Residents of the Settlement of McKissick Grove, Fremont County, Iowa
Residents
1850 U. S. Census, District 22, Fremont County, Iowa
Dwelling #4James W. Davis (age 42) (farmer) (Virginia) (James Ward Davis) (born 1808)
Elizabeth Davis (age 33) (Indiana) (Martha Elizabeth Gordon Davis) (born 1820)
Rosa Davis (age 11) (Indiana) (born 1839)
William Davis (age 10) (Indiana) (William Clark Davis) (born 1841)
Sarah Davis (age 8) (Indiana) (Sarah Jane Davis) (born 1843)
Mary Davis (age 6) (Indiana) (Mary Ann Davis) (born 1845)
Martha Davis (age 4) (Indiana) (Martha Elmira Davis) (born 1847) (married George Washington Forney)
Delilah Davis (age 2) (Indiana) (Delilah Isabelle Davis) (born 1849)
Dwelling #30
Milton Richards (age 40) (farmer) (Ohio) (born 1810)
Jane Richards (age 35) (Ohio) (Jane Jackson Richards) (born 1815)
Elizabeth Richards (age 14) (Ohio) (Elizabeth Jane Richards) (born 1836)
Frances Richards (age 11) (Illinois) (Frances Margaret Richards) (born 1837)
Julian Richards (age 9) (Illinois) (Julia Ann Richards) (born 1839)
Mary Richards (age 7) (Illinois) (born 1842)
Edward Richards (age 5) (Illinois) (Edward Jackson Richards) (born 1845)
Augustus Richards (age 1) (Iowa) (Augustus Daniel Richards) (born 1848)
Dwelling #44
Peter Livermore (age 39) (farmer) (Canada) (born 1811)
Julia Livermore (age 19) (Missouri) (Julia LeClaire) (born 1832) (sister of Angele Zoe Leclaire Kensler)
Peter Livermore (age 2) (Iowa) (born 1847)
Henry Livermore (age 1) (Iowa) (born 1849)
Willliam Cansler (age 40) (farmer) (Canada) (William Kensler) (born 1804)
Stacy Cansler (age 22) (Missouri) (Eustasee LaBoue Kensler) (born 1828)
Missouri Cansler (age 6) (Missouri) (Eustacia Zoe Missouri Kensler) (born 1844)
Susan Cansler (age 3) (Missouri) (Susan Kensler) (born 1842)
Ongel Cansler (age 11) (Missouri) (Angele Zoe LeClaire Kensler) (born 1840) (sister of Julia LeClaire)
Yerrel Cansler (age 9 months) (Missouri) (Terrel Kensler) (born 1850)
Family members not listed
Toussaint Kensler (born 1847)
Levi Kensler (born 1849)
Dwelling #50
Nancy Perman (age 41) (Kentucky) (Nancy Comstock Parman) (born 1819)
Ellen Perman (age 17) (Missouri) (Phoebe Ellen Parman) (born 1833)
Mary Ann Perman (age 15) (Missouri) (Mary Ann Parman) (born 1835) (married James Ward Allen born 14 Jul 1819 in New York) (built his cabin on the farm of Jacob McKissick) (died 11 Oct 1862 in Helena, Phillips, Arkansas during the Civil War) (John Howell Allen was their son)
Lucinda Perman (age 13) (Missouri) (Lucinda A. Parman) (born 1837)
Giles Perman (age 10) (Missouri) (Giles Gilbert Parman) (born 1839)
James W. Perman (age 4) (Iowa) (James Woolsey Parman) (born 1846)
Family members not listed
James Parman (born 1815) (died 1847) (husband of Nancy Comstock Parman)
Dwelling #51
Thomas Farmer (age 40) (farmer) (Kentucky) (born 1809)
Mary Farmer (age 38) (Kentucky) (Mary Calvin Farmer) (born 1811)
William Farmer (age 18) (farmer) (Kentucky) (William Terrell Farmer) (born 1831)
John M. Farmer (age 17) (farmer) (Kentucky) (John Milton Farmer) (born 1833)
Nancy Farmer (age 15) (Kentucky) (born 1834)
Margaret Farmer (age 13) (Missouri) (Margaret A. Farmer) (born 1835)
George W. Farmer (age 11) (Missouri) (George Washington Farmer) (born 1839)
Ann Farmer (age 9) (Missouri) (born 1841)
Cynthia Farmer (age 8) (Missouri) (Cynthia U. Farmer) (born 1842)
James H. Farmer (age 6) (Iowa) (born 1843)
