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United States World War I Draft Registration Cards
Name: James Oliver West Event Date: 1917-1918 Event Place: Coleman County, Texas Nationality: United States Birth Date: 07 Jan 1874 Birthplace: Texas, United States
Texas, County Marriages, 1817-1965
Name Jim Or Jim O West Marriage Date 22 Dec 1906 Marriage Place Nolan, Texas, USA Spouse Zula Mitchell Film Number 004212709
United States Census, 1910
Name: J O West Event Place: Justice Precinct 1, Sterling, Texas Age: 35 Birth Year (Estimated): 1875 Birthplace: Texas Father's Birthplace: Texas Mother's Birthplace: Georgia
Sheet Letter: B Sheet Number: 3
Role Sex Age Birthplace
J O West Head Male 35 Texas
Zula West Wife Female 36 Alabama
C C Woods Cook Male 65 New York
United States Census, 1940
Name: James West Event Place: Justice Precinct 3, Hamilton, Texas Age: 69 Birthplace: Texas Birth Year (Estimated): 1871 Last Place of Residence:
Role Sex Age Birthplace
James West Head Male 69 Texas
Zula A West Wife Female 66 Alabama
Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
Name: James O West Event Date: 18 Jun 1946 Event Place: Hico, Hamilton, Texas Marital Status: Married Birth Date: 15 Mar 1871 Birthplace: , Texas
Father's Name: George R West Mother's Name: Lizie Wilson Certificate Number: 27011
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James O. West BIRTH 15 Mar 1871 DEATH 18 Jun 1946 (aged 75) BURIAL Hico Cemetery Hico, Hamilton County, Texas MEMORIAL ID 37740844
Parents George Russell West 1846-1926 Elizabeth Wilson West 1846-1911
Spouse Zula A. Mitchell West 1873-1952
Siblings
Caroline L West Lipscomb 1865-1954
Minta West Bunton 1866-1958
Annie Maude West Aycock 1866-1939
Pinkie West 1871-1879
Sallie West Stiles 1872-1958
Gravesite Details On double marker with Zula A. West (1873-1952)
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1830 - pos that John was with brother George R
United States Census, 1840
Name John West Event Place Henderson, Tennessee Page 358
1840 United States Federal Census
Name: John Wesh [John West] Home in 1840 (City, County, State): Henderson, Tennessee
Free White Persons - Males - 20 thru 29: 1
Free White Persons - Males - 30 thru 39: 1
Free White Persons - Females - 20 thru 29: 1
Slaves - Males - 10 thru 23: 2
Slaves - Females - Under 10: 4
Slaves - Females - 24 thru 35: 1
Persons Employed in Commerce: 2
Free White Persons - 20 thru 49: 3
Total Free White Persons: 3
Total Slaves: 7
Total All Persons - Free White, Free Colored, Slaves: 10
United States Census, 1850
Name John West Event Place Henderson, Tennessee Age 39 Birth Year (Estimated) 1811 Birthplace Tennessee House Number 104
Role Sex Age Birthplace
John West M 39 Tennessee
Eliza West F 34 Tennessee
Corrilla Sa* F 16 Tennessee
Elizabeth Hancock F 15 Tennessee
Harriet Day F 14 Tennessee
Mary E Day F 12 Tennessee
Eliza Stanford F 11 Tennessee
Oloway Ambri* M 48 Switzerland
William Hancock M 13 Tennessee
Samuel Hancock M 11 Tennessee
United States Census, 1860
Name John West Event Place 10th Civil District, Henderson, Tennessee Age 50 Birth Year (Estimated) 1810 Birthplace Tennessee Page 131
Role Sex Age Birthplace
John West M 50 Tennessee
Eliza West F 45 Tennessee
Olivia R West F 10 Alabama child of James Arthur and Mariah
A Andrews M 20 Tennessee
Texas, U.S., Marriage Index, 1824-2017
Name: Dr. John West Marriage Date: 17 Aug 1881 Marriage Place: Lavaca, Texas Spouse: Janie McKinney
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Dr John West BIRTH 5 May 1810 Dickson County, Tennessee DEATH 18 May 1883 (aged 73) Texas BURIAL Harman Cemetery Lexington, Henderson County, Tennessee MEMORIAL ID 59685153
Spouse Eliza Harman West 1814-1874
John was number 4 in a family of 8 children of Isaac West, Jr. and Hannah Russell. He married Eliza Harman in the 1830's and to my knowledge they never had any children. After the death of his brother, James, and his wife, Mariah, their daughter, Olivia, came to live with John and Eliza.
