This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Lambert, Ricketts, Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1801 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.--1842: Wm. Lambert and sons John, Wm., and Jovey (?) located on the MIssouri bottom near the Indian trader McPherson, nearly due west of Sidney, in 1842. He occupied the farm now (1910) occupied by Platt Ricketts.--Mills - Fremont Biog. Hist, section 2, pp. 12, 31. 2.--1850: ORDERED Wm. Lambert, Sr., to serve as grand juror at the first Dist. Court.--Minutes, Feb. 4, 1850 3.--1850: William Lambert appointed judge of election in Fulton township--Minutes, July 1, 1850 4.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, IOwa William Lambert....30....b. VA Sarah...................30.........VA Sidney...................8..........KY Ellen......................2..........Iowa 5.--1851: William Lambert ORDERED to serve as petit juror for second term of District Court.--Minutes, April 8, 1851. 6.--1852: Fremont county census, "Sidney township" Wm. Lambert....2m.....2f