This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hardin, Harding Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1778 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Sidney township" Wm. H. Hardin....3m....2f 2.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Sidney township" Wm. H. Hardin....3m....3.rf....1 voter...no militia....no aliens 3.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Sidney township" Wm. H. Harding....44....b England....13 years in the State Marian E. (m).......30.......New York...18 Amasa W..............9.......Iowa............9 William H..............7........Iowa............7 Lidia J...................5........Missouri......5 Sophia..................2.........Iowa...........2