This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Skidmore, Wolf, Brumbach, Chaney, Findley Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1854 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.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Madison township" M.R. Skidmore.....2m.....4f 2.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Sidney township" M.K. Skidmore.....1m.....4f.....1 voter....1 militia....no aliens 3.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Sidney township" M. K. Skidmore.....40.....b. Ind.....6 years in the State Elizabeth...............48........Ind.....6 Sarah E.................16........Ind.....6 Nancy C.................11.......Ind.....6 Mahala...................7.........MO....4 M.J. Wolf (f)............28........ILL....4 (a widow) Rebecca.................4.........Iowa...4 Amanda..................2.........Iowa...2 Henry Brumbach......26.......VA.....1 4.--1862: James Chaney and Nancy Skidmore, both of Fremont county, were married on Jan. 23, 1862 by Elias Findley "at my house".--Atchison county marriage records, page 199