This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McKissick, Chaney, Sloan Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1821 Message Board Post: During her retirment, 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.--Cornelius McKissick set out the first orchard in Fremont county.--Lingenfelter, page 7. 2.--1840: Cornelius McKissick came to Iowa in March 1840 from Clay county, Missouri; homesteaded a farm in Madison township where Theron Mattes family now live (in 1958); 1841 brothers Jacob and Pickney settled on adjoining homesteads.--Hamburg Reporter. 3.--1840: Cornelius McKissick, founder of McKissick's Grove in what is now Madison township, came in 1840.--Cowden 4.--1841: McKissick's Grove was named for its first settler,C.W. McKissick, before 1841.--1881 Hist. of Fremont county, p. 510 5.--1849: C.W. McKissick appointed supervisor of Road District No. 1.--Minutes, Oct. 15, 1849. 6.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa Cornelius McKissick....32....b. VA Hannah.......................28........KY Martha........................7..........Iowa Alexander...................6..........Iowa John P........................4..........Iowa Mary Chaney..............31.........KY 7.--1851: ORDERED to serve as petit juror for the second term of District Court.--Minutes, Apr. 8, 1851. 8.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Madison township" C.W. McKissick....4m....3f 9.--1854: Fremont county census, "Madison township" C.W. McKissick....4m....4f....1 voter....1 militia....no aliens 10.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Madison township" Cornelius McKissick....45....b.Tenn....16 years in the State Hannah.......................35.......KY Martha........................13.......Iowa William A.....................12......Iowa John............................10......Iowa Francis.........................6.......Iowa Elizabeth.......................4......Iowa Susan............................2......Iowa Joseph.........................4/12....Iowa 11.--1861: Charles Sloan and Marth McKissick were married August 4, 1861 by A.S. Noblett, J.P.--Atchison county, MO, Marriage Book A, page 185