Isaac Franklin McCullough

 Isaac McCullough 

There’s two Isaac McCulloughs- Isaac McCullough, the deaf one from Springfield, MO and Isaac McCulley/McCullia, the hearing one from Kansas City, both served in the 6th Division, but one was in the 6th Division STATE militia and the other was in the 6th Regiment, Company D then switched to Company AR.

For a few days, I myself got them mixed up and was thinking my Isaac abandoned my great great grandmother Nettie before great grandmother Celia was born, but I see now that it’s actually two different people with the same name, the same birth month, same birth year. But if you go back in the census, you’ll find Isaac McCulla/McCullia/McCulley in Kansas City area then Daviess County (near Kansas City) after the war while Isaac McCullough/Muckhollow/McCullia is found in the school for the deaf rolls at the same time that the other Isaac was in Kansas City schools, one is son of Wiley McCullough and the other is son of FT McCullough. FT is also mislabeled as Wiley at times. When I followed the censuses, I saw that it’s two different families. 

I am still untangling the mess that has all the variations on the surname McCullough, but here are the facts I have. 

Isaac Franklin McCullough was born on New Year’s day 1846, in Randolph County, Missouri. I need to track down his birth record. I got this information from his School for the Deaf papers. Then I found him on the census, thankfully the census specifically documents his deafness so it’s no question his parents are Wiley B McCullough and Charlotte Bedwell, both from Tennessee.

Then he is on the 1850 Census living in Nodaway County, Missouri, which is north of Kansas City, but the same year, the other Isaac appears on his own family’s census inside the city limits of Kansas City. 

In 1860, they’re moved even closer to Kansas City in Holt County, Missouri, but the same year, the other McCullough family is running a boarding house in Kansas City.  The OTHER Isaac enlists in 1860 into the state militia, aged 13. Whereas our Isaac is found enrolling into the Missouri Aslyum of Deaf and Dumb on January 13, 1861, aged 14. 

Then our Isaac appears in the 1861-1862 school year rolls at the Asylum for the Deaf Dumb. I hate that word by the way. It is now, thankfully, called the Missouri School for the Deaf. Just Deaf.  The generals orders all schools to be closed down in the union and all ablebodied teachers to come help with the war and any students can volunteer if they desire. Contrast this with the Confederacy ordering all asylums to remain open and all teachers/doctors/nurses in these asylums to be exempt from being ordered into service. Anyways, so the Missouri School for the Deaf never got to officially open for the 1862-1863 year. 

That’s when we find Isaac F McCullough enlisting into the Union in Callaway, Missouri, United States on August 14, 1862. I imagine that was when the school year was supposed to open. The school is located in Callaway County, explaining why he did not enlist near his home when his brothers enlisted into the Confederacy. 

Isaac’s job was a teamster and he was in active duty from August 14, 1862 to July 5, 1867-  He was ages 16 to 21. Not the young soldier like the other Isaac. Still pretty young. He went into Company D, Missouri 6th Regiment and left Company D on October 22, 1863 to switch to Company AR. This puzzled me until I found that his higher up started a mutiny and apparently Isaac wanted no part of this. https://ehistory.osu.edu/books/official-records/032/0713

Enlistment card: 

6th Regiment, Missouri Cavalry under William Crockett

Company D 

M390 roll 31

Isaac F Muckullow 

22 years old

5 ft 9 in

fair complexion 

blue eyes 

Hair color (can't read the handwriting) 

Born in Randolph Co, Missouri 

Mustered out July 5, 1867 from Company AR

under captain Wright of Arkansas

Disabled (Deaf)   

If you want to go to Fold3 and look it up maybe you can decipher the handwriting of his hair color? 

Here’s where he went in the Civil War.  He was a teamster. He was responsible for doing supply runs- hard work, the wagons likely got stuck in mud, being weighed down with munitions, food rations, water, and such. From what I found, he did not get sent into battles, but he may have faced battles with them trying to stop the supply trains from getting where he was trying to go. The information on his specifics are sparse. I had to search the rolls of each battle for a checklist next to his name to see if he was there or not. That’s why I am not listing all the battles the 6th regiment was involved in, because it’s doubtful he was actually in every single one, having been sent away on supply runs. 

