DAR Real Daughters are women who were daughters of American Revolutionary War Patriots and members of the DAR. Both of the following ladies joined the Council Bluffs Chapter, NSDAR.

The chapter's first Real Daughter, Susan A. Wood Ostrander, was born June 24, 1817, at Kingsville, near Ashtabula, Ohio, to David Wood and Rebecca (King) Wood. Her father had been an American Revolutionary War soldier, serving as a private then a corporal in Connecticut.  She was married in 1834 near Kingsville, Ohio, to James H. Ostrander. After a few years they moved to northern Indiana and then soon after to Oquawka, Illinois. In 1853, they moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and in 1855 to Audubon County, Iowa, where her husband died in 1881. She possessed a good memory and recalled facts concerning the Black Hawk War, "Log Cabin" campaign, early cars, and the widening of the Erie Canal. Her memory dwelt most vividly, however, upon the incidents of the American Revolutionary War as told to her by her father. She died May 23, 1914, and is buried in the West Liberty Cemetery north of Glenwood, Iowa, in Mills County.

The chapter's second Real Daughter, Martha Ellen Wall Moon Hartford, was born June 30, 1821, in Logan County, Virginia. She was the daughter of William Wall, an American Revolutionary War soldier who served in Virginia under Colonel Francis Taylor. Her first husband, Zimri Moon, died in the 1890s in Buchanan, Michigan. Her second husband, Samuel Hartford, was an American Civil War soldier who served as a private in Captain Mattison's Company, New York Militia. She died January 9, 1910, and is buried in the New Lebanon Cemetery, Cooper County, Missouri.

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