This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Gordon, Cummins Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1770 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.--1818: John Gordon, born in Ohio in 1818; located 1843 at Pleasant Grove, which then had but 4 or 5 houses. Wife Martha Cummins of Delaware county, Indiana. One son, Andrew C.---History of Fremont County, 1881, page 734 2.--1848: John Gordon appointed judge of election in Bluff township.--Atchison County, Missouri, August term, 1848. N.B.: I suppose Mabel thought everyone would know that her citation was referring to the Atchison County Court Records.--W.F. 3.--1850: ORDERED to serve as grand juror at the first District Court.--Minutes, February 4, 1850. ( Refers to the three-man Board of County Commissioners.--W.F.) 4.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa John Gordon....32....b. Ohio Martha............36........Ohio Andrew............9.........Indiana William............6.........Iowa 5.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Sidney township" John Gordon....3m....1f 6.--1853: Land Entries for John Gordon.--(a) No date: southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 10 township 69 range 41. (b) April 14, 1853: southwest quarter of section 31 township 69 range 41. (c) Dec. 14, 1853: southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 9 township 69 range 41. 7.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Sidney township" John Gordon....3m...2f....1 voter...1 militia....no aliens 8.--1854: Land Entry at Council Bluffs dated July 10, 1854 for the south quarter (half?) of the southeast quarter of section 15 township 69 range 42.--Courthouse transcript. 9.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Sidney township" John Gordon....38....b. Ohio....12 years in the State Martha.............41.......Ohio....12 Andrew M........15........Ind......12 William C.........12.......Iowa.....12 Martha E..........3.........Iowa......3