This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Benner, Ettleman, Forney, Study Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1862 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.--1792: Barbara Benner, daughter of Daniel and Catherine (Ettleman) Benner, born on Sept. 30, 1792 in Penn.; died August 22, 1879. Wife of John Study and mother of Leonard Study and also Mary Ann Forney and David Study.--Stanley, in the Argus-Herald of July 4, 1957, page 7. 2.--1845 - 1846: One of the Mormons who came from Hancock county, ILL, in 1845 - 1846; first settlers in Scott township.--Mills - Fremont history, section 2, page 11. 3.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa Barbara Study.....57.....b. Penn Leonard..............20.........Ohio Mary Ann............15.........Ohio 4.--1854: Fremont county census, " Scott township" Barbara Study....no m....2f....no voters....no militia...no aliens 5.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Scott township" Barbary Study.....63.....b. Penn.....10 years in the State Mary...................21........Ohio......10