Hello Hessians, just by chance I checked the mail list archives of the Schwalm mailing list and found the last posting by Bill Hughes in Oct. 2002. He just had updated his own website and invited us to check it over. I checked his guestbook and to my deep sorrow I read that he passed away sometimes in December 2002. He was also a sunscriber of our list, and he did ask me for advice how to go about starting a mail list. He was a descendant of the Hessen Kassel soldier Johannes Schwalm, on his father's side, but his mother's side settled in South Carolina. I am truly sorry to learn so late about his departure so long ago, and I should have looked earlier for him when I started missing his input. He is with his ancestors now. Truly sorry, John Merz (is there anybody interested to continue the Schwalm-L mail list?)