After Eliza's death John went to Texas to visit his family and there he married Janie McKinney 17 Aug 1881 in Lavaca County. They had one child, a son who died as an infant and is buried in Milam County, Texas.
Geneanet Community Trees Index
Name: John West Death Date: 1883 Death Place: Texas, Texas Father: Isaac West Mother: Hannah Russell Spouse: Jane McKINLEY
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Texas, U.S., Select County Marriage Index, 1837-1965
Name: George W West Marriage Date: 18 Jun 1874 Marriage Place: Lavaca, Texas Spouse: Kittie L Searcy
United States Census, 1880
Name: George West Event Place: Precinct 3, Lavaca, Texas Age: 29 Occupation: Farmer X Stockraiser Birth Year (Estimated): 1851 Birthplace: Tennessee Father's Birthplace: Tennessee Mother's Birthplace: Tennessee
Role Gender Age Birthplace
George West Self M 29 Tennessee
Louisa Learcy Mother-in-law F 46 Louisiana = Searcy
Kittie West Wife F 22 Texas
United States Census, 1900
Name: George W West Event Place: Justice Precincts 1, 5, Live Oak, Texas Age: 49 Years Married: 25 Birth Date: Mar 1851 Birthplace: Tennessee Marriage Year (Estimated): 1875 Father's Birthplace: Tennessee Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Role Gender Age Birthplace
George W West Head M 49 Tennessee
Kittie West Wife F 43 Texas
Charles Allen Servant M 37 Texas
United States Census, 1910
Name: George W West Event Place: San Antonio Ward 5, Bexar, Texas Age: 59 Birth Year (Estimated): 1851 Birthplace: Tennessee Father's Birthplace: Tennessee Mother's Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Role Gender Age Birthplace
George W West Head M 59 Tennessee
Kittie West Wife F 50 Texas
Mamie Webb Servant F 30 Texas
BIBLIOGRAPHY:
J. Marvin Hunter, Trail Drivers of Texas (2 vols., San Antonio: Jackson Printing, 1920, 1923; 4th ed., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985). August Santleben, A Texas Pioneer (New York and Washington: Neale, 1910). Ervin L. Sparkman, The People's History of Live Oak County (Mesquite, Texas, 1981). Vertical Files, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, George West.
WEST, GEORGE WASHINGTON (1851-1926). George West, cattleman and trail driver, eldest of three sons of Washington and Mary B. (Willauer) West, was born at Shannonville, Tennessee, on March 10, 1851. In 1854 Washington West moved his family to Lavaca County, Texas, and their home became an important stagecoach stop, which developed into the community of Sweet Home. George was one of the first to drive longhorn cattle to the Kansas railheads in 1867-68, and he continued driving until the trails closed. In 1870 he contracted with the government to deliver 14,000 longhorns to the Rosebud Indian Reservation in Montana.
Although he was the youngest man with the herd, he was the trail boss, and this drive, from Lavaca County, Texas, to the destination, just 100 miles south of the Canadian border, probably qualifies as the longest trail drive on record. George had two brothers, Ike and Sol, who were also trail drivers in the period 1870-90.
George West married Katherine "Kittie" Elizabeth Searcy, a descendant of the early American colonist John Searcy on June 18, 1874. They had no children. During the 1870s West made many drives to Kansas, Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas. In 1880 he and his wife moved to Live Oak County and purchased a 140,000-acre ranch and 26,000 cattle. This ranch included the site of the present town of George West, which he founded in 1913, and extended from the Nueces River on the north and east to McMullen County on the west. He had 80,000 cattle in 1882, when he lost so many in the drought that he had to sell off half of his ranch. J. Frank Dobie, another Live Oak County son, records that cowboys employed by West were instructed to chop off the left horn of every dead steer and bring it to a pile at the ranch headquarters. After the height of the pile exceeded that of the gatepost and was estimated at between 3,000 and 20,000 dead animals, they quit.
About the turn of the century West sold 60,000 acres to Charles Simmons, of St. Louis, Missouri, who subdivided it, held a lottery for lots, and established the town of Simmons, Texas, in 1907. About 1910 West also turned his efforts toward colonization and town development by donating $100,000 and a free right-of-way through his ranch to the San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad (called the "Sausage Line"), and the railroad became a reality in 1912. He also established the town named in his honor in the succeeding years and built a $75,000 courthouse in order to remove the county seat from Oakville, a $50,000 school, highways, bridges, public utilities, and a hotel across from the railroad depot. He moved to a permanent residence in San Antonio in 1904 and attended the Baptist Church there. He died in San Antonio on February 16, 1926.
