This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thomas Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1865 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.--1846: Jacob Thomas appointed judge of election Aug. 1, 1846 in Bluff township.--Atchison county, June term, 1846. 2.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, IOwa Jacob Thomas.....50.....b. Tenn Malinda...............48.........Tenn Elizabeth.............23.........Tenn Hannah................19.........Tenn 3.--1851: ORDERED to serve as petit juror for second term of Dist. Court.--Minutes, April; 8, 1851. 4.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Franklin township" Jacob Thomas....1m....3f 5.--1853: Land entry at Council Bluffs, Apr. 20, 1853, for the southeast quarter of section 23 township 68 range 42.--1881 Hist. of Fremont county, page 402 6.--1854: Fremont county Census Jacob Thomas....1m....3f....1 voter...no militia....no aliens 7.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Franklin township" Jacob Thomas.....62.....b. Tenn....7 years in the State Melinda...............54.........Tenn....7 Elizabeth............30..........Tenn....7 Hannah...............25..........Tenn....7