This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McKissick, Pottawatamie Indians, Acord, Argyle, Reeves Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1823 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.--1845: William K. McKissick was paid $800 for 800 bushel of corn for destitute Pottawatamie Indians June 30, 1845. Payments made by the Indian sub-agency at Council Bluffs. 2.--1847: William McKissick appointed judge of election in Bluff township.--Atchison County Court, June term, 1847. N.B.: Notice that if he were living in McKissick Grove, he would have been living in Polk township. "Bluff township" means he was living on the west side of the Nishnabotna!--W.F. 3.--1847: William K. McKissick and Martha Acord were married on July 20, 1847 by A. H. Argyle, J.P. of Bluff township.--Atchison county Marriage Book "A", page 13. 4.--1849: William K. McKissick elected one of the county commissioners at the first election in April 1849.--Hist. of Fremont County, 1881, page 373. 5.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, IOwa William McKissick.....26.....b. MO Martha Ann...............22.........Ohio Mary.........................1..........Iowa 6.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Sidney Township" William McKissick.....3m.....3f 7.--1852: ORDERED to serve as grand juror until August 1, 1853.--Greenwood, Sept. 1, 1852 8.--1853: William K. McKissick, assessor of Sidney township, made a return July 1853.--Greenwood. 9.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Sidney township" W.K. McKissick....1m....2f....1 voter...1 militia....no aliens 10.--1854 (?).--Ran a ferry across the Missouri river from Hamburg to Nebraska City.--Reporter. (I can't figure out exactly what this would have been referring to!.--W.F.) 11.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Sidney township" William K. McKissick.....33.....b. MO....15 years in the State Martha..........................28.........Ohio...13 Lucretia..........................3.........Iowa......3 Virginia...........................0.........Iowa......0 William Reeves..............7..........Ohio.......1