This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Todd Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1870 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.--Rev. John Todd of Tabor mentioned as outstanding abolitionist. Once dressed a slave woman with a veil, cloak, and gloves to look like his wife and drove her in his buggy to Lewis, 50 miles away, in broad daylight. Todd kept in his barn one winter 200 rifles which had been sent by the Mass. - Kansas State Committee for John Brown's use in Kansas.--Curt Harnak in "The Iowan", pp. 20-23, 44, 47. 2.--1849: Settlers in Benton township, 1849, included Rev. John Todd from Ohio.--1881 Hist. of Fremont Co., page 540 3.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa John Todd....31....b. Penn Martha.........28........Ohio James..........4..........Ohio Mary.............2..........Ohio Quintus.......6/12.......Ohio 4.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Scott township" John Todd....3m....3f 5.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Scott township" John Todd....4m....3f....1 voter...l militia....no aliens. 6.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Scott township" John Todd.....37.....b. Penn....5 years in the State Martha A.......34........Ohio.....5 James E........10........Ohio.....5 Mary L...........8..........Ohio.....5 Quintus C.......6..........Ohio....5 Margaret H......4..........Iowa....4 Flora A............0.........Iowa.....0