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October 2016

Wentz Family – Ghost Story
Wentz Family – Ghost Story

Community Memories, History Tidbits, People

Wentz Family – Ghost Story

Heritage Center2024-04-10T19:31:59-07:00October 29th, 2016|Categories: Community Memories, History Tidbits, People|Tags: 21st Infantry, Ann Potter, Benton County, Cemetery, Civil War, Civil War Veteran, Cloverdale Rd., D.M. Morris, eleven children, Enchanted Way, Ft. Hall, German immigrant, Ghost, Hudson Bay Company, Idaho, Lewis Wentz, Mormon wagon train, Ohio 5th Co. Cavalry, Oregon Burial Site Guide, Oregon Trail, pioneer woman, Salt Lake City, trading post, Willamette Valley Vineyards, William Johnston|

The story played out in a brief succession of news articles in 1892. Eyewitness accounts. Ghost siting reported on the Wentz farm about 10 [...]

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May 2015

May 28, 1915

Heritage Center2016-10-20T14:55:53-07:00May 28th, 2015|Categories: World War I in Marion County|Tags: Charles Edward Russell, Civil War Veteran, Eric P. Bolt, GAR, Grand Army of the Republic, R.C. Halley, Sedgewick Post No. 10, Willamette University|

by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent From the pages of The Daily Capital Journal: FRENCH TAKE TRENCHES AFTER FIERCE CHARGE Artillery Fire Drives Germans From [...]

May 28, 1915

by Richard van Pelt, WWI Correspondent From the pages of The Daily Capital Journal: FRENCH TAKE TRENCHES AFTER FIERCE CHARGE Artillery Fire Drives Germans From [...]