Comments on: A Hero of the Iowa 7th: Lieutenant Colonel Augustus Wentz http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/sc/2011/11/11/a-hero-of-the-iowa-7th-lieutenant-colonel-augustus-wentz/ Myths and Mysteries, Hysterical Histories, and Tree-Kickin' Genealogy Tue, 14 May 2013 16:12:20 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: SCblogger http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/sc/2011/11/11/a-hero-of-the-iowa-7th-lieutenant-colonel-augustus-wentz/comment-page-1/#comment-16505 SCblogger Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:48:27 +0000 http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/sc/?p=3108#comment-16505 Currently we are able to trace Rebecca McMurtrey Wentz as far as 1870. She married a Samuel Jones in Dubuque, Iowa in 1865.

By 1870 she is Rebecca Jones living with Samuel, his daughter Laura, and her son Frank Wentz in Richland, Marshall County, Illinois.

After that Rebecca disappears along with Samuel and Laura. We find Frank Wentz in 1880 living in Salem, Dent County, Missouri. We know members of the McMurtrey (McMurtry) family also lived there including Rebecca’s mother. – Amy D.

]]> By: F Dean Simpson http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/sc/2011/11/11/a-hero-of-the-iowa-7th-lieutenant-colonel-augustus-wentz/comment-page-1/#comment-16332 F Dean Simpson Fri, 20 Apr 2012 19:31:57 +0000 http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/sc/?p=3108#comment-16332 To ‘Amy D.’ who posted this article…Thank You.

I am the great-great grandson of Augustus Wentz. Not much was known about the family because his son — Frank Wentz — died when his kids were young. Little information was passed along through the family.

If anyone knows what happened to Rebecca Wentz; I would appreciate being contacted.

Thank you again.

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