Hello One and All; Apparently I received some misleading information. Year before last I was at a family reunion at Henry Horton State Park, and Jacob William Wilhoite, Sr. , he co-compiled the book The Ancestors & Descendants of Jabob Wilhoit, 1751-1821, was talking about the ships bell and that it had finally made its way to Thomas Mackk Wilhoit's mother and that she was going to donate it to H.H. State Park to be put on display, there is a bell on display, but it IS NOT the bell from the USS Wilhoit. Following is a reply I received from Thomas Mack Williams who is a nephew of Thomas Mack Wilhoit. Hello Gary Wilhoite: Re your question, the whereabouts of the Wilhoite bell is a very big and yet unanswered question. The bell at Henry Horton is not the Wilhoite ship's bell. The Navy in Washington claims that the Wilhoite ship's bell is missing from inventory (Naval Historical Center) due to a loan to some group in either North or South Carolina. I would appreciate more information regarding your question. My mother has tried to recover the bell for display in either the Henry Horton State Park or in a veterans's exhibit in the State of Kentucky. My mother's family resided in Kentucky at the time of my uncle's death in World War Two. He went to high school in Guthrie, Ky., where today there is a small memorial to him in a Baptist church, and, I believe, a plaque at Guthrie High School memorializing the graduates who fell in WWII. There is (or was, when I attended, 1958-1964) a plaque at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennesse, where my uncle was a two-year student in 1940-41(in those days it was only a two-year college). According to my grandmother, he received the highest grades in math ever received by any student at the time. Sadly, I did not inherit his talent for math. Please stay in touch and let me know more about your questions concerning the bell. All the best, etc. Tom Williams. /// PS: I am still on overseas travel and unable to access my notes in the US. Gary A Wilhoite ==== WILHITE Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe from WILHITE, send an e-mail message to: [email protected] (for individual messages) [email protected] (for Digest mode) Subject: unsubscribe In the body include only one word: unsubscribe (Turn OFF your signature file when sending this command)