This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: English, Buckham Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1715 Message Board Post: During her retirement, Mabel Bridges (4/6/1891 - 4/18/1976), using a card file, gathered notes on the earliest of the pioneers in Fremont county. I'm copying the following from Mabel's notes: 1.--1840's: Set out the second orchard in Fremont county.--Lingenfelter, page 7. N.B.: Notice the sizeable orchard that Tilden Buckham set out in 1852, as described in his biography. (Use SEARCH to find this.--W.F.) 2.--1852: Fremont county Census: "Madison township" H.W. English.....1 m....1 f 3.--1853 Land entries for Harvey W. English: (a).--July 11, 1853: the west half of the northeast quarter, and the northwest quarter, all of section 17 township 67 range 41. (b).--Sept. 1, 1853: the southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 8 township 67 range 41. (c).--Dec. 17, 1853: the east half of the southwest quarter of section 18 township 67 range 41. 4.--1854: Fremont county Census: "Madison township" H.W. English....2m....1 f....1 voter...1 militia....no aliens 5.--1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Madison township" Harvey English....31....b. MO....14 years in state Mary..................26........MO