This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pursons, Shepard Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1833 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. 1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa John M. Pursons.....34.....b. England.....3 years in the State May L.....................29........Mass.........8 Sissy......................1..........Iowa...........1 Lucindia Shepard.....24.........Mass.........8