Caroline Farmer (age 5) (Iowa) (Caroline Kimes Farmer) (born 1846)
Winfield Scott Farmer (age 4) (Iowa) (born 1847)
Elizabeth Farmer (age 1) (Iowa) (born 1849)
Family members not listed
Zachary Taylor Farmer (born 1850)
Almeda B. Farmer (born 1853)
Sarah Farmer (born 1853)
Dwelling #52
Daniel McKissick (age 32) (farmer) (Missouri) (born 1818)
Melissa McKissick (age 28) (Missouri) (Melissa Fowler McKissick) (born 1823)
John McKissick (age 3) (Iowa) (John Best McKissick) (born 1846)
Hannah McKissick (age 1) (Iowa) (Hannah Jane McKissick) (born 1848)
Lavica McKissick (age 1 month) (Iowa) (Lavisa Katherine McKissick) (born 1850)
Other family members not listed
Martha Melissa McKissick (born 1856)
Dwelling #53
Nancy G. Watts (age 32) (Illinois) (Nancy G. Wilson Watts) (born 1818)
Louraney E. Watts (age 10) (Missouri) (Luraney Elizabeth Watts) (born 1840)
Nancy Watts (age 9) (Missouri) (Nancy A. Watts) (born 1843)
Mary Watts (age 7) (Missouri) (Mary Frances Watts) (born 1844)
John H. Watts (age 5) (Iowa) (John H. C. Watts) (born 1848)
Allen A. Watts (age 1) (Iowa) (Allen Alden Watts) (born 1849)
Other family members not listed
Henry Watts (born 1814) (died 1849) (husband of Nancy G. Wilson Watts)
George Calaway (age 20) (farmer) (Ohio) (George Lanson Callaway) (born 1830)
George Lambert (age 56) (clothier) (England) (born 1794)
Dwelling #54
Clim Fugitt (age 23) (farmer) (Missouri) (Chism Cooper Fugitt) (born 1827)
Elizabeth H. Fugitt (age 22) (Missouri) (Elizabeth H. McWilliams) (born 1829)
David McWilliams (age 28) (schoolteacher) (Kentucky) (born 1822)
Simon H. McWilliams (age 23) (farmer) (Missouri) (born 1827)
David and Simon are brothers of Elizabeth H. McWilliams Fugitt.
Dwelling #55
P. Brown (age 30) (attorney at law) (Missouri) (Christopher Perry Brown) (born 1818)
Frances Brown (age 24) (Missouri) (Frances Fugitt Brown) (born 1822)
Elizabeth Brown (age 1) (Iowa) (born 1849)
Dwelling #56
Townsend Fugitt (age 27) (farmer) (Missouri) (Townsend Fugate Fugitt) (born 1824)
Eliza A. Fugitt (age 22) (Missouri) (Elizabeth Ann McKissick Fugitt) (born 1828)
Nancy Fugitt (age 2) (Iowa) (Nancy A. Fugitt) (born 1848)
Henry Fugitt (age 5 months) (Iowa) (Henry C. Fugitt) (born 1850)
Dwelling #57
Jacob McKissick (age 40) (farmer) (Pennsylvania) (born 1811)
K. Skidmore (age 36) (farmer) (Indiana) (Melandus Kinner Skidmore) (born 1814)
Elizabeth Skidmore (age 40) (New York) (Elizabeth Ditson Skidmore) (born 1806)
Sarah E. Skidmore (age 11) (Illinois) (born 1840)
Nancy Skidmore (age 5) (Illinois) (Nancy E. Skidmore) (born 1845)
Mahalia Skidmore (age 2) (Missouri) (Mahala Skidmore) (born 1848)
Dwelling #58
William Tucker (age 37) (farmer) (North Carolina) (born 1813)
Nancy Tucker (age 27) (Missouri) (Nancy Ann Dealy Tucker) (born 1822)
Rebecca Tucker (age 10) (Missouri) (Rebecca Ann Tucker) (born 1840)
James Tucker (age 9) (Missouri) (James Patterson Tucker) (born 1841)
William Tucker (age 4) (Missouri) (William Jackson Woodsen Tucker) (born 1846)
John Tucker (age 2) (Missouri) (John Thomas Tucker) (born 1848)
Plasant Tucker (age 6 months) (Iowa) (Pleasant Branch Tucker) (born 1849)
Other family members not listed
David Mallory Tucker (born 1843) (died 1843)
Sarah Jane Elizabeth Tucker (born 1844) (died 1845)
David D. Allen Tucker (born 1851)
Dwelling #59
Thaddeus Williams (age 23) (farmer) (Kentucky) (born 1827)
