Elijah West

Birth Date

c1804

Death Date

1877-06-03

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Nicholas County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Amos West and Elizabeth Robbins West. Married to Mariah Barton Smoot West in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on May 21, 1827. Father of John West, Sarah West, William West, Mary West, Elizabeth M. West, George B. West, Virginia West, Laura West, Emma West, and Martha West. Married to Rosanna Hughes West in Nicholas County on October 13, 1863. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1850. Farmer in Nicholas County in 1860. Judge of the Nicholas County Court in 1863.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 2, p. 396A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 326.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, Carlisle, p. 279A.
Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863, Legislative Document Series, No. 10 (Frankfort, KY: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), p. 304.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Bourbon County Marriages, Film 000183086.
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nicholas County Marriages, Film 000252411.
William Henry Perrin, Robert Peter, and O.L. Baskin, History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky (Chicago: O.L. Baskin & co.,1882), 770.

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