO Mary A.......................7..........Iowa Thomas......................5..........Iowa Malinda J....................3..........Iowa William C...................1...........Iowa 6.--1852: Fremont county census, "Franklin township" William Lovelady....4m....4f 7.--1853: (1) April 20, 1853: Land entry at Council Bluffs for the northeast quarter of section 26 township 69 range 42....(2) July 26, 1853: Land entry at Council Bluffs for the southeast quarter of the southeast quarter of section 23 township 68 range 42. 8.--1854: Fremont county census, "Franklin township" Wm. Lovelady....4m....4f....1 voter....2 militia.... no aliens 9.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Franklin township" William H. Lovelady....45....b. Tenn....13 years in the State Sarah A.....................26........Tenn....`13 Andrew J....................14........MO......14 Mary A.......................13........Iowa.....13 Melinda J....................9..........Iowa......9 William C....................6..........Iowa......6 Sarah A......................4..........Iowa......4 James M....................1..........Iowa.......1 Cornelius Sweeny.......27.........Penn.....1