This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Thomson, Mark, Stephens Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1868 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.--1842: Thomas Thomson, born at Linlethgowshire, Scotland; to America in 1842, locting in Fremont county, Iowa. Farmer and stock raiser until 1874 when he moved to Riverton and was the first banker, then in hardward business. A Baptist.--1881 Hist. of Fremont county, page 697. 2.--1852: Marriage license to Thomas S. Thompson and Mrs. Josephine Stephens, March 27, 1852. 3.--1852. Fremont county Census, "Fulton township" T. Thompson....2m...1f 4.--1854: Fremont county Census, "Franklin township" Thomas Thompson....1m....1f....1 voter....no militia...no aliens 5.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Franklin township" Thomas Thomson.....65....b. Scotland....8 years in the State Margaret..................37........Ireland........9 Henry Mark..............21........Switzerland..4 1888: Thomas Thompson moved to a farm south of Farragut.--Fremont County Herald, June 28, 1888.