I have recently been working on a Web Page to present West Family genealogical information that I know about my own family tree. I am primarily researching the West Family trying to find my roots but I have included everyone along my search. I have reached the end of my findings with my third great grandfather, Eber West. I am hopeful that this page will help other West Family researchers as well as help me reach further into my roots. The page is far from complete but it has a good start. I am working on transcribing the life story of Georgia Ann (WEST) Osborn as told by her daughters Eunice and Roxie. This is real interesting reading even if it not your line of Wests'. If you visit please e-mail me with any suggestions or information you might have on this West Family line. Dale West Boston, MA http://www.geocities.com/~gtkiwanis/dwest/homepage.html

I wish you all a very happy, safe and blessed holiday. May the blessings of The Most Holy Gift be yours. You all have made this a wonderful year, and I look forward to seeing many new family members discovered in the next year. Thank you all and God bless you each and every one. Myra Chambers Listowner

I am looking for someone to take over the West genealogy page at http://members.tripod.com/~westgenealogy Please contact me via private e-mail (autreygen@aol.com) if you have the html experience and would like to take over this page. Andrea

Searching for info on my gg grandfather, Woodson West, born in 1809/10 in North Carolina. He married Martha ? before 1836. She was born in TN in 1815. Apparently he lived in TN before moving to Johnson Co. IL by 1850. Would love to find connections and willing to share info. Terry Ceballos katlady@airmail.net http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/ceballos

Seeking info and help on the West family from Aberdeen Scotland Andrew West married Ann Wilson 1899 in Aberdeen Don Wilson

Hi All! Due to family goings-on I will be off-line until after the New Year. I will retain all inquiries received and in due time respond to all. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year to all! Fran

Fay -- One other bit of info. for you: According to the 1880 census which lists Callaway and Sarah Brown, Sarah (West) Brown's father (who we have concluded is George WEST of Bedford Co.) was born in MARYLAND. The census records seem to be pretty complete and accurate. Does this fit with what you know about George WEST? Thanks again, Tracy J. Brown > ---------- > From: Fay E. Collins[SMTP:faycollins@sprintmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 5:17 PM > To: Brown, Tracy > Subject: Re: George WEST and Sarah JAMES > > Tracy, > > There is a deed in Montgomery Co, PA Book 25, p 466 that clearly spells > out the relationship--"Daniel James & Susanna his wife of the County of > Bedford & State of Virginia" . ."as devised to the said Susanna James by > her father Jacob Bealart dec'd." > > Fay > > Brown, Tracy wrote: > > > > Gene - > > You posted some info. re Sarah James and George West to Genserv several > > years ago. > > Assuming you are still at this e-mail address, have you found anything > > further on George West, or Sarah james? > > I have received information which shows Sarah as the daughter of: > > Daniel James b 1750 Upper Merion Twnshp, Phila. Co, PA and > > Susannah Bealert, b c 1749, d 1840-1850, daughter of > Johann > > Jacob Bealert & wife Maria Dorothea. > > > > You show her as "daughter of Daniel JAMES (1116) and Phil Susannah > BAKER". > > How sure are you of your info.? > > > > Thanks much, > > > > Tracy James Brown >

Dear Fran; If at all possible, and when you find the spare time, would you please check for the WEST surname in Sussex Co, DE and Worcester Co, MD. The family was in those two counties from the mid 1600s to late 1700s. If this is not consistant with what you are offering, please disregard. Incidentally, are the newsletters available in archives on the Web? Happy holidays to All, Richard West Hopper >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 21:00:16 -0500 >From: "fred powell, sr" <powell@cvn.net> >To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <001101be2af3$53cfcf20$5a6d9dd0@user> >Subject: [WEST-L] WWWQ >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello all WEST researchers! > >The newsletter is no longer available. I wrote it from 1991 through 1996 and >into 1997. > >For my own records I saved published copies of most of the newsletters >except maybe the early ones. Since my subscriber base was national I have >WEST queries and information from forty six of our states. > >It was to the saved copies of the newsletter I referred when I told Dale I >would check on something for him. > >For any registered subscriber to Myra's WEST-L, I will happily check into >any inquiry using the old copies of WWWQ, but please be aware they are >old/out of date. While the data don't change the addresses of correspondents >do. > >Hopefully, this rather long note will clear up impressions I did not intend >to create. > >Later, > >Fran Chinquapin@bigfoot.com permanent mail address >

