This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cook Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1592 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" S.T. Cook.....5m...2f 1854: Fremont county Census: "Sidney township: Stephen Cook....6m....2f....2 voters.....2militia....no aliens 1856: Iowa State Census, Fremont county, "Sidney township". Stephen Cook.....56.....14 years in Iowa....born N.C. Patience (?)........54......14..............................N.C. William...............22......14..............................Ind. Stephen..............18......14..............................Ind. Lidia....................18......14.............................Ind. Jesse..................12......12.............................Iowa