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Utah, Missionary Department Missionary Registers
Name Joseph Anderson West Event Type Mission Event Date 1895 Event Place Southern States Residence Place Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Birth Date 05 Oct 1867 Birthplace Parowan, Iron, Utah Baptism Date 05 Oct 1876 Date Returned 29 Jun 1897 Father's Name John A West Mother's Name Mary Jane Robinson
Page 11 Volume Missionary Register v. 3 By Whom Set Apart H J Grant Date Set Apart 12 Apr 1895
United States Census, 1920
Name Joseph West Place Salt Lake City Ward 4, Salt Lake, Utah Age 52 Can Read Yes Can Write Yes Own or Rent Rent Birth Year (Estimated) 1868 Birthplace Utah
Father's Birthplace Tennessee Mother's Birthplace Utah Sheet Letter B Sheet Number 4
Role Sex Age Birthplace
Joseph West Head M 52 Utah
Lois West Wife F 44 Utah
Mary West Daughter F 22 Utah
Regina West Daughter F 19 Utah
Edna West Daughter F 14 Utah
Jack West Son M 13 Utah
Venice West Daughter F 10 Utah
Lois West Daughter F 8 Utah
United States Census, 1930
Name Joseph West Event Place Los Angeles (Districts 0251-0500), Los Angeles, California Age 62 Birth Year (Estimated) 1868 Birthplace Utah Father's Birthplace Tennessee Mother's Birthplace Utah
Sheet Letter A Sheet Number 9
Role Sex Age Birthplace
Joseph West Head M 62 Utah
Lois West Wife F 54 Utah
Regina Watts Daughter F 26 Utah
Venice West Daughter F 19 California
Lois West Daughter F 16 Utah
United States Census, 1940
Name Joseph A West Event Place Councilmanic District 8, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California Age 73 Birthplace Utah Birth Year (Estimated) 1867 Last Place of Residence Same House
Role Sex Age Birthplace
Joseph A West Head M 73 Utah
Lois West Wife F 65 Utah
Mary Tanner Daughter F 42 Utah divorced
Dorothy L Tanner Granddaughter F 12 California
Donna M Tanner Granddaughter F 10 California
U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current
Name: Joseph A West Death Age: 79 Birth Date: abt 1868 Death Date: Abt 1947 Death Place: Glendora Burial Place: Glendora Obituary Date: 2 Aug 1947 Obituary Place: Los Angeles, California
Spouse: Lois Hunt West
Child:
Mary West Tanner dau
Merlin W. Sant spouse of dau Edna
Theodore O. Paulos spouse of dau Lois
Regina West dau
C. J. Simpson spouse of dau Venice
Jack H. West = John H West
Geneanet Community Trees Index
Name: Joseph Anderson West Birth Date: 5 oct. 1867 (5 Oct 1867) Birth Place: Parowan, Iron, Utah Death Date: 29 juil. 1947 Death Place: Glendora, Los Angeles, California
Father: John Anderson West Mother: Mary Jane Robinson
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Utah, Missionary Department Missionary Registers
Name John Anderson West Jr Event Type Mission Event Date 1888 Event Place North Western States Residence Place Huntington, Emery, Utah, United States
Birth Date 02 Sep 1864 Birthplace Parowan, Iron, Utah Date Returned 07 Jun 1890 Father's Name John A West Mother's Name Betsy Jane Fish
Page 93 Volume Missionary Register v. 1 By Whom Baptized William Holyoak By Whom Set Apart H J Grant Date Set Apart 09 Apr 1888
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Utah Death Certificates
Name Susan West Burt
Event Type Death
Event Date 22 Dec 1960
Event Place Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Gender Female
Age 73
Marital Status Married
Birth Year (Estimated) 1887
Father's Name John A West
Mother's Name Mary Jane Robinson
Spouse's Name Oliver L Burt
Certificate Number 60 18 2922
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United States Census, 1900
Name Erastus West Event Place Precincts 8, 16, 18, 20, 24 Lower Gila, Gold Hill, Black Hawk, Lordsburg, Red Rock, Grant, New Mexico Territory Age 32 Marital Status Married Years Married 7
Birth Date Jan 1868 Birthplace Utah Marriage Year (Estimated) 1893 Father's Birthplace Utah Mother's Birthplace Utah
Role Gender Age Birthplace
Erastus West Head M 32 Utah
Martha S West Wife F 25 Alabama
Ralph West Son M 6 New Mexico
Roy West Son M 2 Arizona
Florence A West Daughter F 1 Arizona
United States Census, 1910
Name Erastus West Event Place North Emmett, Canyon, Idaho, United States Age 41 Marital Status Married Birth Year (Estimated) 1869 Birthplace Utah
Father's Birthplace Utah Mother's Birthplace Missouri Sheet Letter A Sheet Number 14
Role Gender Age Birthplace
Erastus West Head M 41 Utah
Loma West Wife F 36 Alabama
Ralph West Son M 15 New Mexico
Roy West Son M 12 Arizona
Florence West Daughter F 10 Arizona
May West Daughter F 1 Idaho =Metta?