Rebecca Williams (age 29) (Missouri) (Rebecca Jane English Williams) (born 1830)
Elizabeth Williams (age 1) (Iowa) (Elizabeth Jane Williams) (born 1849)
Charles Cowles (age 21) (farmer) (Ohio )
Dwelling #60
Mary Betherds (age 32) (Ohio) (Mary Delong Bethard) (born 1818)
Rebecca Betherds (age 15) (Illinois) (Rebecca Ann Bethard) (born 1835)
James Betherds (age 13) (Illinois) (James Bethard) (born 1837)
Mary E. Betherds (age 8) (Iowa) (Mary Elizabeth Bethard) (born 1839)
Francis Mariono Betherds (age 7) (Iowa) (Francis Marion Bethard) (born 1842)
Sampson Betherds (age 4) (Iowa) (Sampson Bethard) (born 1846)
Sampson Bethard (husband of Mary) (died 1846)
Dwelling #61
George Pool (age 36) (farmer) (England) (George Poole) (born 1810)
Kate Pool (age 35) (Indiana) (Catherine Hoover Poole) (born 1815)
Felix Pool (age 13) (Illinois) (Felix Poole) (born 1838)
John Pool (age 11) (Illinois) (John Poole) (born 1839)
Thomas Pool (age 8) (Illinois) (Thomas Jefferson Poole) (born 1841)
William Pool (age 5) (Illinois) (William Poole) (born 1846)
Caney Pool (age 4) (Iowa) (Cancy Poole) (born 1846)
Maria Pool (age 1) (Iowa) (Maria Poole) (born 1849)
Other family members not listed
America Poole (born 1852)
Dwelling #62
Cornelius McKissick (age 32) (farmer) (Virginia) (Cornelius Washington McKissick) (born 1816)
Hannah McKissick (age 28) (Kentucky) (Hannah Frances Chaney McKissick) (born 1818)
Martha McKissick (age 7) (Iowa) (born 1843)
Alexander McKissick (age 6) (Iowa) (William Alexander McKissick) (born 1844)
John P. McKissick (age 4) (Iowa) (John Pinckney McKissick) (born 1845)
Mary Chaney (age 31) (Kentucky) (born 1820) (sister of Hannah Frances Chaney McKissick)
Dwelling #63
David English (age 31) (farmer) (Kentucky) (David Moore English) (born 1819)
Eliza English (age 29) (Missouri) (Elizabeth Fowler English) (born 1820)
Joseph English (age 4) (Iowa) (Joseph Fowler English) (born 1845)
John English (age 2) (Iowa) (Jonathan W. English) (born 1848)
Dwelling #64
Chauncey Cowles (age 33) (farmer) (New York) (born 1816)
Maria Cowles (age 27) (Ohio) (Mariah Bumgardner Cowles) (born 1822)
Sarah Cowles (age 8) (Ohio) (born 1842)
Delia Cowles (age 7) (Ohio) (Adelia Cowles) (born 1844)
Henry Cowles (age 5) (Ohio) (born 1845)
Charles Cowles (age 3) (Ohio) (Charles C. Cowles) (born 1846)
Harvey Cowles (age 4 months) (Iowa) (born 1850)
Other family members not listed
Welthia Cowles (born 1852)
Andrew Cowles (born 1854)
Dwelling #65
Cynthia Reel (age 39) (Tennessee) (Cynthia Brothers Reel) (born 1805)
Nancy Reel (age 15) (Indiana) (Nancy Jane Reel) (born 1835)
Joseph L. Reel (age 13) (Indiana) (Joseph Luther Reel) (born 1837)
Henry Reel (age 12) (Indiana) (Henry Harrison Reel) (born 1839)
Hiram Reel (age 7) (Missouri) (Hiram Frank Reel) (born 1844)
Martha Reel (age 4) (Iowa) (Martha Catherine Reel) (born 1845)
Other family members not listed
Moses Reel (born 1805) (died 1847)
John Wallace Reel (born 1831)
James Reel (born 1832) (died 1847)
Dwelling #66
Urial B. Cowles (age 24) (farmer) (Ohio) (born 1825)
Mary Jane Cowles (age 23) (Pennsylvania) (born 1828)
Emiline Cowles (age 2) (Pennsylvania) (Emma C. Cowles) (born 1847)
Dwelling #67
Margaret Elerman (age 53) (Pennsylvania) (Margaret Wolverton Moore Eberman) (born 1790)
Nancy Elerman (age 17) (Illinois) (Nancy Maria Moore) (born 1832) (daughter of Abraham Moore and Margaret Wolverton Moore Eberman)
