This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Newton Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1825 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. 1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Sidney township" William S. Newton....51....b. VA....9 years in the State Lucy E....................45........VA....9 Isaac.......................19........IND...9 Mary E....................17........IND...9 Lucy J.....................12........IND...9 Huldah A.................10........IND....9 Henry P....................8........Iowa...8 Thomas M.................6........Iowa...6 Perlina E...................3........Iowa...3 Andrew G..................3........Iowa....3 John W.....................0........Iowa....0