Wilson’s Creek 

No information on his role 

Carthage

July 5, 1861

No  information on his role. 

 Pea Ridge 

March 6, 1862 - March 8, 1862

No information on his role

Prairie Grove 

December 7, 1862 

Isaac’s specific duties was to bring the wagon loaded down with more rifles and supplies to James Blunt (Here’s James Blunt’s page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G._Blunt) and there’s a book based on the fact there were young teenagers in battle- this book

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifles_for_Watie It is NOT about Isaac, just the fact that there were teenagers involved in the civil war. 

When he got the wagon to where it needed to go, Blunt explained to the boys (including Isaac) that the confederates were circling back to block the incoming troops from Springfield, MO and he sent a letter with them to give them an heads up, and it was successful, the incoming 6th regiment took the long way around to surprise them. The rest of the battle is here- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Prairie_Grove   But from what I understand, teamsters usually got out of there when actual battles began to bring the supplies elsewhere and guarding their supplies. 

July 4, 1863 Battle of Helena 

I do not have information on his role there. 

Duty at Springfield and in Southwest Missouri till July, 1865. Mustered out July 18, 1865.

In 1870, he is found living with his parents, just his parents, no siblings, in Springfield, Missouri. At this time Jenettia’s father was the stagecoach driver doing runs up to Springfield, Missouri and back to Boone County, Arkansas areas. This is likely how Jenettia and Isaac met.  Isaac McCullough and Jenettia Bell Coker married June 15, 1879. 

In 1879, I suspect Isaac used his father’s name to apply for land and the government granted him land from Round Mountain to Piney Mountain to Kennedy Mountain. I wonder if this includes Terrapin Creek Road, as this is where Celia lost her first husband and would make sense why the family all had this land. In the 1880s, it was illegal for Deaf to buy anything, that’s why he used his father’s name to do that. It wouldn't have mattered that he’s a veteran, I think? Maybe he told people he lost his hearing in the war? The land officially became his on February 17, 1881, but confusing thing is it didn’t get handed to him, it went to the Coker family. However, if he died, that would make sense. I can’t get the full land records from the national archives due to Covid-19 precautions. I do plan to order these records when things open up again. 

This was in Isaac's possession to deliver to a family in Springfield as proof they are owed

money from the government for supplying the soldiers

The back of his enrollment card stating where he signed up,

thus it is the same man as the deaf Isaac in the cavalry.

Isaac's enrollment record

Another letter that Isaac delivered to Springfield from the battlefields.

Another letter delivered by Isaac

Isaac's proof he was at Prairie Grove

     Isaac's proof he was at Pea ridge

Isaac's card from Wilson Creek

Mustering out card

Census- note the "Deaf" column

Again, census note the Deaf column

Jenettia and Isaac's marriage record

This is the back of the letter all the deaf teenagers signed in place of swearing in orally

    Reference card for Isaac, a gateway to get to the other cards marking presence at battles

Another reference after Isaac switched from Company D

From Battle of helena

Letter to the president from the citizens the battle was destorying

The back of the letter

As for where his grave went… well, look at Celia’s husband Lewis Putman. His body was never recovered from the freak flash flood Terrapin Creek had in 1903 (Celia is Isaac’s daughter). There were many cemeteries moved to make way for the lakes, that could be another hint where his body went. 

In the 1880 Census, which was taken in the fall, Jenettia is listed as a widow and Celia Bell McCullough was born March, 1881. I am still looking for solid information on his death. There were stories in the Crooked Creek Missionary Notes that JM Coker’s son in law got lost in the winter doing a stagecoach run for him. There’s another note that he also drowned in the Terrapin Creek which is confusing to me because it’s a dry creek most of the time. I hope there’s a way to find records of flash floods in that area to see if the timing fits.

