This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Greenwood, Brubaker, Liggett, Blackfoot Indian Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1776 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 -4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the Fremont county pioneers. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--1846: Thomas and Eliza Greenwood granted a warranty deed to a lot in Gallatin, Missouri, to Andrew Kinkead, in June 1846.--Davies county, Missouri, records. 2.--1848: Elected justice of the peace for Bluff township, Atchison county, Missouri, in August 1848.--Atchison county, Book A., page 161. N.B.: Although Thomas Greenwood was one of the County Judges in Davies county, Missouri, in 1846 he moved to Pleasant Grove, Bluff township, Atchison county. From here, he served as a bullwhacker during the Mexican War, driving teams hauling supplies from Old Fort Kearney (Nebraska City, now) to New Fort Kearney near the Grand Islands in the Platte river.--W.F. 3.--1849: According to the "Frontier Guardian", Vol. I No. 16, published at Kanesville, Iowa, Thomas Greenwood was elected coroner of Fremont county in the election held August 20, 1849. 4.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa Thomas Greenwood....47....b. Penn. (Dauphin co.) Eliza.........................35........Penn. (Somerset co.) John..........................12........Penn (Somerset co.) Clarinda.....................10........Penn (Somerset co.) William...................... 7.........Missouri (Davies co.) Joseph.......................5.........Missouri (Davies co.) Winfield S..................1..........Iowa (Pleasant Grove, Fremont county) N.B.: Clarinda (Greenwood) Liggett was Mabel Bridges' grandmother, and my great grandmother. I added the county in which the members of the family were born....Eliza was a Brubaker from Berlin, Somerset co., PA.--W. F. 5.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Fulton township" Thomas Greenwood....6m....2f 6.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Scott township" Thomas Greenwood....6m....2f....1 voter....no militia...no aliens 7.--1856: Land entry made at Council Bluffs, dated Mar. 6, 1856, for the northwest quarter of the southeast quarter. and, for the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 36, township 70 range 43, by Thomas Greenwood.--Courthouse record. 8.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Scott township" Thomas Greenwood....53.....b. Penn.....10 years in the State Eliza..........................41........Penn......10 John...........................18.......Penn.......10 Clarinda......................16.......Penn.......10 William A....................14.......MO.........10 Joseph H.....................11.......MO.........10 Winfield S....................7........Iowa.........7 Walter.........................5........Iowa.........5 Thomas.......................1........Iowa.........1 James.........................30......Iowa..........0 N.B.: James Greenwood, shown in this enumeration, was a half-breed Indian. I have always had the idea that he was a son of Old Caleb Greenwood, a well-known mountain fur trapper, who had married a Blackfoot Indian....Mabel wouldn't hear of such an idea! BUT, Clarinda (Greenwood) Liggett's son Walter lived with us in his extreme old age: He would NOT tolerate any kind of a disparaging remark of a racial nature. SS--OO, I'm still suspicious.--W.F. 9.--1864: Joseph Greenwood enlisted in the 4th Iowa Cavalry, Co. "A", on March 25, 1864.