The following people voted in the first election in Bosque County on Aug. 7, 1854: L. H. Scrutchfield, J. K. Helton, J. N. Mabray, Capt. Underhill, James Mabry, Wm. Gary, Gafey Gary, Isaac Gary, Matt Gary, John Robertson, John Thomas, F. M. Kell, Archie Kell, Wm. McCurry, Jack McCurry, Lam McCurry, Samuel Locker, Nathaniel Morgan, R. S. Barnes, and J. P. Locker. Though there were a number of Norwegians living in Bosque County at the time of this first election, none were able to vote because they had not been in America long enough to become naturalized citizens.
A partial list of the first settlers of Bosque County was engraved on a pink granite marker placed in Pool Park in 1926 by the Pioneers of Bosque County to honor those early Bosque pioneers. The park is located 4½ miles south of Clifton on Hwy. 6. The partial list is as follows:
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John Abney, Britt Adams, Col. Icabod Adams, Sylvester Adams, Joseph Alexander, T.C. Alexander, Nancy Anderson, T.W. Archibald, Ole Arneberg, J.R. Arnold, Dr. A.M. Barnet, Col. S. Buck Barry, C.C. Barry, Dr. W.L. Bateman, Charlie Becktill, John Biffle, Isaac Billingsley, Lewis Bowman, Silas Brawley Bowman, Andrew Bretta, Mrs. Anna Bronstad, P.M. Browning, Saml. Burch, Jack Calhoun, A.D. Callahan, Lon Callahan, Neill Canuteson, O.A. Canuteson, Ole Canuteson, Canute Canuteson, Wm. Carton, A.W. Childress, C.F. Clabaugh, T.D. Claggett, Capt. Frank Collier, Ovee Colwick, William Cope, Jno. W. Cox, W.M. Cox, L. Craddock, Erasmus Cranfill, Henry Cunningham, Elijah Cutbirth, Hendrick Dahl, J. Dansby, Jacob De Cordova, Mrs. Louisa Dennis, Paul Downing, Wm. Ellington, Ewell Everett, Thomas Everitt, W. Haney Everitt, A.J. Ferris, J.W. Fields, T.C. Ford, T.J. Ford, R.T. Fort, Henry Fossett, Levi Fowler, J.C. Frazier, Moses W. Fuller, Frank M. Gandy, H.M. Gaston, A.J. George, E.B. George, Wm. Glass, Mrs. Nancy Goodall, Pleasant Goodall, Jno. A. Goodlett, W.S. Gouldy, H.S. Grann, Mrs. Nancy Greer, E.B. Griffin, Wm. Hall, Harvey Hamby, John Hamby, John S. Hanna, H.J. Hanson, J.A. Harris, Richard Jeffer Hart, John Harvey, M.B. Hendrix, Robert A. Hester, Harrison D. Hill, S.T. Hill, A.F. Hines, Stinson Holloway, W.H. Holloway, A. Holverson, Phillip Howard, J.E. Howell, Jack Hunter, Riley Irvin, D. Frank James, Johnie James, Jens Jensen, James Jenson, J.H. Johnson, John Johnson, Otto J. Johnson, William L. Jones, W.T. Kemp, J.J. King, Rena Knight, James Lane, William Lay, J.S. Lee, Dr. H.L. Little, Charles Logan, Sod Lot, W.H. Maples, George W. Martin, Silas McCabe, Neal McDonnell, Jas McSpadden, R.C. Miller, Wm. Miller, W.C. Mitchell, William B. Moore, Abraham Myers.
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Bergete Naadland, B.H. Neely, E.S. New, S.S. Nichols, Greenville Norris, J.D. Odle, John Odle, E.J.W. Ogden, Joseph Olson, Lars Olson, Ole Olson, Omen Omleson, Paul Paulson, John Payne, A.C. Pearce, John Z. Pearson, Christopher Pederson, Andrew Pettit, John Pettit, Ole Pierson, Tom Pollard, J.B. Pool, C.A. Poulson, G.S. Powell, Carl Questad, Jos. Ragsdale, Thomas Ragsdale, A.Y. Reeder, Mrs. Darcos Reeder, Silvester Newt Renfro, W. Warren Richards, William B. Richards, J.L. Rierson, Jens Ringness, J.C. Roberts, L.B. Robertson, Daniel Robinson, Berger Rogstad, Dr. W.H. Russell, Ben Scott, S.I.M. Scott, Nathan Screws, A.W. Sears, W. Rush Sedberry, Andrew Skimland, Knud Skimland, J.J. Smith, Joseph Smith, Ephraim Snell, J.H. Snider, Phillip Snouts, Dr. W.E. Spaldling, Ben Sparks, Jacob Speer, Temple Spivey, Israel Standifer, John Standifer, Mrs. J.H. Stark, John C. Steen, Wm. Stidham, J.A. Stinnett, B.C. Swenson, Archimedes Terrell, David Thompson, Silas Thompson, Silvester Thompson, James Timms, Walter Timms, Henry Tuggle, J.L. Walker, Samuel J. Wallace, Jno. H. Walling, George Waters, Ole Ween, Tom West, Elisha White, R.O. White, B.T. Whitehead, Brooks Willingham, John Wintz, Ole Wold, R.M. Womack, J.B. Wood, James Wood, and Thomas Wylie.