United States Census, 1920
Name Erastus West Event Place Antelope, Butte, Idaho, United States Age 52 Marital Status Married Birth Year (Estimated) 1868 Birthplace Utah
Father's Birthplace Kentucky Mother's Birthplace Kansas Sheet Letter B Sheet Number 1
Role Gender Age Birthplace
Erastus West Head M 52 Utah
Martha L West Wife F 44 Alabama
Meta V West Daughter F 11 Idaho
United States Census, 1930
Name Eurastus West Event Place Paul, Minidoka, Idaho, United States Age 63 Marital Status Married Birth Year (Estimated) 1867 Birthplace Utah
Father's Birthplace Tennessee Mother's Birthplace Canada Sheet Letter B Sheet Number 9
Role Gender Age Birthplace
Eurastus West Head M 63 Utah
L Martha West Wife F 55 Alabama
Florence West Daughter F 24 Arizona
U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995
Name Erastus West Residence Year 1930 Street Address Rd 2 Residence Place Twin Falls, Idaho Spouse Martha L West
United States Census, 1940
Name Erastus West Event Place Burley Election Precinct 3, Cassia, Idaho, United States Age 73 Marital Status Married Birthplace Utah Birth Year (Estimated) 1867
Last Place of Residence Paul, Minidoka, Idaho
Role Gender Age Birthplace
Erastus West Head M 73 Utah
Martha L West Wife F 64 Alabama
Wilber Trout Lodger M 26 Illinois
Idaho Death Certificates
Name Erastus West Event Date 29 Sep 1957 Event Place Burley, Cassia, Idaho, United States Birth Date 10 Jan 1867 Birthplace Utah
Father's Name John Anderson West Father's Birthplace Kentucky Mother's Name Betsy Jane Fish Mother's Birthplace Canada Certificate Number 003547
Posted 14 Feb 2015 by jmberrett30 HISTORY OF ERASTUS WEST
I, Erastus West, was born January 10, 1867, at Parowan, Iron County, Utah. The first thing I remember, when I was about eight years of age, was regarding the church. Word came that President Brigham Young was coming to Parowan. They came on Sunday and held conference. They dismissed Sunday School and all the children went out in the road and grouped together lined on each side of the road. When President Young came up, he opened the door of the buggy. He stepped out on the step of the buggy and took off his hat. The children took off their hats too. This picture of President Young is as vivid today as the very day it happened. I was baptized when nine years of age in Parowan and confirmed. (When I wrote to William McGregory of the Parowan Ward for the exact date of the baptism, he wrote back stating that a fire had burned all the ward records.)
When I was about nine years old, we supported ourselves. John and I attended 700 head of sheep out from Parowan about fifteen miles. We had to draw water for these sheep out of a well that was thirteen feet deep with a bucket by hand. We managed to keep them from the coyotes. If the sheep scattered at night, it was our job to go after them alone. John was two years older than I.
I was about twelve years old when we did our first farming - an acre or so of grain, etc. That year was the first year we paid tithing. A few potatoes and grain was what we took to the tithing office. The president of the stake received; I will never forget. I have remembered this all my life. While things have come up and discouraged me, this has always helped me not to become discouraged.
