This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Clark, Greenwood Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1593 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. Early settlers in Benton township included William Clark and wife from Missouri.--Hist. of Fremont Co., 1881, p. 540 2. ORDERED to serve as petit juror for first District Court.--Minutes, Feb. 4, 1850. (N.B.: This must refer to the minutes for the Board of Commissioners.--W.F.) 3. 1850: Federal Census, Fremont county, Iowa William Clark....36....born Ohio Catherine..........40...........Virginia Hester................8...........Virginia 4. 1852: Fremont county Census: "Fulton township" William Clark....2m....2f 5. Allowed $2.00 for services as judge of elections.--Greenwood, Dec. 7, 1852. (N.B.: Thomas Greenwood was the County Judge of Fremont county in 1852.--W.F.) 6. 1854: Fremont county Census: William Clark....1m....2f....1 voter....1 militia....no aliens 7. 1856: Iowa State Census, "Scott township": William L. Clark....44....b. VA.....7 years in Iowa Catherine.............46.........VA....7 Hester A..............14..........VA...7