George Glenn, son of Wash Glenn, was born into slavery in March 1850 and raised on the ranch of local cattleman Robert B. "Bob" Johnson. Trained in ranching work and as a trail cook, he chose after emancipation to remain on the Johnson Ranch as a cowhand. In the spring of 1870, he accompanied Johnson on a cattle drive to Abilene, Texas, where Johnson became ill and died. After Johnson's body was placed in a metallic casket and temporarily buried in July 1870, Glenn disinterred it following the sale of the cattle and drove it home in a wagon. After the six-week journey, Johnson was reinterred beside his wife in the Columbus Cemetery. Glenn never returned to Abilene. In 1872, he married Lucy Conner, and they established a homestead in Glidden and had at least one child. He maintained a lifelong friendship with John Edward Folts, a Texas Ranger, cattleman, and Johnson's nephew. Glenn was recognized for the bravery of traveling nearly 800 miles by wagon to bring his employer home. As one of the few African American members of the old trail drivers of Western America, he was honored for his valor at the group's 1924 and 1926 reunions. At the 1924 reunion in San Antonio, Texas author and folklorist J. Frank Dobie interviewed Glenn, preserving his first-hand account of the journey. In 1931, at age 80, Glenn died of pneumonia at his home in Glidden. He is remembered for bravery and loyalty as an example of the hard-working trail drivers of the late nineteenth century.