Posted on: Miami Co. Oh Queries Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Oh/Miami/10372 Surname: WEST, PERDUE, MCALLISTER ------------------------- Seeking information on Alexander WEST and Nancy PERDUE/PERDEW, married in Piqua, Miami County, OH, 1841. Believe Nancy to be my great-great grandmother by her second husband Andrew M. McALLISTER. I'm trying to track her back to family of origin through her first husband. 1850 federal census shows 4 children of Alexander and Nancy West of Piqua, Miami Co OH: John S. age 8, b. OH; Martin age 6, b. OH; Hezekiah age 4, b. OH; and Mary E., age 2, b. OH. Nancy C. West married Andrew Matthew MCALLISTER, McLean Co. IL 1858. Nancy had four children with Andrew McAllister: Armanda, Laura, Edward Reed, and Ollis. 1860 census shows Nancy West McAllister's children to include Mary West age 11 b. OH and Eli West b. IN age 8. 1880 census shows Nancy living in Cowley Co, Kansas, with sons Martin J. West age 36, b. OH and Eli West age 30 b. OH. A Mary E. West married Lewis Howard Cheney in McLean Co IL. Info posted on LDS familysearch site shows a John S. West, son of Alexander and Nancy West of "Pickway" OH, immigrated to Crawford County, KS, and had a son Lewis Howard Cheney. I feel that Mary E. West Cheney is this John S. West's sister. Nancy West McAllister died December 5, 1893 in Winfield, Kansas. Obituary in the San Luis, Colorado, Graphic shows her to be the mother-in-law of Lewis Howard Cheney (Mary West Cheney was accidentally shot at a picnic in Wagon Wheel Gap, CO, in 1892.) If you know anything about this West family, please respond. Thanks.