This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Rector, Reel, McDowell, Tracy, Bonwell, Simmons Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1837 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.--Rev. Wm. Rector, a local preacher of the M.E. Church, lived at the foot of the bluffs southwest of wher Sidney now is, and was known as Father Rector.--1881 Hist. of Fremont county, page 576; 749. 2.--1849: Poll tax from William Rector is remitted.--Minutes, April 1, 1850. 3.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa William Rector.....58.....b. PA Elizabeth.............44.........KY William................18.........Ind Lydia...................16.........Ind John Tracy...........11.........Ind 4.--1850: Hugh Simmons, 22 and Lydia Rector, 18, were married June 23, 1850. 5.--1852: Marriage license to William Rector and Armina M. Bonwell, dated June 21, 1852.--Greenwood 6.--1852: FRemont county Census, "Franklin township" William Rector.....3m....n f. 7.--William Rector and Cynthia L. Reel were married Jan 12, 1853 by Wm. P. Mann.--Atchison county Marriage Book "A", page 47. 8.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Franklin township" Wm. Rector, Sr....4m....3f....1 voter....no militia....no aliens 9.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Frankllin township" William Rector.....63.....b. PA.....9 years in the State Cynthia L.............44........Tenn...12 Lydia McDowell....44........NJ.......10 Joseph Rector......19.........Ind......12 Nancy Reel..........21.........Ind......12 Franklin Reel........12.........MO.....12 Henry Reel...........17.........Ind......12 Martha Reel..........9..........Iowa.....9