This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Eberman, Greenwood, Hiatt, Blackfoot Indians Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1713 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.--1847: John Greenwood was married to Frances Eberman on Dec. 20, 1847, by James Cummins, J.P.--Atchison county Marriage Book "A", page 14. 2.--1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, IOwa Margaret Eberman.....53......PA Nancy......................17......ILL Elizabeth..................14......ILL Eliza Ann..................11......ILL 3.--1852: Fremont county Census, "Madison township" Margaret Eberman....1m....4f 4.--1854 Fremont county Census, 1856 Iowa State Census: NOT SHOWN. N.B.: John Greenwood was the son of "Old (Caleb) Greenwood", noted mountain man of The West, and of a woman of the Blackfoot Tribe of Indians where Greenwood trapped during the l830's. Old Greenwood, for his last time, emigrated west in 1848...Somewhere I have picked up the story that John came to no good end: He was purported to have been so abusive of the Indians against all advice of his famous father, that they murdered him on the plains west of the Missouri....Another of the daughters married a Hiatt, and lived north of Sidney, raising a large family....When the government surveyors were working in 1845 - 1846, they reported that "John Everman" was living along the old Council Bluffs - St. Joseph Road, northeast of Hamburg, Iowa. His estate, probated in Atchison county, names two sons who had left to serve in the Mexican War. However, they drowned while bathing in the Missouri river at St. Joseph before they had had a chance to enlist. The estate also shows negro slaves! in the household--meaning that southern Fremont county, when still a part of Missouri, was slave territory!--W.F.