George Washington Wilhelm

George Washington Wilhelm

about 1900, about 50 years old 

George Washington Wilhelm was born May 15, 1853 near the Nolin furnace

(now underwater) in Edmonson County, Kentucky, son of Joh. Wilhelm

and Elizabeth Pistol. He had two brothers, John Wilhelm and

Jessie Burris Wilhelm and his brothers were born near the Mammoth cave.

Yes, THAT Mammoth Cave! Apparently in the 1840s and 1850s,

they had this ‘hospital’ meant for tuberculosis patients as an experiment

and in the brutal winter, families went to the cave to give birth

so they could be sure things would stay warm. There was a hotel inside

that cave and is likely where his brothers were born, nowhere near the

TB patients. Their home was plowed over to create Great Onyx Job Corps Center campus

(I don’t understand what it is, but it is inside the Mammoth Cave National Park).

One day I will travel to Mammoth Cave and see if they have photos in

their archives of homes before they dismantled/plowed them over. Maybe

George Wilhelm’s childhood home is among the pictures.

Nolin furnace is now a state park as well. The cool thing about that is that

means their birthplaces will still essentially look the same as at the time they

were born.  His family helped make munitions for the civil war at the Nolin Iron Furnace,

although on the census they are listed as farmers, specifically, sorghum farmers.

 

A close up of his birth record- this is how I know he was born where he was born. 

This is how things looked at the cave when he was born. 

Sorghum is a cane you boil down into syrup, like molasses. They sold their crops to the Songster family, which sold jugs of sorghum. I am on the hunt for a jug from this company so I can have a piece of family history. Pictured below.

In 1860, George’s parents moved the family to Millerstown, Grayson County, Kentucky. Maybe to be closer to the company they were selling their sorghum to. I don’t know, but that is my best guess. Also, in 1857, the Croghan family started buying up the surrounding land around the cave itself to start a touring service. They got a good deal and were able to harvest their crops before moving and starting a new crop in Millerstown. 

When George was a teenager, hordes of grasshoppers ruined all the crops around. So farming wasn’t something that looked sustainable to a teenagered George, so he apprenticed to learn how to make ties (the wooden planks that goes underneath railroad tracks) and went deep into the woods to cut down lumber to create the ties with. He learned from William Scott for at least 5 years, but more likely ten years, from 1865 to 1875. His parents still stuck with farming sorghum- that’s another story for their own entry. However, you can read more here. https://www.historynet.com/1874-the-year-of-the-locust.htm

An interesting tidbit… George heard all about the very first Kentucky Derby, maybe even attended it as he was in the area the very first time they ran the races. I wonder if he was interested in all that, hmm.

George married Albina Wilhelm on December 27, 1877 , daughter of

Francis M Wilhelm and Jane Sebastian. The confusing thing is Albina has a brother

named John too, the same age as George’s brother. In familysearch, people are mistakenly

merging John M., son of Joh. and Elizabeth Wilhelm and John W., son of Francis M and Jane

Sebastian as the same person. It’s a mess to untangle. I still need to trace both further back to

see if George and Albina are cousins or just 2 people with the same surname. Anyways, back to George.. 

George and Albina departed from Kentucky at this train depot. 

After he married Albina, they took the Paducah train from Leitchifield, KY to Paducah, KY.

From there, they took one of the Anchor Line steamboats up to Saint Louis, then up the

Missouri River to Hermann. This was a very dangerous trip. I found a link about it-

https://www.kcur.org/talk-show/2015-07-14/steamboat-travel-was-dirty-and-dangerous-especially-on-the-missouri-river 

From Hermann, Missouri to Loutre, Missouri, I don’t have information, but there were stagecoaches

and such. I assume that’s one way they got around. They settle down and have two daughters

that apparently don’t make it to adulthood as there aren’t any records of Baby Boy Wilhelm (actual name

of their daughter. Verified in Montogomery County church records. They named a daughter "baby boy")

and Minnie Wilhelm past 1890. They have a son, Grant, on July 12, 1885 while still living in Loutre,

Montgomery County, Missouri. I don’t know what happened to Albina. I assume she passed away. 

