This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Douge Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1709 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: 1852: Fremont county Census: "Sidney township" N. Douge....1m....2f 1854: Fremont county Census: " Franklin township" Nathan G. Douge.....3m....2f....1 voter...1 militia...no aliens 1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Franklin township" Nathan G. Douge....30....b. NC....8 years in Iowa Elisa......................28.......Ohio..8 Nancy E..................8........IND...6 (?) Catherine M.............2........Iowa..2