Elizabeth Elerman (age 14) (Illinois) (Elizabeth Penn Eberman) (born 1836)
Eliza Ann Elerman (age 11) (Illinois) (Eliza Ann Eberman) (born 1839)
Other family members not listed
Abraham Moore (born 1781) (died 1833) (husband of Margaret Wolverton Moore Eberman)
John F. Eberman (born 1780) (died 1850)
Dwelling #149
William K. McKissick (age 26) (farmer) (Missouri) (William Kent McKissick) (born 1822)
Martha Ann McKissick (age 22) (Ohio) (Martha Ann Acord McKissick) (born 1828)
Mary McKissick (age 1) (Iowa) (Mary Frances McKissick) (born 1848)
Dwelling #217
John Cooper (age 30) (farmer) (Kentucky) (born 1820)
America Cooper (age 24) (Kentucky) (America Ann Singleton Bruce Cooper) (born 1827)
Hetty Bruce Cooper (age 4) (Missouri) (Hettie Jane Bruce) (born 1845) (daughter of Weston Holmes Bruce and America Ann Singleton Bruce Cooper) (married Jacob McKissick Fletcher)
William Cooper (age 2) (Missouri) (William Weston Bruce) (born 1847) (son of Weston Holmes Bruce and America Ann Singleton Bruce Cooper)
Other family members not listed
Weston Holmes Bruce (born 1819) (died 1849) (husband of America Ann Singleton Bruce Cooper)
1850 U. S. Census, District 21, Pottawattamie County, Iowa
Dwelling #1373Dexter Stillman (age 46) (farmer) (Connecticut) (Dexter Alpheus Stillman) (born 1804)
Barbara Stillman (age 42) (Vermont) (Barbara Redfield Stillman) (born 1808)
Clark Stillman (age 23) (farmer) (New York) (born 1827)
Mary Stillman (age 13) (Ohio) (born 1837)
Elizabeth Stillman (age 10) (Illinois) (born 1840)
Other family members not listed
Franklin Stillman (born 1833) (died 1850)
Dexter Stillman (born 1847) (died 1847)
Dexter was a High Priest. Marched with the Mormon Battalion. Applied for a duplicate land warrant at McKissick Grove. Joined the Cutlerites.
1860 U. S. Census Madison, Fremont County, Iowa
Dwelling #905Antony Bruno (age 47) (farmer) (lower Canada) (Antoine Bruno) (born 1815)
Elisabeth Bruno (age 31) (lower Canada) (Lydia Elizabeth Palmer Bruno) (born 1826)
Antony Bruno, Jr. (age 12) (Iowa) (Anthony Bruno) (born 1847)
Isaac Bruno (age 10) (Iowa) (born 1849)
Flora Bruno (age 8) (Iowa) (Clara Bruno) (born 1851)
Joseph Bruno (age 6) (Iowa) (Josettie Bruno) (born 1853)
Geo. Bruno (age 4) (Iowa) (George Henry Bruno) (born 1855)
Wm. Bruno (age 2) (Iowa) (William M. Bruno) (born 1857)
John Bruno (age 9 months) (Iowa) (John Bruno) (born 1859)
Anthony died in 1866. By the 1870 U. S. Census, Lydia and ten children had moved to Spring City, Sanpete County, Utah.
Other Known Residents
Giles Cowles (born 1827)Lydia Dovener Cowles (born 1821)
Julia E. Cowles (born 1849)
Perry G. Cowles (born 1852)
Anna Cowles (born 1855)
Wesley Raymond Cowles (born 1856)
Sarah Cowles (born 1860)
Most of the family stayed in Fremont County.
Jacob McKissick Fletcher (born 1835) (married Harriet Jane "Hettie" Bruce)
Johnathan Howard Fletcher (born 1832)
Mary Fletcher (born 1830)
Children of Moses Fletcher and Jane Ann McKissick—both deceased. None came west.
James Lewis Thompson (born 1818)
Matilda Delila Willis Thompson (born 1822)
Leah Jane Thompson (born 1840)
Lucy Lucretta Thompson (born 1841)
John Orson Thompson (born 1844)
James Brigham Thompson (born 1848)
Mary Matilda Thompson (born 1850)
Private in Company C of the Mormon Battalion. He applied for a land warrant. The family came to the Salt Lake Valley in the Isaac Bullock Company in 1852.