 George W Wilhelm married Mary Daniels on August 31, 1891 in Poinsett County, Arkansas. (The marriage record was indexed, I can’t access the actual scanned image to find her parents’ names) The only reason I have her as Homer and Arthur’s mother is because of the timing of marriage. Celia is too young to be Homer and Arthur’s mother, but she is listed as their mother in their obituary, but I haven’t found their actual death certificates.  

George and Mary’s son is born in Popular Bluff, Missouri- Arthur Wilhelm is born on April 7, 1893. Then they’re back in the place of their marriage license- Poinsett County, Arkansas, Homer Lowern/Lavern Wilhelm is born October 8, 1896. So George was definitely in Poinsett County, just somehow not on the census. I assume Mary Daniels also passed away, making George a widow twice over. During this time, George also changed from making railroad ties to clearing land for people. He already learned how to cut down wood and all that, but I’m assuming with his age, arthritis set in and it was more difficult to be precise, which the railroad requires. He would strike up partnerships. In 1890s, he had a deal with the Chapman Dewey Sawmill in Poinsett County to take the lumber he cleared off the land of people who hired him.

I have no information on why he left Poinsett County and ended up in Boone County, but that’s

where he met Celia Putman, a very young widow that lost her husband in a freak flash flood.

He drowned in the Terrapin Creek (capps/batavia area).  George Wilhelm marries Celia on June 1, 1902

and Celia becomes a stepmother to Grant, Homer, and Arthur, then in 1903 they lose a baby.

Sex unknown. It’s the baby laid to rest in Coker cemetery near the corner.

George moved his sons in with Celia at her Terrapin Creek road home near the Coker Cemetery.

The view there was incredible- a huge bald rock towering over the land. I don’t know the name of this

“mountain”, but I’m sure it has a name. There is another freak flash flood and they decide to abandon

the area and they moved to Wiley’s Cove

April 1, 1906, George welcomes son with Celia, Lowern Wilhelm, and then 3 more after Lowern-

Dorothy Aline December 21, 1908, Thelma Alberta February 24, 1910, and Lee 1912…  Wiley’s Cove

is now called Leslie, Arkansas. 

 in 1910, George W. Wilhelm was a 40 year old land clearer, with a partnership with the cooperage,

with his 30 year old wife Celia B. Wilhelm and their children, Grant, age 22, Arthur, age 17, Homer,

age 13, Loren O, age 5, Alene, age 1, and “baby”, in Olyphant, Arkansas.  His son, Arthur, starts making

ties and soon Homer also makes ties as well. 

I then looked at the census of 1920 and I found George W. Wilhelm, his wife Celia, and their children,

Lowern, Alean, Thelma, and Lee in Wiley's Cove, Arkansas. George's occupation is a land clearer.

I looked at Olyphant's history and Wiley's Cove history to figure out why George moved his family.

I started researching Olyphant between 1910 to 1920. I found that the state of Arkansas had declared

Horseshoe Bend Lake as a natural forest. Aha! No more job for a landclearer. Makes perfect sense. 

He was a land clearer. So towns would sell parcels or lots of land to people for building houses on.

I haven’t found anything to clearly state WHO paid George- did the town of Harrison and Leslie pay

George to clear off the hills and get them ready for being built on, or did people buy parcels of land

and then hire George to clear their parcels? Either way, George specifically cleared land only within

the town, not out in rural areas. That’s why I suspect he was paid by the town. But there’s no evidence.

Just a theory given how he only cleared land lots that became streets. He used explosives and I bet

he enjoyed blowing up things. I found the Episcolian church recipes and apparently George adored

cottage cheese sandwiches. Here’s a small list of the sandwiches he took to work in his lunchpail.

It was passed down to his grandchildren, as I remember my grandmother enjoying a bowl of

cottage cheese with the below variations- that’s where it came from. 

Cottage cheese, peas, and watercress

Cottage cheese, preserved watermelon rind, and basil

Cottage cheese, pineapple, coconut flakes, red pepper 

Cottage cheese, strawberry preserves, and mint

Cottage cheese, orange marmalade, and thyme or rosemary 

Cottage cheese, fresh tomatoes, and basil 

Cottage cheese, cucumber, and olives 

Cottage cheese, sliced onion round, and chicken liver spread

Some of these sound delicious and I’m going to try, but there’s a few that has me scratching my head.

