George Washington Wilhem was born in Kentucky to John Wilhelm and Elizabeth Pistol- I have very interesting facts about that, by the way, but I want to save that information for his own entry. This entry will be about the offspring of my great great grandfather George Washington Wilhelm, so that hopefully I find more cousins to share and get information from. I do have more information on George, it’s just going to be in its own entry.
I am putting down only down to the great grandchildren on this blog. If you want to see the great great grandchildren and further down to the children born of this generation, you can request access to my tree which will allow you to view our cousins, after I verify you are indeed a cousin.
All these people below are minimum 2nd cousins (or 1st cousin once removed) and the unlisted people (their children) are all 3rd cousins to each other if we go up to George Wilhelm as our common ancestor. So we’ve got a big family! I’m hoping to reconnect and figure out who has pictures of my great uncles and great aunts and you can view my tree to see pictures that were already sent to me by my 3rd cousins. (If we share a great grandparent, we're actually 2nd cousins, for example, if we both go up to Lowern Wilhelm, you and I are miminum 2nd cousins, or 1st cousins once removed)
George Wilhelm
Father of:
Via first wife Albina Wilhelm (married December 28, 1877) (Albina, daughter of Francis M Wilhelm)
1879 Baby Girl Wilhelm in Loutre, Montogermery County, Missouri
1880 Minnie Wilhelm, Loutre, Missouri
1885 Grant Wilhelm, Loutre, Missouri
Via second wife Mary Daniels (married August 31, 1891)
1893 Arthur Wilhelm, Poplar Bluff, Missouri
1896 Homer Wilhelm, Poinsett County, Arkansas
Via third wife, Celia Bell McCullough/Erwin/Coker/Putman, married June 1, 1902, Batavia, Arkansas, in Terrapin Creek Road area
Baby boy 1904, Terrapin Creek area
Lowern April 1, 1906, Wiley’s Cove, Arkansas (now Leslie)
Aline December 21, 1908, Leslie, AR
Thelma February 10, 1910
Lee May 13, 1912
He then buries his son Grant in 1917 in Olvey, Boone, Arkansas and he is the one who filled out the death certificate, with Grant’s correct mother. The other children have many documents incorrectly identifying Celia as their mother. They must have been close for them to say she’s mother on marriage certificates, birth announcements, obituaries, and such. But she was just their stepmother.
The children’s information:
Baby Girl, I found no record of her birth and no record of if she died. She appears on the census as a baby girl, so she was living at least 10 months. She may have grown up. However, I haven’t found anything about her. She did not go with her dad with her brothers when George remarried. It is a mystery what happened to this little girl. She had a baby sister just 10 months younger than her, Minnie. As her baby sister had a name, Minnie, on the census, maybe Baby was her actual name. It happens. She does not appear in the Montgomery Co birth records, only clue is that Minnie is Albina’s second pregnancy.
Minnie Wilhelm, born 1880, appearing on census as a newborn, 0/12 mo old, in Loutre, Missouri, with her father George Washington and her mother Albina. I have many Minnie Wilhelm with an exact birthdate of 1880 in Missouri, but none match. There is a George Wilhelm with a daughter Minnie born in St Louis, but the wife is a different name, so it’s a coincidence, not the correct one. I also haven’t found what happened to Baby and Minnie Wilhelm, born 1879 and 1880. She does appear in the Montgomery Co records as a 2nd birth to the mother, “Ellina” Wilhelm, but when I looked at the handwriting, it’s surely Albina, mistranscripted as Ellina. I did not find “Baby Wilhelm” in any of the death rolls for Montgomery Co, Missouri. But in the 1880s, it’s not uncommon for parents to simply dig up a grave and bury their own babies privately without notifying anyone.
Grant Wilhelm was born July 12, 1885 in Loutre, Missouri. That wasn’t easy to find out, by the way! Library has Montgomery Co History books with birth records, the same one Minnie appears in. He was the 3rd birth to “Ellire” Wilhelm, but the handwriting looks like it’s meant to be Albina, and the father is “CW”, meant to be GW. Grant married Fannie Hoover on September 29, 1905 and then they had one daughter, Ernestine Wilhem, born May 6, 1907. His wife, Fannie, died before 1910, as he is widowed on the census with a toddler daughter. The confusing thing is Ernestine also appears on the 1910 census at her maternal grandfather’s home. Grant then marries Fannie’s sister Flora Horner/Harner October 9, 1911. I have not found any children born to this couple, however, Flora appears in the census as having a baby girl born around 1912… Maybe Grant’s daughter too? I have no proof, so I’m not listing Jewell Wilhelm’s children here. Grant works as a foreman at the cooperage. The same cooperage that his baby brother later burns down. Grant got pneumonia and he was sick for 10 days before passing away at 31 years old on February 21, 1917. He is buried in a cemetery lost to time in the Olvey area of Boone County, Arkansas. If anyone knows of a cemetery up in that area, let me know.
