This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Parker, Spicer, Wilcox Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1857 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.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa (Are listed in the house of S.A. Wilcox.--M.B.) Joseph P-a-r-k-e-r.....55.....b. Canada Asenath..................16..........Canada 2.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Franklin township" James Spicer.......3m.....1f 3.--1853: Land entries, dated May 2, 1853: (a).-- North half of the northeast quarter of section 9 township 67 range 42; AND, south half of the southeast quarter of section 4 township 67 range 42. All by James Spicer. (b).--Northeast quarter of section 3 township 67 range 42, by Joseph Parker. 4.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Franklin township" James Spicer.....2m....1f....1` voter....1 militia....1 alien 5.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Franklin township" James Spicer.....30.....b. VA...........6 years in the State Asenath.............22.........Canada....8 Joseph Parker....60..........Canada....8 (widower) 6.--1857: Was appointed post master on Nov. 18, 1857.--Hamburg Reporter, Oct. 24, 1946. (Was this at Austin?--M.B.)