I never thought to put cottage cheese on white bread as a sandwich filling.

In 1924, his family all moved to Harrison, AR, I know this because they start showing up in the

harrison daily times news. His sons Lowern and Lee were… notorious. Anyways, the last time he

appears in the news is 1925, so he was alive then. But there’s no obituary for him in the same

newspaper, I find this puzzling. If anyone out there happens to have a box of papers, family bibles,

pictures, etc from our great great grandfather, please let me know and I’d love to come look through

them for more clues. 

On the 1930 census, Celia appears as a widow; so George died between 1925 and 1930.

I do not know if he died while in Searcy County or if he died while in Boone County. Or could he

have just up and left them? I doubt it as in 1924 he was aged 70… too old. 

This is how Harrison looked in 1920s when George moved back to the area to clear land for the town.

This is an ad from 1910 and George likey worked with these in his land clearing job.

In 1914, there was a terrible train wreck right at the site George was working to clear land. I have no direct evidence that George was one of the men working to rescue the survivors, but he was at the right place at the right time to have an high probability of having been at the minimum a witness. Grant likely helped as well.

This church was across the street from the Harrison High School on Cherry Street. It's now a parking lot. This is where the family attended church and his cottage cheese sandwiches appear in their church cookbook recipes housed in the Boone County Heritage Museum.

Our Wilhelm Cousins

 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) 

1. 1879 Baby Girl Wilhelm in Loutre, Montogermery County, Missouri 

2. 1880 Minnie Wilhelm, Loutre, Missouri

3. 1885 Grant Wilhelm, Loutre, Missouri

Via second wife Mary Daniels (married August 31, 1891) 

4. 1893 Arthur Wilhelm, Poplar Bluff, Missouri 

5. 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 

6. Baby boy 1904, Terrapin Creek area 

7. Lowern April 1, 1906, Wiley’s Cove, Arkansas (now Leslie)

8. Aline December 21, 1908, Leslie, AR

9. Thelma February 10, 1910

10. 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: 

1. 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. 

2. 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. 

3. 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. 

1. Grant Wilhelm, m Fannie Hoover

1. Ernestine Wilhelm born 1907

Marries Robert Lee Phillips 1924

1. Ralph Phillips, January 16, 1926-1993 (an accountant) 

2. Melvin Ray Phillips May 10, 1928-Dec 31, 1997 (an helicopter mechanic) 

3. Robert Lee Phillips jr June 19, 1933-

4. Mary A Phillips 1937-2018

5. Muriel Dean Phillips February 6, 1942-2013

6. Gerald Dean Phillips February 6, 1942-2019

 (Then they all moved to San Joaquin, California) 

2. Grant Wilhelm, m. Flora Horner. 

1. Possibly Jewell Wilhelm… Not digging into her until I have more proof. 

4.  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

1. 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. 

1. 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. 

2. 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. 

2. Arthur’s second wife is Flossie Rooch, 1900-1984 and they had the following children:

1. Arthur Leon Wilhelm, 1920-1978

1. Married Mamie Mears, often mixed up with above Maymie. 

2. Millard Lloyd Wilhelm, 1924-2009, Hot Springs area

3. Mildred Wilhelm 1924-??  

4. 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.

1. Wilburn Howard Wilhelm 1918-1983

2. Willie Jo Wilhelm 1925-2005

3. Leva Iona Wilhelm 1931-1993

4. Carol Sue Wilhelm 1940-1996

7. Lowern Owen Wilhelm 1906-1941 in Boone County, Arkansas 

1. Marries Eva Nola Bell Seamon 

1. Arminta Lou Wilhelm

2. 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 

1. Corene Smothers 1939-1992

2. Charlene Smothers 1940-2013

9. Thelma Alberta Wilhelm 1910-1962

Married Howell, Moore, and Young. 

1. James Asburn Howell 1929-2015 (Pastor in Hindsville, AR)

2. 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.