This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cowles, Greenwood Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1667 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.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa Uriel B. Cowles....24....b. OH Mary Jane...........23.........PA Emeline................2.........PA 2.--1851: ORDERED to serve as petit juror for the second term of District Court.--Minutes, Apr. 8. 1851. 3.--1852: Fremont county Census: "Madison township" U.B. Cowles....1m....2f 4.--1852: On August 1, 1853 was ORDERED to serve as grand juror until August 1, 1853.--Greenwood, Sept. 2, 1852. 5.--1852: Allowed $1.00 for service as clerk of election.--Greenwood, DEc. 15, 1852. 6.--1853: Land Entries at Council Bluffs,May 23, 1853: (1) 31 acres in the northwest quarter of section 18 township 67 range 41; (2) southwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section 7 township 67 range 41; (3) northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 18 township 67 range 41. 7.--1854: Land Entry at Council Bluffs, Feb. 1, 1854: West half of the southwest quarter of section 18 township 67 range 41. 8.--1854: Fremont county Census: "Madison township" Uriah B. Cowles...1m...2f...1 voter...1 militia...no aliens 9.--1856: Iowa State Census: Fremont county, "Madison township" Uriah Cowles....29....b. PA....6 years in Iowa Mary J.............27........PA Emeline.............8........PA