Hello all WEST researchers! The newsletter is no longer available. I wrote it from 1991 through 1996 and into 1997. For my own records I saved published copies of most of the newsletters except maybe the early ones. Since my subscriber base was national I have WEST queries and information from forty six of our states. It was to the saved copies of the newsletter I referred when I told Dale I would check on something for him. For any registered subscriber to Myra's WEST-L, I will happily check into any inquiry using the old copies of WWWQ, but please be aware they are old/out of date. While the data don't change the addresses of correspondents do. Hopefully, this rather long note will clear up impressions I did not intend to create. Later, Fran Chinquapin@bigfoot.com permanent mail address

I am looking for any information anyone might have on my great-great grandfather, Ronel Douglas West, Sr. He was born in Georgia on July 16, 1860 and died in Bertram, Texas on May 23, 1943. He married Mollie Lucas and they had two children, James Eber West and Mable West. James Eber and Mable are believed to have also died in Bertram, Texas. Ronel Douglas West, Sr.'s second marraige was to Louise E. Knight and they had four children, Golda Katherine West, R.D. West Jr., Rubie L. West and John Robert West. Possibly some or all of these children may still be living. Dale West Boston, MA

Hi All! Due to my mention of my former newsletter, I have been deluged by requests for information. This note is to say please, all who wrote, bear with me. I will catch up and will respond to each inquiry as soon as I possibly can. Thanks for the interest to all who wrote. Later, Fran Chinquapin@bigfoot.com Permanent mailing address

I don't know if this was the list of epidemics referred to on Dec. 8. This list I received from a cousin in another family line. Perhaps it will be of help. Joan Sept-Oct, 1997, Newsletter - Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County "Source: Ancestors West, SSBCGS, Vol.. 20, No 1, Fail 199&' In case you ever wondered why a large number of your ancestors disappeared during a certain period in history, this might help. Epidemics have always had a great influence on people - and thus influencing, as well. the genealogists trying to trace them. Many cases of people disappearing from records can be trace to dying during an epidemic or moving away from the affected area. Some of the major epidemics in the United States are listed below: 1657 Boston Measles 1687 Boston Measles 1690 New York Yellow Fever 1713 Boston Measles 1729 Boston Measles 1732-3 Worldwide Influenza 1738 SouthCarolina Smallpox 1739-40 Boston Measles 1747 CT, NY, PA, SC Measles 1759 N. Amber (areas inhabited by white people) Measles 1761 N. Amber and West Indies Influenza 1772 N. America Measles 1775 N. Amber. (hard in New England) Unknown Illness 1775-6 Worldwide (one of the worst) Influenza 1783 Dover, DE (extremely fatal) Bilious Disorder 1788 Philadelphia and New York Measles 1893 Vermont Influenza 1893 Virginia (killed 500 in 5 counties in 4 wk.) Influenza 1793 Philadelphia (very bad) Yellow Fever 1793 Middletown & Harrisburg PA Unknown Illness 1794 Philadelphia Yellow Fever 1796-7 Philadelphia Yellow Fever 1798 Philadelphia (very bad) Yellow Fever 1803 New York Yellow Fever 1820-3 Nationwide "River Fever" 1831-2 Nationwide (brought by English emigrants) Asiatic Cholera 1832 NY City Cholera 1837 Philadelphia Typhus 1841 South States Yellow Fever 1847 New Orleans Yellow Fever 1847-8 Nationwide Influenza 1850 Nationwide Yellow Fever 1852 Scattered part of the Nation Yellow Fever 1855 Nationwide ( New Orleans 8,000 deaths) Yellow Fever 1857-9 Worldwide Influenza 1860-1 Pennsylvania Smallpox 1865-73 Philadelphia, NY, Boston, New Orleans) Smallpox Baltimore, Memphis, Washington were hit with a series of epidemics Cholera Typhus Typhoid Scarlet Fever Yellow Fever 1873 N. America and Europe Influenza 1878 New Orleans (last great out break) Yellow Fever 1885 Plymouth, PA Typhoid 1886 Jacksonville, FL Yellow Fever 1918 Worldwide (more people were hospitalized Influenza in W.W.I from this epidemic than wounds. US Army training camps became death camps, with 80% rate in some camps) In the following are mentioned with cholera out breaks: 1833 Columbus, OH 1834 New York City 1849 New York 1851 Cools, CO., III, The Great Plains and Missouri