Possible Births
| Name | Father's Name | Mother's Name | Birth Date |
| Martha McKissick | Cornelius Washington McKissick | Hannah Frances Chaney | 28 Jul 1843 |
| William Alexander McKissick | Cornelius Washington McKissick | Hannah Frances Chaney | 11 Jun 1844 |
| Joseph Fowler English | David Moore English | Elizabeth Fowler | 14 Jul 1845 |
| John Pickney McKissick | Cornelius Washington McKissick | Hannah Frances Chaney | 16 Sep 1845 |
| Sampson Bethard | Sampson Bethard | Mary Delong | 1846 |
| James Woolsey Parman | James Parman | Nancy Comstock | 3 May 1846 |
| John Best McKissick | Daniel McKissick | Melissa Fowler | 10 Oct 1846 |
| Winfield Scott Farmer | Thomas Farmer | Mary Calvin | 13 May 1847 |
| Anthony Bruno, Jr. | Antoine Bruno | Lydia Elizabeth Palmer | 19 Nov 1847 |
| Hannah Jane McKissick | Daniel McKissick | Melissa Fowler | 16 Feb 1848 |
| Jonathan W. English | David Moore English | Elizabeth Fowler | 3 Mar 1848 |
| Augustus Daniel Richards | Milton Richards | Jane Jackson | 23 Jul 1848 |
| Elizabeth Farmer | Thomas Farmer | Mary Calvin | 1849 |
| Maria Poole | George Poole | Catherine Hoover | 1849 |
| Isaac Bruno | Antoine Bruno | Lydia Elizabeth Palmer | 7 Jan 1849 |
| Delilah Isabelle Davis | James Ward Davis | Martha Elizabeth Gordon | 2 Apr 1849 |
| Henry Livermore | Peter Pierre Livermore | Julia LeClaire | 3 Jun 1849 |
| Terrel Kensler | William Kensler | Eustacie LaBoue | 1850 |
| Lavisa Katherine McKissick | Daniel McKissick | Melissa Fowler | 10 May 1850 |
| Zachary Taylor Farmer | Thomas Farmer | Mary Calvin | Nov 1850 |
| Lucy Ellen Richards | Milton Richards | Jane Jackson | 8 Dec 1850 |
| Clara Bruno | Antoine Bruno | Lydia Elizabeth Palmer | 10 Jan 1851 |
| David D. Allen Tucker | William Tucker | Nancy Ann Dealy | 11 Apr 1851 |
| Caleb English | David Moore English | Elizabeth Fowler | 31 Aug 1851 |
| Riley Davis | James Ward Davis | Martha Elizabeth Gordon | 26 Nov 1851 |
| America Poole | George Poole | Catherine Hoover | 16 Jan 1852 |
| Perry G. Cowles | Giles Cowles | Lydia Dovener | 28 Mar 1852 |
| Robert Davis | James Ward Davis | Martha Elizabeth Gordon | 1853 |
| Alameda B. Farmer | Thomas Farmer | Mary Calvin | 1853 |
| Sarah Farmer | Thomas Farmer | Mary Calvin | 22 Dec 1853 |
| Lucinda Davis | James Ward Davis | Martha Elizabeth Gordon | 1854 |
| Marinda Davis | James Ward Davis | Martha Elizabeth Gordon | 1854 |
| Harriet Maud Richards | Milton Richards | Jane Jackson | 12 Jul 1854 |
| George Henry Bruno | Antoine Bruno | Lydia Elizabeth Palmer | 22 Jan 1855 |
| Anna Cowles | Giles Cowles | Lydia Dovener | 21 Mar 1855 |
| Martha Melissa McKissick | Daniel McKissick | Melissa Fowler | 19 Jul 1856 |
| Wesley Raymond Cowles | Giles Cowles | Lydia Dovener | 3 Dec 1856 |
| William M. Bruno | Antoine Bruno | Lydia Elizabeth Palmer | 8 Jan 1857 |
| Martha Angeline Richards | Milton Richards | Jane Jackson | 7 Jan 1858 |
| John Bruno | Antoine Bruno | Lydia Elizabeth Palmer | 1 Oct 1859 |
| Sarah Cowles | Giles Cowles | Lydia Dovener | 15 Jul 1860 |
| Scott Isadore Bruno | Antoine Bruno | Lydia Elizabeth Palmer | 1 Nov 1861 |
| Frederick Bruno | Antoine Bruno | Lydia Elizabeth Palmer | 3 Sep 1863 |
| Robert Dan Bruno | Antoine Bruno | Lydia Elizabeth Palmer | 14 Apr 1865 |
| Charles Norman Bruno | Antoine Bruno | Lydia Elizabeth Palmer | 25 Dec 1866 |