Individual Details

Monroe, April 8. Bonner Wentz, it is alleged, shot and killed his cousin, William Wentz, five miles north of Monroe, in Goose Creek township, this morning at 7 o'clock. The dead man was 30 years old and leaves a wife and five children. Bonner Wentz is single and is 25 years of age. Both men had been called in the army service and an argument relative to the filling out of questionnaires contributed to the killing, it is said, but here had been further ill feeling in regard to rental of land. Both men are well known and the cruel manner in which the killing was done has aroused some feeling. Bonner Wentz, it is alleged, met his cousin at a well where he had gone for a bucket of water and after a few harsh words drew an automatic pistol and shot William five times, killing him instantly and immediately making his escape. The wife and children of the dead man were the eyewitnesses.
Greensboro Daily News, April 9, 1918

Birth	22 Jun 1888	Mecklenburg County, NC
Marriage	7 Jun 1909	Jessie Aleene FURR
Death	8 Apr 1918	Union County, NC
Burial		Emmanuel Cemetery, Monroe, Union County, NC

Spouse	Jessie Aleene FURR (1892 - 1979)
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Living
Child	Living

Father	Simon Peter WENTZ Jr. (1852 - 1926)
Mother	Martha Agnes "Mattie" FURR (1857 - 1934)
Sibling	Francis WENTZ (1878 - )
Sibling	Julia Petra WENTZ (1880 - )
Sibling	Muriel WENTZ (1883 - )
Sibling	Carrie WENTZ (1884 - )
Sibling	Daniel WENTZ (1886 - )
Sibling	Sam J. WENTZ (1892 - )
Sibling	George WENTZ (1893 - )
Sibling	Lewis WENTZ (1899 - )
Sibling	Lonie WENTZ (1899 - )