This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wilhelm, Story, Willhelm Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/INB.2ACE/159.37.1 Message Board Post: Hello June - It has been several years since you posted your email concerning your friend, Joyce Wilhelm Story. May I ask if you two ever connected? If so, I would be interested in discussing with you the WILHELM line in either Montana or Texas. I am looking for descendants of William Welcome WIL(L)HELM, born 1843 in Tennessee, moved to Franklin Co., Arkansas by 1850 and served in an Arkansas infantry unit during the Civil War. He later married and moved to Texas. Sometime after 1883 he left his family in Texas and dropped out of sight. In 1940, a relative of mine met a 97-year old Wilhelm in a Montana hospital--shortly before he died. He was visited by two daughters. Her notes do not reflect which hospital or town in Montana--hence my search of all things WILHELM. I would appreciate your help in asking your friend's family if their lines connect. I will look for an obit for your Mary / Percy Wilhelm, and continue census and city directory searches for my Wilhelms and your friend's Wilhelms. Welk Willhelm is my "dead-end" and I enjoy the hunt! Sandy