This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lambert, Blanchard, Clegy Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1800 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.--1829: McKinney Lambert, born in Virginia in 1829; moved to Kentucky in 1833; came to Iowa from Kentucky in 1851; married Lydia, a daughter of Dr. Ira Blanchard, on April 22, 1852.--1881 Hist. of Fremont county, page 622. 2.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Fulton township" M. Lambert....2m....1f 3.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Fulton township" McKinney Lambert....1m....2f....1 voter....1 militia....no aliens 4.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Benton township" McKinney Lambert....26....b. VA.....5 years in the State Lydia.......................19.........MO....8 Maryetta E.................3........Iowa....3 Virestus L..................1........Iowa.....1 H.S. Clegy................26......England..6