This message is for Dale WEST whose address I inadvertently deleted. Dale, up until 1996 I wrote, for a number of years, a WEST family surname newsletter. During that time, I received two inquiries for information on one Eber WEST. I will search my files and back copies of WWWQ, the newsletter. If I can locate those queries I will indeed get back to you. Please send again your e-mail address. I promise to handle with more care this time. Later, Fran permanent e-mail address: Chinquapin@bigfoot.com

Hi all! Is anyone researching David WEST enumerated with his family 1840 Meriwether Co., GA? Thanks. Fran Chinquapin@bigfoot.com (Permanent mailing address)

I wonder if our families might connect? I have a Thomas Allen West md. to a Margaret "Peggy" Hogan in 1824 in Christian Co., KY. My Thomas Allen West was b. 1 Feb 1804 Chatham Co., NC (son of Charles H. West and Aquilla Buckner). They went to Denton Co., TX prior to 1856 where Peggy died in Aug. of that year in Denton Co. Thomas died there on 16 Sep 1875. Thomas A. West had 10 siblings as best as we can determine. I suspect your Benjamine and brother, Thomas W/N. may all be cousins. Charles H. West was a son of Thomas West, Jr. of Chatham and Orange Co., NC who died in Christian Co., KY (1735-1821). John G. West At 09:53 AM 12/13/98 +0000, Don Raney wrote: >I am looking for the ancestors of Rev. Benjamin Lynch West, b. 29 Mar 1810 in >Greensboro? NC, married Rebecca Jones 30 Nov 1836 in Talladega Co, AL migrated >to Smith Co, TX in 1848 and died 11 Dec 1859 in Denton Co, TX. Rev. West was a >Methodist Minister and his brother was Thomas W. or N. West. > >I will be happy to exchange information on this family. >His known children were as follows: > > > > >1. Sarah Jane West b. 27 Sep 1837, Bibb Co, AL, d. 12 Dec 1837 Bibb Co, AL. > >2. Mary Elizabeth West, b. 12 Jan 1939 Bibb Co, AL. > >3. Benjamin Lynch West, Jr. b. 22 Nov 1840 Bibb Co, AL, d. 23 Nov 1863 TX. > >4. Albertus James "Jim" West, b. 6 Sep 1844 Bibb Co, AL, d 30 May 1919 Hunt Co, >TX. > >5. Marxellus West, b. 12 Oct 1845, Bibb Co, AL, d. 21 Dec 1864, TX. > >6. Frances Tucker "Fannie" West, b. 8 Mar 1847 LA, d. 1914, married >James Ezekiel " Jimmy" Newell ca. 1880 TX, d. 1914. > >7. Manda Knox West b. 6 Jan 1849, Smith Co, TX. > >8. John Richard West, b. 26 Mar 1851 Smith Co, TX. > >9. William Pierce "Billy" West, b. 4 Dec 1852, Smith Co, TX, d. 1924 Royce >City, Rockwall Co, TX. > >10. Josiah " Joe" West, b. 21 Oct 1854. Smith Co, TX, d. 10 Aug 1931 Royce >City, Rockwall Co, TX. > >11. George Ellis West Sr. b. 6 Feb 1858, Tyler, Smith Co, TX, >married Eudora "Dora" Newell 3 Nov 1886 Denton Co, TX, d. 6 Jul 1928 >Royce City, Rockwall Co, TX. > > >Don Raney, 1506 Comanche Trail, Garland, TX 75043 >972-278-3381 don.raney@chrysalis.org > > > >==== WEST Mailing List ==== >Sign up to transcribe a county for USGenWeb. Goal - have every US Census on the internet. > >

