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Subject: Re: Emigration to - and - from Fremont county by 1895.
Date: 4 Jan 2005 10:41:07 -0700


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Surnames: McIntyre, Bussard
Classification: Immigration

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http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/3431.1.1

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Margaret: Since coming across the 1895 record of emigration to Fremont county from within the state, and your response citing those who moved to around the Imogene area, I have been thinking (believe it or not!): The Catholic families that settled around Imogene just did not come close to making up the total for the numbers the census showed. SO-O-O-O, I went back to the original 1895 census and found that the researcher needs to include many others if he is to come up with the correct number of emigrants who came to Fremont county from northeastern Iowa.

In the obituary of Aaron Bussard (which I posted here on Rootsweb's Fremont site on January 20, 2002) it is mentioned that "....In 1875 he moved to Imogene with the western exodus, WHICH AT THAT TIME WAS RAPIDLY POPULATING THIS SECTION...."!!!.....At this time, in 2005, that statement appears to be speaking of something other than the usual "Go West, young man, Go West" type of thing.

I will have to look amongst the theses written by the Iowa history majors at the State University of Iowa--any which were concentrating on the emigration within the state--and see if this intra-Iowa emigration has ever come to their attention. My great grandparents--the Oliver McIntyre family--came to Walnut township in 1870 from Dane county, Wisconsin, and recorded that northeastern Fremont county was mostly virgin prairie at that time. I had always thought they just wanted to be called "pioneers", but maybe NOT! Although land right along Walnut Creek, was settled in the early 1850's, maybe it was quite barren at other places in Walnut and Monroe townships.

Do you have any stories about your family making a farm out of prairie land? Did they come because there was a Catholic church at Imogene? Do you remember any, have you ever heard any kind of reason that they gave for emigrating?

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