When I was about fourteen years old, we moved to Huntington, Emery County, Utah. It was here that I received all my ordinations in the Aaronic Priesthood. My first position in the church was ward librarian. I had the keys to the library. This one opportunity has been a great force in my life in helping me to solve problems. I learned more here, with the access to this library, than I had the opportunity to learn in school.
We moved from Parowan because we only had four acres of ground and we felt this was not enough to make a living on. We took up 120 acres, improved it, and Mother got title on it. Water was very bad here - there were minerals in the ground. We didn't have any wells; we used the ditch. The minerals made the water very unhealthy; it affected the health of the people seriously.
While in Huntington I was counselor in the young men's Mutual for two years. Also, I was first counselor to the president over the Aaronic Priesthood in the Huntington Ward for four years. We remained here about six years which would make me twenty years old and then we moved to San Luis Valley, Colorado. I felt that I could not put up with the above conditions. While in Huntington we went into the mountains to get timber to build a barn, etc. We dragged the logs down the canyon three miles. We would do this along the creek beds.
While on this particular trip for logs we had turned out the horses while we were getting the timber. I went after them and prayed to be protected. The trail was so narrow that you could only use one horse. I was fifteen years old at this time. While looking for the horses, I walked to the top of the mountain and there discovered a trail that had been traveled. I followed this trail for some distance thinking I would discover some tracks. While I was on this trail there was a voice that spoke to me and said, "Don't go any further." This voice was so plain and distinct to me, and seemed to be so close to me, that I thought there was some person behind me. I turned my head to look, but I didn't see anyone. I began to be a little nervous. I had stopped. I had a dog following me and I looked for him, and not seeing him I commenced to call him. When I had called two or three times, I turned my head and looked in the direction of the trail I had started to follow. I looked ahead of me; there was a thick thicket that the trail was going through. As I stood here, a mountain lion stepped out from behind a tree in the thicket and stood across the trail looking at me just like he had been watching for me. I knew then what the voice meant for me not to go any further. I turned around and walked back to camp and after I had gone a short ways back down the hill on the other side toward camp, my dog came to me. As I went down this trail, I found the horses a short way down. I took the horses and went to camp. John was at the camp with Mr. Caldwell and the two other men who accompanied us on the trip. These men were considerably older than John and I. This incident happened in the early spring; the snow was just off and the grass was green. During the following fall, three men were out deer hunting in this locality when they killed this lion. They brought it down to Huntington; it was stuffed and placed in front of the Huntington Ward for people to see. It measured nine feet from tip of tail to the end of its nose. It looked just exactly like the one I had encountered.
After our move from Huntington, John was called on a mission to the Central States. He labored most of the time in Ohio and Pennsylvania. He was gone about three years. I paid for his mission. We rented the farm in Huntington until John came back. After his mission, John returned to Huntington and after living there for some time, eventually sold the place.
I was called to go into New Mexico by President Wilford Woodruff to help settle the country. Lona's father was called at the same time. There were ten families in all that were called by President Woodruff. I was then twenty-two years of age. Here is where I got personally acquainted with my wife. We were married December 25, 1893 at Beulah, New Mexico.
I stayed two years in New Mexico. We brought water onto the land under great difficulty. We made a dam across the Chama River; we also made canals on some of the land. This project was not successful as the rains would flood and wash all the ditches and dams to pieces, regardless of how well they were constructed. We hauled logs ten miles to make this dam. When it was repeatedly washed away by floods, the stake president thought it unwise to remain. President Woodruff released us. This incident happened before I was married. This was in Beulah, New Mexico. I went upon the hills for wood; in coming back I had a steep hill to go down. Before I attempted to make it down, I asked my Heavenly Father to protect me so that my wagon would not tip over. I was alone on this trip. I had a rope tied to the lever of the wagon that held the brake. I was controlling this rope with my right foot, so I could hold the team with both hands. While in this position, the lever caught on a limb of the tree which was next to the road. This gave me a jerk and it threw me over so that I fell between the two wheels of the wagon. I said "Whoa" to the horses as I fell and the horses stopped. The back wheel was eight inches from my head when it stopped. I got up and made it home all right.
