This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Scott, Barrett. Tracy, Johnson, Elledge Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1848 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.--1813: J. C. Scott, born 1813 in Kenturcky; Judge of Atchison county, Mo., before State of Iowa was organized.--Hist. Fremont County, page 644. N.B.: This would have to be referring to a so-called "county judge", three of whom ran the business affairs of the Missouri counties much as the 3-man county commissioners ran the affairs of Iowa counties before the County Judge system was inaugurated.--W.F. 2.--Pleasant Grove school is located on what is now the Fred L. Johnson home, south of the Scott homestead.--Reporter. 3.--1840: On the Clark Scott farm north of town is a pear tree planted by his grandfather, John Clark Scott, shortly after he homesteaded in 1840.--Hamburg "Reporter" 4.--1842: Sarah Scott was the first white girl born in Fremont county, Feb. 27, 1842, daughter of "Judge" and Mrs. J. C. Scott, among the first settlers in Pleasant Grove. She married Ed Elledge, and moved to Nebraska in 1886, and later to near Osage, Kansas.....Clark Scott still resides on the original homestead.--Hamburg "Reporter", Centennial issue, Oct. 24, 1946, section 5. 5.--1845: J.C. Scott appointed a justice of the peace for Bluff township.--Atchison County Court, Aug. term, 1845. 6.--1846: John C. Scott appointed an allotting justice for Bluff township.--Atchison County Court, Apr. term, 1846. 7.--1850: ORDERED to serve as petit juror at the first District Court.--Minutes, Feb. 4, 1850. 8.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa John C. Scott.....36.....b. KY Malinda..............28.........KY Elizabeth............11.........MO Sarah..................8..........Iowa 9.--1851: ORDERED to serve as grand juror at the next term of District Court.--Minutes, April 8, 1851. 10.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Franklin township" John C. Scott.....2m....4f 11.--1853: Land entry made at Council Bluffs on May 10, 1853 for the southwest quarter of section 26 township 68 range 42.--Courthouse record. 12.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Franklin township" John C. Scott.....2m.....4f....2 voters...2 militia....no aliens. 13.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Franklin township" John C. Scott.....42.....b. KY.....? in the State Melinda..............34.........KY.....? Elizabeth............16.........MO....? Sarah J...............15........Iowa....13 (why not "15"?) Mary A................5..........Iowa.....5 John H................2..........Iowa......2 Geo. W...............0..........Iowa......0 John Barrett.........22........Iowa......3 (something if fishy!) John Tracy...........17........Iowa......9........"....