I am looking for the ancestors of Rev. Benjamin Lynch West, b. 29 Mar 1810 in Greensboro? NC, married Rebecca Jones 30 Nov 1836 in Talladega Co, AL migrated to Smith Co, TX in 1848 and died 11 Dec 1859 in Denton Co, TX. Rev. West was a Methodist Minister and his brother was Thomas W. or N. West. I will be happy to exchange information on this family. His known children were as follows: 1. Sarah Jane West b. 27 Sep 1837, Bibb Co, AL, d. 12 Dec 1837 Bibb Co, AL. 2. Mary Elizabeth West, b. 12 Jan 1939 Bibb Co, AL. 3. Benjamin Lynch West, Jr. b. 22 Nov 1840 Bibb Co, AL, d. 23 Nov 1863 TX. 4. Albertus James "Jim" West, b. 6 Sep 1844 Bibb Co, AL, d 30 May 1919 Hunt Co, TX. 5. Marxellus West, b. 12 Oct 1845, Bibb Co, AL, d. 21 Dec 1864, TX. 6. Frances Tucker "Fannie" West, b. 8 Mar 1847 LA, d. 1914, married James Ezekiel " Jimmy" Newell ca. 1880 TX, d. 1914. 7. Manda Knox West b. 6 Jan 1849, Smith Co, TX. 8. John Richard West, b. 26 Mar 1851 Smith Co, TX. 9. William Pierce "Billy" West, b. 4 Dec 1852, Smith Co, TX, d. 1924 Royce City, Rockwall Co, TX. 10. Josiah " Joe" West, b. 21 Oct 1854. Smith Co, TX, d. 10 Aug 1931 Royce City, Rockwall Co, TX. 11. George Ellis West Sr. b. 6 Feb 1858, Tyler, Smith Co, TX, married Eudora "Dora" Newell 3 Nov 1886 Denton Co, TX, d. 6 Jul 1928 Royce City, Rockwall Co, TX. Don Raney, 1506 Comanche Trail, Garland, TX 75043 972-278-3381 don.raney@chrysalis.org

Janet..My West line is in Frederick,(Fred Co) MD. I have a Nancy (Thompson) West who m John West in 1842. Could this be your John West? Their children were - Francelia, Mariah, Geo. W., Elizann, Oliver. My line follows Oliver, Nancy's youngest who was born Mar 1850. Is anything familiar here familiar to anyone. Please contac me. Thanks Margo Dunbarmar@aol.com

Curtis, my WEST line also started in Chester Co PA. My John B.West was born Valley Forge PA in 1801. (i have found no documentation for that.) he married in MD (frederick county) had children in MD and NJ (Union Co). is your chester co. branch from valley forge? or have we talked before and am i embarassing myself? ;-) janet janetb@bigfoot.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Re: [WEST-L] Irish Wests > Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 21:38:00 +0000 > From: "Curtis A. Ritter" <c.ritter@worldnet.att.net> > To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com > > Beverly, > My WEST line(at least a branch of it) went from Chester Co PA to > Richmond,VA, then on to South Carolina (Gresham and Marion) in the > mid to late 1800's. I have a hunch that they may have been preceded > by others in the family I have not yet identified.

That's a tough one. I know my Wests are Scotch-Irish because my grandmother told me so, and my mother's cousins say their mothers (my grandmother's sisters) told them the same thing (I haven't tracked back to the original immigrant yet). When I found some distant connections, they all claimed to be Scotch-Irish as well. I don't know how you'd find that out if you didn't have an oral history to start with. I can tell you most Scotch-Irish were Protestant, and most of them came to North America in the mid-1700s. I have a little more about the Scotch-Irish on one of my web pages: http://www.theshop.net/missbev/family/Scotch-Irish.html and I have what I know of my West family ancestry on this page: http://www.theshop.net/missbev/family/Wests2.html Good luck. Beverly >Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 13:40:10 -0800 >From: "Paul W. West" <paulwest@uswest.net> >To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [WEST-L] Re: Irish Wests > >Beverly: > >Thanks for your reply. Do you have any idea of how to research these Irish Wests? >If my line goes through them, rather than through the Lords de la Warr, how can I >find out? > >Thanks, Paul > > >Beverly Wrote: > >> Paul, my West family came from South Carolina. My family tradition never >> mentioned any royalty, but did say the family was Scotch-Irish, ethnic >> lowlander Scots from what is now Northern Ireland. >> >> Beverly >> missbev@theshop.net

Donna I read your post....while I do not have your Jonathon, My WEST were in MD about the same time, migrated the same route, and many ended up in Washington Co AR. We should compare notes. Your email bounced back....twice. Andy & Karen Wright Wilson argonut@elite.net -----Original Message----- From: brandon@mmind.net <brandon@mmind.net> To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com <WEST-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, December 07, 1998 10:26 PM Subject: [WEST-L] Rowan Co, NC WESTS >Hello! I am looking for a Jonathon West b. abt 1740 in MD who moved to >Rowan Co. NC, possibly with brothers Samuel, William, Ephraim, Alexander, John, and Jenkins. >Jonathon's son Thomas b. 1777 in Rowan Co. married Mary Renshaw, moved >to Jackson Co. AL then on to Washington Co. AR. >I would love to hear from anyone who might be researching these >families. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > >Donna >brandon@mmind.net