It was difficult to make a start in New Mexico, due to the lack of capital. At this time Albert R. Smith was stake president. We were now released from the call that President Woodruff had made of us. I went on into Old Mexico for work on the railroad for about nine months. "Go back into the world. Go back into the United States." This was said by all the members as they left Mexico. They felt Mexico was out of the world - off the map so to speak.
I then moved to the Helia River, in the St. Joseph Stake in Arizona. I homesteaded 120 acres here, but sold out and left because of the lack of water. John now decided to leave Huntington; he sold out and went to Emmett, Canyon County, Idaho in the fore part of 1902.
In the later part of 1902 I also went to Emmett, Idaho. I left Lona in Arizona to watch the place. I made the trip first just to look it over. I liked it, so I stayed and never went back to Helia. Lona's brother, Earl, bought our house. Lona came and brought with her our household goods.
Ralph was born in New Mexico. Roy and Florence were born in Arizona. When we went to Emmett, Idaho, we bought a fruit orchard - forty acres. We had made the deal but were in bad need of $500. John had gone to the bank to make the loan but we were not known, just having moved there and so he could not get the loan. He had just come out of the bank and was standing by the post office when a stranger came up and began talking. He made the remark, "You seem to be in trouble," whereupon John explained that he needed this money. The man took out a letter from his pocket and said, "I have $600 in this letter which I am sending to my sister. She loaned it to me, but she does not need it now. You take it." John did. Stewart was his name. We paid this loan the following year with our fruit crop.
We stayed in Emmett from 1902 to 1911. We were together here. We liked it here and enjoyed the orchard. I felt this was my talent for everyone seemed to think I did a fine job with the orchard, the caring of the trees, etc. This was a beautiful farm, with the forty acres of fruit and berries on the one side of the Payette River, and 160 acres on the other side. We had a beautiful grove of trees.
I was a home missionary here. I was asked to travel from one ward to another throughout the stake and give talks. I was the largest tithe payer in this locality. Bishop Nelson of our ward made this remark to John. I was powerfully happy; we had more money than we had seen in years and better property. Because of a privately owned construction water company from the east, the assessments became unbearable for the use of the water for the farm, so we moved to Bliss, Idaho. We lived here one year and moved to Lost River and bought a 320 acre farm. We lived here twelve years.
When we first lived at Lost River, we belonged to the Moore Ward. President Melvin J. Ballard made a trip to Lost River and asked me to come to Darlington to a meeting. At the meeting he asked me to be the president of the newly organized Darlington Branch and I accepted after Brother Ballard sang "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go Dear Lord." Later there was a stake organized in Lost River and Darlington Branch became the Darlington Ward. I was made bishop of this ward. While I was bishop, the Ward built a beautiful brick chapel. I donated a $1000 to this building. When the World War broke out, Ralph volunteered. This was in April 1917.
During the summer of 1918, Brother Ballard held a conference at Leslie. The entire family attended, Ralph being in the army at this time. Brother Ballard's message to the people was a need for missionaries. After this meeting Roy walked up and volunteered. Was I surprised He left in September for the Southern States Mission.
We moved from Lost River to Heyburn and bought an eighty acre farm. The following year we moved to Chinook, Montana, but even though we remained here three years, we did not buy a place. In the spring of 1928 we came to Paul, Idaho and bought forty acres of land and made a new start. We lived on this farm for eight years and then sold it to Bishop Greene.
I have had a great deal of joy and satisfaction in owning the little place where we are now living. We have painted and fixed it up so that we are comfortable.
I am now eighty years old and at this time I am happy to say that we own our place and do not owe anyone a cent. I have endeavored all my life to be straightforward and honest. I still enjoy at this age reading, milking my cows, and being my own boss.
Compiled by Geneva Day West - June 15, 1947
Reviewed and retyped by Elaine M. West Jensen - January 19, 1997
Geneanet Community Trees Index
Name: Erastus Horace West Birth Date: 10 janv. 1867 (10 Jan 1867) Birth Place: Parowan, Iron, Utah Territory, Utah Death Date: 29 sept. 1957 (29 Sep 1957) Death Place: Burley, Cassia, Idaho
Father: John Anderson West Mother: Betsey Jane Fish
