Person:Amos West (1)

From the West/Fike MyFamily Web Site: Ben West - Jan 5, 2003 Viewers | Reply to this item John,

I appreciate your posting this information to the web site. Since you mentioned Amos S. West as an heir of Jesse West, I thought that I would share some of my Graves and Calloway Counties, Kentucky research findings with you.

From CEMETERIES OF CALLOWAY COUNTY "HEART OF THE JACKSON PURCHASE" by Judith Ann Maupin, June 1981, P. O. Box 954, Murray, KY 42071:

pp. 158-159 -- Lassiter Cemetery

p. 158

West M. L., 1878 - - ____

p. 159

West S. M., 1876- -1905 West Amos S., June 18, 1821- - Feb. 6, 1904 West Sarah J., wife of A S, Jan. 13, 1835- - Jan. 26, 1919 West Benjamin, son of M L & S M, died Sept. 25, 1900, age 2, 19 days West Samuel, Nov. 3-16, 1873 West Austin E., Sept. 8-18, 1877 West Sally, Jan. 12, 1876- - Dec. 12, 1911, no stone

From GRAVES COUNTY, KY. BIRTH RECORDS 1852 TO 1859 by Don Simmons, Simmons Historical Publications, P. O. Box 66, Melber, Ky. 42069, 1991:

p. 24

625 West, F. M. A. (m) Amos West and Mary Brown 3-22-1853

p. 39

1041 West, C. J. R. (m) A. West & M. A. Brown 4-30-1855

p. 46

1265 West, H. A. D. (m) A. West & M. A. Brown 5-30-1857

p. 74

2074 West, Mathew S. Amos West & Mary Ann Brown 6-16-1859.

From GRAVES CO., KY NEWSPAPER GENEALOGICAL ABSTRACTS VOLUME 10, Simmons Historical Publications, Melber, Ky. 42069, 1984:

Thur. 2-25-1904

p. 10

Uncle Amos West, an old man of Calloway Co., died Sat. morning and was buried Sun. at the Lassiter Graveyard near Swan. He died of paralysis.