This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: farwellwalter Surnames: Fleury, Borchers, George, McPherson, Woerlen, Martin, Bernard, Faw Faw, Luce, Huntsucker, Classification: biography Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.iowa.counties.fremont/7409/mb.ashx Message Board Post: 1836.-- "Letters from Council Bluffs Indian Agency", 1836 - 1843, Roll No. 215: (1) Requisitions for Upper Missouri Indian Agency, March - June 1837 (sic): Simon Fleury was assistant blacksmith for the Omaha Indians. (2) June 30, 1837: People employed at the Council Bluffs Agency and date of service: Simon Fleury, Sept. 15, 1836 (sic), striker for the Omahas. (3) June 7, 1838: Pay for the fourth quarter of 1837 and first quarter of 1838: Simon Fleury as assistant smith of the Omahas. 1840.-- "History of Atchison County, Missouri", page 872: Simon Fleury settled here in 1840; afterwards he moved to Oregon State. 1841 - 1845.--COUNTY COURT RECORDS for Bluff township, Holt county, Missouri: June Term 1841: The election on the first Monday in August is to be held at Simon Flurees in Nishnebotany township. July Term 1842: (Same as June 1841). June Term 1843: (The election is to be held at Daniel Huntsakers in Bluffs township.) May Term 1844: George Borchers, Simon Flury and Monroe George are appointed to view road from Woerlen's Ferry up to William McPherson's. (N.B.: Woerlen's Ferry was at The Narrows, and McPherson's woodyard was on the bank's of the Missouri river, four miles north of present Nebraska City, NE......William McPberson had married a Potawatomie woman, but since he lived outside the Potawatomie Indian Country, his family was not entitled to any annuity payment.--W.F.) February Term 1845: Their road report was turned in. 1842.-- "Holt County, Missouri, Circuit Court Records", March Term, 1842.--Simon Flurey applies for citizenship. He arrived in United Sttes from Canada about January 1836. Has lived in Holt County since it was established in 1841. (N.B.: One needs to look for Simon Fleury in the very earliest records of the Platte Purchase, first; then he would have been found in the attached portion of Buchanan county, Missouri, called "Neatawah Territory"; and this became Holt county, Missouri in 1841.--W.F.) 1842.--JESUITS OF THE MIDDLE UNITED STATES. Gilbert J. Garaghan. Vol. II, page 230.--Father Hoecken married Simon Fleury and Catherin Martin on May 3, 1842 at English Grove, Missouri. July 1842.-- Simon Florey bought goods at the estate farm sale of Joseph Bernard. (N.B.: Bernard was called "Faw Faw" by the Otoe Indians.--W.F.) 1843.--John B. Luce, sub-agent at The Council Bluffs Indian agency incurred an expense at Fleurys while traveling the Council Bluffs road. (Did Fleury have some kind of public accommodation that Luce took advantage of?--W.f.) 1845.--Surveyor's Map, for township 66 range 42: Locates "Flora's" along the road to Couoncil Bluffs, in section 2. EDec. 11, 1847.-- Plattsburg, Missouri, Land Abstract Book: Simon Flerry entered the SE quarter of the southwest quarter of section 2 township 66 range 42. (N.B.: Hamburg, Iowa is in township 67 range 42, so this puts Fleury just below the Iowa-Missouri border, at The Narrows, where the Nishnabotna and the Missouri rivers were but a few hundred feet apart.--W.F.) 1848, 1850 Atchison County, Missouri, Deed Books: (1) Vol. 1, page 135, Sept. 27, 1848: Simon and Catherine Fleury sell to John Woerlen the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section 2 township 66 range 2. (2) Vol. 1 page 294, March 2, 1850: Simon and Catherine Fleury sell to John Woerlen the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of section 2, township 66 range 42. May 1850.-- Is Simon Floury concealing estate papers of Joseph Bernard? Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.