This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pauly, Tinker Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1828 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.--1815: Jacob Pauly, born in Breirer, Germany in 1815; learned the blacksmith trade; came to America in 1837; to Fremont county in 1843. Married Mary E. Tinker on Nov. 8, 1842. Enlisted in 1863 in Co. "A", 8th Iowa Cavalry, as a blacksmith. Children Oliver B., Mary L., Amanda M., Christian, Frederick, Frantz.--Hist. of Fremont County, 1881, page 667. 2.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa John J. Pauly.....35.....b. Germany Mary.................27.........Ohio Oliver.................2..........Iowa Nicholas............1..........Iowa 3.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Madison township" Jacob Pauly....4m....1f 4.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Madison township" Jacob Pauley....3m....3f....no voters....no militia....no aliens 5.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Madison township" Jacob Pauly....41....b. Germany....7 years in the State Mary..............33.........Ohio Oliver B...........8..........MO Nicholas..........7..........Iowa Louisa.............3..........Iowa Amanda...........1..........Iowa