This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gaylord Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1768 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes. 1.--1804: E.B. Gaylord came to Ross township as early as 1846; born 1804 in Massachusetts. Children: Mary S., Sarah, William W., Clarissa, Moses W., Paula M., Elijah B.--1881 History of Fremont county, pages 567, 702. 2.--1842: "I, Moses W. Gaylord of Tabor, Fremont county, Iowa, on my oath depose and say that I am a son of Elijah B. Gaylord and was born at Macedonia, Hancock, Ill., Jan. 8, 1842, and came with parents with the Mormons from Nauvoo, Ill., to Council Bluffs, Iowa, then called Kanesvile, in 1846, and in October of that year moved with my parents to a village or settlement called Lacey Grove about 6 miles south of where Tabor now stands, and that I lived in that locality constantly ever since. Dated May 14, 1924.--from a pamphlet "Manti: the Grove, the Town, the Cemetery", published by the Manti Memorial Association about 1960; page 43. 3.--1850: E. B. Gaylord ORDERED to serve as petit juror at first District Court.--Minutes, FEb. 4, 1850 4.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa Elisha Gaylord....45....b. Mass Elizabeth............42........Mass William...............16........NY Clarissa..............14........NY Maria..................10........Ill Moses..................8........Ill Polly....................6........Ill Elizabeth.............3.........Ill Eliza Jane............2.........Iowa 5.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Scott township" E.B. Gaylord...5m....5f 6.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Scott township" Elijah B. Gaylord....4m....6f....2 voters....1 militia....no aliens 7.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Scott township" Elijah B. Gaylord....52.....b. Mass.....10 years in the State Elizabeth...............48.........Mass.....10 Maria.....................16.........Ill...........10 Moses....................14........Ill............10 Polly.......................11.......Ill.............10 Eliza...................... 8.........Iowa........8 Elijah B...................5.........Iowa.........5 William W. Gaylord....22.....NY..........10 Hannah.....................17.....Ill..............4 Edith..........................0......Iowa.........0