This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Platt, Gaston, Hitchcock, Walton, Pawnee Indians Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1830 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.--His wife was a sister of G. B. Gaston; they had been connected with the Pawnee Indian mission .--1881 Hist. of Fremont county, pages 575 - 6. 2.--1845: Paid on April 1, 1845, $150.00 for his services as teacher.--Ex. Doc. No. 26. 3.--1846: L. W. Platt received $150.00 for his services as a farmer.--Abstract of Disbursements by Jonathan L. Bean, sub-agent. N.B.: Something is slightly incorrect here. IF Platt were working for the Pawnees, he would have been paid by the Council Bluffs Indian Agency at Bellevue, Nebraska, not by the Council Bluffs Indian Sub- Agency at Council Bluffs.--W.F. 4.--1847: Lester W. Platt was discharged as teacher on April 22, 1847.--Ex. Doc. No. 26. 5.--1847: Early settlers at Civil Bend included L. Platt, in 1847.--1881 Hist. of Fremont county, page 540. 6.--1847.--The first permanent resident was L.W. Platt, who with his wife came in 1847 from Ohio;was a graduate of Oberlin College; they had been sent as teachers to the Pawnee Indians near what is now Genoa, Nebr., where the government had started farming and a school for the Indians in 1846.--Mill - Fremont Counties history. 7.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa Lester Platt.........34.....b. Conn. Elvira..................30.........NY D.F. Matthews.....24.........VT Ashville Platt........23.........Conn. Alfred C. Platt.......21.........Conn. 8.--1851: ORDERED to serve as petit juror at the second term of District Court.--Minutes, April 8, 1851. 9.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Fulton township" L.W. Platt....4m....1 colored....1f 10.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Fulton township: Lester Platt....1m....2f....1 voter....1 militia....no aliens 11.--1854: Land entry at Council Bluffs made Oct. 11, 1854 for the west half of the northwest quarter, and for the north half of the southwest quarter, of section 11 township 68 range 44.--Courthouse records. 12.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Benton township" Lester W. Platt.....42.....b. Conn.....8 years in the State Elvira G................37.........NY.......8 Abigail Walton......36..........Mass...8 Ella M. Hichkock...10.........Mich....4 N.B.--Elvira Gaston Platt long outlived her husband. She later served as a teacher at the well-known Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Indian School.--W.F.