This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kenceleur, Kinsler, Lamear, Roubidoux, Shipman, Livermore, O'Brien, Carr, Lee Classification: Biography Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/4231 Message Board Post: RECORDS OF RICHARDSON COUNTY, Nebraska: 1.--UNITED STATES - T0 - ZELLA KENCELEUR. Sept. 10, 1860.-- "....By the treaty of July 10, 1830 between the United States and the confederated tribes of the Sacs & Foxes, the President of the United States is authorized to assign to any of the half breeds of the Omahas, Iowa, Ottoes, and Yancton & Santie Bands of Sioux Indians, land between the Great and Little Nemaha Rivers in Nebraska. This land is to be held in fee simple and is not to be in excess of 640 acres. Then the Act of July 31, 1854 required that this be done. On March 29, 1860 the Secretary of Interior approved that Zella Kinsler receive 224 acres of land in this Nemaha Indian Reservation.....".-- Richardson County, Nebraska, Deed Book No. 18, page 121. 2.-- WILL BOOK OF RICHARDSON COUNTY, Nebraska.--"Will of Zella Kenceleur", dated January 11, 1865, and probated on June 15, 1865: Her daughter Sarah Kenceleur is a minor; William Kenceleur is Zella's husband and administrator. 3.-- GUARDIANSHIP papers , NO. 214 (dated circa 1872): Zella Kenceleur died in 1865 and her husband William Kenceleur died in January 1872. These parents left two underaged children, Melissa aged 11 years, and Sarah aged 10 years (these two girls being the only children or Zella Kenceleur). Asks that T. C. Hoyt be appointed their guardian. Joseph Lamear is a cousin of the said minors, who are non-residents of Nebraska, living in Sioux City, Iowa. 4.-- a. William Kensler married Anna Shipman on May, 25, 1865. b.--Lusie Kenceler married Charles Roubidoux on Mar. 16, 1862. N.B.: The Roubidoux's who lived at St. Joseph, Missouri, left many half breed children in southeastern Nebraska.--W.F. 5.-- Guardianship papers No. 89: William Kenceleur is appointed guardian of Henry, Edwin, Julia, Peter and Alexander Livermore. N.B.: Kenceleur and Livermore are the two men who built the Old French Bridge, crossing the Nishnabotna river at the northeast corner of Hamburg, Iowa.--W.F. 6.-- Richardson County Court Record No. 81: a.--Touisant Kenceleur died Nov. 19, 1874, aged 24 or 25 years old, in Laramie county, Wyoming. His father was French and his mother was a 1/2 breed Indian. The Kenceleur's formerly lived at Rulo, Nebraska.-- N. J. O'Brien, Sheriff of Laramie county, Wyoming. b.--T. J. Carr knew Touissant Kenceleur at Fort Fetterman, Wyoming Territory, in 1868, before his execution. c.-- William F. Lee said that Tousan Kenseleur was, in 1859, in Denver with his father William Kenceleur. In 1872 Touissant was in Cheyenne. Touissant was executed in Cheyenne in 1874. N.B.: William Kenceleur was one of those men who built the Platte River bridge over the North Fork of the Platte River in 1853 in Wyoming. This was one of the most famous bridges in the annals of the emigration along the Oregon Trail. Its construction plans appear to have followed those use for the Old French Bridge at Hamburg, but on a much grander scale. Fremont county Deed Books show that Kenceleur borrowed money from Joseph Roubidoux of St. Joseph, Missouri, in order to finance this endeavour. Touissant Kenceleur lived at French Village, on the east side of the Nishnabotna across from present Hamburg, Iowa, from about 1846 until William Kenceleur moved to Rulo, Richardson county, Nebraska in order to lay claim to the land given to his Indian half - breed children. This move probably occurred about 1858.--W.F.