The Glenwood Chapter,
NSDAR, has dedicated two historical
markers:
 
The first marker was
erected in the spring of 1952, honoring and
commemorating the early trails across Mills
County, which included the U.S. Dragoons,
Mormons, and stagecoach trails. Edwin Carter
graciously donated a plot of land on Highway
275, east of Glenwood. The marker was placed
on a granite stone which is a native stone
from St. Mary's Township.
In 2002, the marker was moved to Glenwood Lake
Park and rededicated in its new location. |
The second marker was placed at the pioneer
log cabin, which was the home of Jacob and
Valeria Wortman in 1856.
 When Jacob and
Valeria Elliott Wortman and family came to
Mills County in 1856, they settled on a
claim of about 400 acres, that they had
bought in the South Grove neighborhood of
Deer Creek Township. The family built a
small cabin out of walnut logs, which was
about 17 by 18 feet in size. It had a loft
to provide additional sleeping space, since
six of their eleven children, ages 5 to 12,
were with them. It had a stick-and-mud
fireplace.
In 1936, this cabin,
including most of the original logs, was
given to Allen Wortman by Sherman Wortman,
who then owned the family farm. It was
restored and relocated to Paddock Park in
Malvern.
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Grave Markers
Matilda "Hattie" Hanks
Utterback Anthony was born on December 10,
1788, to Abner and Mary Dale Hanks in
Culpepper County, Virginia. Abner
Hanks, like his father John, was a
Revolutionary War soldier. He enlisted in
the Revolutionary Army in April 1780. He was
a private, who served three months in
Captain George Harrison's Virginia Company
and three months in Captain George Sisson's
Virginia Company.
Hattie married Benjamin Utterback on
November 28, 1808, in Woodford County,
Kentucky. They had 12 children.
Benjamin died in 1848 and in 1856 Hattie
married Nicholas Anthony. They had no
children. Hattie died May 5, 1863. She is
buried at the Waubonsie Cemetery in Mills
County, Iowa. A DAR marker was placed
at her gravesite in 2005, by the David City
Chapter, NSDAR, from David City,
Nebraska, with the help of the
Glenwood Chapter, NSDAR. Hattie was a
"real daughter" of a patriot of the
Revolutionary War, but she was not a member
of DAR.
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Real Granddaughter
Miss Emma Leora Kellogg was
born on March 23, 1834, to Rev. Edward
Kellogg and Betsey W. Eastman. She was
a schoolteacher for the Glenwood School in
the late 1800s. Emma applied for membership
in DAR on February 11, 1913, and was the
organizing regent of Glenwood Chapter,
NSDAR, when the chapter was organized on
March 14, 1913.
Emma's grandfather was
Ezekiel Kellogg of New Salem, Massachusetts.
He held a commission in the
Massachusetts Militia for 20 years, being
Major for nine years. He was a
Revolutionary War soldier and
pensioner. On his application for a
pension, he stated that he had moved from
New Salem, Massachusetts, to Bath, New
Hampshire. Later he moved to Lyman, and
finally settled in Littleton in 1815.
On receipt of the intelligence of the
conflict at Lexington, the Company of
Minutemen, to which he belonged, was ordered
to Boston, where he remained through his
eight months enlistment, and then he
returned home.
In August
1776, he was one of the eight men, sent
from his native town to Boston to assist
in building and repairing forts, cannon
batteries, etc, around the harbor,
particularly on Castle Island, where the
fortifications had been destroyed when the
British evacuated the city, March 17,
1776.
In July
1777, when Burgoyne advanced from Canada,
General Schuyler appealed to his own state
and New England for re-enforcements.
About forty men enlisted, under Captain
Ebenezer Goodrich, to join the Northern
Army of which company he was an orderly
sergeant. After reaching the field
of operations, they were employed in
scouting around Forts Ann and Miller and
the surrounding country. They were
in the action of October 7, 1777, after
which the regiment was ordered to take
possession of Fort Edward, in order to
cast off the retreat of Burgoyne, at which
time they had quite an engagement with a
body of Indians and Canadians. After
the surrender of Burgoyne he returned
home.
He was Justice of the Peace
for twenty-one years in New Salem and
represented that town in the legislature
for seven years.
Sources:
“The Kelloggs in the Old World, and the
New,” by Timothy Hopkins, a member of
the New England Historical Society.
"Mass Soldiers and Sailors in the
Revolution," Volume IX, page 5.
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