This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCracken, Cook Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1818 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. 1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Sidney township" Samuel McCracken....36....b. Ind.....14 years in the State Elizabeth...................33.......Tenn....14 William N...................14.......Tenn....14 Mary A......................13........Iowa.....13 Isaac T.......................10.......Iowa.....10 Susannah....................5.......Iowa......5 Samuel W...................1........Iowa......1 Joshua Cook...............24......Ind.........15