This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Pralls, Rawles Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1832 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. 1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa Joseph Pralls.....41.....b. Ohio Cynthia..............38.........Ohio Magdelene..........18........Ind. Jane...................15........Ind. Elizabeth............13........Ind. Joseph................8.........MO Robert.................6.........MO Thomas...............2.........MO N.B.: This is Joseph R-A-W-L-E-S after whom Rawles township in Mills county was named. The Fremont county enumerator for the 1850 census spent several days in the southern part of present Mills county, and the 1850 census for Fremont county contains quite a few early Mills county residents. No one really knew in 1850 where the north line of Fremont county would fall, because the lines for townships 69 and 70 had not been surveyed by that date. Townships 67 and 68 were identified by 1845 - 1846 as part of Atchison county, Missouri.--W.F.