Show the town of glenwood iowa GLENWOOD GLEN WOOD mills co jan 1 the mormon exodus from Illino illinois lQ took place about thirty years ago their prophet st joe smith had just been nin pia massacred sacred at nauvoo by the who wibo bore them as little good will as years ago did the israelites when the mormons cormons gave up their homes in illinois they turned their faces to the west and started with their families goods aud and chattels in search of or the unknown land of promise they went in small colonies under their own la ladders leaders iders halted here and there to raise fresh supplies plies piles ef or mady many of those cormona were among amunga the earliest settlers of we western ibern iowa and eastern nebraska some of the colonists colonist 8 thought they had found the promised jand land and remained d permanently where they had t ettlel J others only long enouch to raise a crop and moved further west the tile earliest settlement by white people in mill mills county was thus thua effected in the year 1846 by one of these I colonies numbering about t hirty thirty tile the location which they si st lecter was on the keg creek the same rivulet that flows through the town of glenwood about our bur miles north of the tire county I 1 liue j ti e they built themselves bouses and because those houses were rushed up in the twinkling of or an eve eye they called their to town wil wll ru rushville I 1 the town however disappeared as its quickly aa as it arose and all that now nov remains of or this thi 3 the earliest white settlement in the county are ii a few bricks that had been used for the chimneys of the houses and arid a tombstone made of a roughly worked limestone and bearing the following 0 inscription J E EASTMAN ASTMAN died april loth 1817 aged 60 wo are indebted for these interesting facts facia to mr walking of the firm of walker watkins attorneys at law at glenwood Gt enwood mr watkins some years ago passed pasted pass past ed through the piave a and aud n d saw the stone among the inhabitants of glenwood een even the oldest the ve very ry name af rushville bushville has disappeared from memory of the earliest set tiers in buti Rutt rushville iville we are informed that one WM brittain is still alive and aud rp siding in the county in oar oak township the rest all seem to have llave left lert the town of glenwood enwood GJ is ig beautifully situated in the thy valley of the keg creek about three miles west froni fron pacific junction and bix six mliss miles s from the river missouri it is one of the oldest settlements in the county and the second house built in the town iu in 1848 is still standing a little behind the betts belts house most of the earliest eai ear liest settlers here also were mormons cormons Mor mons and the first judge elected in the district was waa a Mormon who originally hailed from the isle of erni JErin it is related of or his honor t that hat during his first session bession a modest member of the bar politely attempt ed to enlighten the court upon some point of law by opening the code and commencing to read but he met with a astern stern rebuke from the bench sit down sir down to h 1 with your coort has the law in his head I 1 wont listen to ye yo at all at all the tho in the meantime grown more numerous informed his honor at the next session es of the court that he had better argit git up and get 12 it is probable t there here was more of th the forriter for titer tiler in re in the argument than of the gua eua ote in modo for ron for his honor instant ly acceded acred cd to the request 10 to lo ar in omaha bee |