(For the Gazette.)

At A special meeting of the Directors of the Oakdale Cemetery Company, held April 1^st, on motion of H. Price, Esq., a resolution was passed to appropriate circle No. 2 in Oakdale Cemetery for a military burying ground of the soldiers of Scott county, Iowa, fallen in battle, and the Cemetery Company subscribe twenty-five dollars towards the payment of said ground.

It was also resolved that suitable ground be donated to Mrs. Rebecca Wentz for the interment of her husband, Lt. Col. Wentz, on which an appropriate monument is to be forthwith erected.

Subscriptions towards the purchase of the ground and the erection of a monument on Circle No. 2, have already been made to the amount of over one hundred dollars, and it is hoped by the liberality of citizens of this city and county sufficient may be raised to erect a suitable monument to adorn the spot selected for the final resting place of the patriotic dead.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, April 2, 1862, p. 1

Monument To Col. Wentz

Messrs. McCosh and Donahue, marble cutters, have just finished a beautiful monument to the memory of Lieut. Col. Wentz, which is to be placed over his grave in Oakdale Cemetery.  It consists of two bases supporting a die and obelisk, the latter crowned with a cap and surmounted by an urn.  On the front to the obelisk a sword and laurel wreath are appropriately sculptured.  On the die is the epitaph, as follows:

“AUGUSTUS WENTZ,

Lieut. Col. of the 7^th Iowa Regiment, born

August 22, 1827, in Koenigsbach, Grand

Dutchy of Baden, Germany; was kill-

ed in the battle of Belmont, November 7, 1861.”

On the base are a few lines – the offering of a companion in arms.  The whole work is elaborately executed, and indicates that we have artists here fully capable of commemorating in enduring marble the virtues of our friends and neighbors.  There is no need whatever of going abroad for any work of this kind, for our marble cutters, especially those mentioned above, evince as much taste in their choice of designs, and skillfulness in executing as those of any part of the country.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, March 31, 1862, p. 1