Grant Wilhelm, m Fannie Hoover
Ernestine Wilhelm born 1907
Marries Robert Lee Phillips 1924
Ralph Phillips, January 16, 1926-1993 (an accountant)
Melvin Ray Phillips May 10, 1928-Dec 31, 1997 (an helicopter mechanic)
Robert Lee Phillips jr June 19, 1933-
Mary A Phillips 1937-2018
Muriel Dean Phillips February 6, 1942-2013
Gerald Dean Phillips February 6, 1942-2019
(Then they all moved to San Joaquin, California)
Grant Wilhelm, m. Flora Horner.
Possibly Jewell Wilhelm… Not digging into her until I have more proof.
Arthur Wilhelm, born April 7, 1893 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri and died July 23, 1973 in Marshall, Arkansas. He lived in Russelville, AR from 1927 to 1954 working at the cooperage mill and helping manage the German POWs put to work there. His first wife died after giving birth to their daughter Mamie, and succumbed to pneumonia complications
Married Mamie Bratton December 13, 1913 when he was 20 and she was 13. I double checked the ages, the birth certificates, and all that, she really was that young when she married Arthur. She died at just 19 years old.
Irene Wilhelm born August 21, 1915, died July 1983 in Los Angeles She considered Flossie Rooch her mother, so that must mean she probably didn’t remember her biological mother growing up. She put herself through beauty school and had her own parlor by age 24 in Russellville, Arkansas in 1940. She moves to Los Angeles, then ends up in Massachusetts married. She’s then listed as deceased in July 1983, but there’s no grave.
Maymie Wilhelm January 1919, clue is in census and the fact her mother’s death certificate states pneumonia as complication of childbirth. However, I can’t find Maymie/Mama/Mammie/etc anywhere after she’s on the 1940 census as a 21 year old, single. However, I haven’t found her grave either. The confusing thing is there’s a Maymie Wilhelm, but that’s wife of her brother Arthur Leon, not the same person as this Maymie. And she was also born the same year, but in March 1919 as Mamie Mears.
Arthur’s second wife is Flossie Rooch, 1900-1984 and they had the following children:
Arthur Leon Wilhelm, 1920-1978
Married Mamie Mears, often mixed up with above Maymie.
Millard Lloyd Wilhelm, 1924-2009, Hot Springs area
Mildred Wilhelm 1924-??
Lavada Mae Wilhelm
5. Homer Wilhelm, October 6, 1896-February 13, 1950, worked as a railroad builder and miner He moved to Baxter Springs, Kansas shortly after his father George “disappeared/died” and it appears his children all stayed around in that area.
I. He marries Mabel Oney Still and i have connected with a cousin who is the granddaughter of Homer, and she was able to give me confirmed information on Homer's grandchildren. Thank you Dona Jo.
Wilburn Howard Wilhelm 1918-1983
Willie Jo Wilhelm 1925-2005
Leva Iona Wilhelm 1931-1993
Carol Sue Wilhelm 1940-1996
7. Lowern Owen Wilhelm 1906-1941 in Boone County, Arkansas
Marries Eva Nola Bell Seamon
Arminta Lou Wilhelm
Betty Jean Wilhelm 1929--1999
Iii. Oma Lea/Lee Wilhelm (She changed Lea to Lee in 1951) 1929-2006
Iv: Ramona Bell Wilhelm 1931-2011
8. Dorothy Aline Wilhelm 1908-1995
Married “Red” Smothers
Corene Smothers 1939-1992
Charlene Smothers 1940-2013
9. Thelma Alberta Wilhelm 1910-1962
Married Howell, Moore, and Young.
James Asburn Howell 1929-2015 (Pastor in Hindsville, AR)
Gene Howell 1932-1952
10. Lee Wilhelm May 13, 1912 - June 20, 1964
Married Dessie Farmer
They had only one daughter that I know of.
Celestine June Wilhelm 1934-2003
There it is, all of the great grandchildren of George Washington Wilhelm.
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