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Owen A. WEST

Owen A. WEST

Male 1872 - 1938  (66 years)


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  • Name Owen A. WEST
    Birth 16 May 1872  Upshur Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2] 
    Gender Male
    Census 1880  Upshur Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Residence 1894  Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Census 1900  Paw Paw District, Marion Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation 1900  [2] 
    coal miner 
    Residence 1900  Marion Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [3] 
    Residence 1918  West Finley, Washington Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1920  West Finley, Washington Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Census 1930  Ashland Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation farmer  [4, 5] 
    Death 2 Jul 1938  Ashland, Ashland Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Burial Maple Grove Cemetery, Ashland, Ashland Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Notes 
    • Researchers differ on the sequence of Owen A. West's three wives. The dates of his marriages to Eva Palmer and Ellen Watton are verified through marriage records. His marital status at the time of his 1894 marriage to Eva Palmer was listed as single, and at his 1900 marriage to Ellen Watton as widowed. Census records of 1920 and 1930 show him with his wife Mary.

      1900 Census, Marion Co, WV (Paw Paw District), enumerated on Jun 25 1900:
      Owen West, 28, b. May 1872, miner, married under 1 yr; wife Icy, 19, b. May 1881, no children.
      (Note: The adjoining household was the family of Thomas and Rebecca Watton, parents of Owen West's wife.)

      The two children of Owen West and Eva Palmer have not been found in the 1900 Census. In the 1910 Census, they were living in a foster home in Pennsylvania.
      1910 Census, Washington Co, PA (Donegal Twp), enumerated on Apr 30 1910:
      William A. Bonar, 55, b. Pa, stock farmer, single; sister Jennie Bonar, 53, b. Pa, single; foster dau Edna M. West, 15, b. WVa; foster son H. Carson West, 12, b. WVa.

      1920 Census, Washington Co, Pennsylvania (West Finley Twp), enumerated on Jan 7 1920:
      Owen West, 47, b. WVa, farmer; wife Mary, 37, b. Pa; son Owen, 2 yr 6 mo, b. Pa (father b. W.Va, mother b. Pa)

      1930 Census, Ashland Co, Ohio (Orange Twp), enumerated on Apr 23 1930:
      Owen A. West, 57, b. WVa, farmer; wife Mary E, 47, b. Pa; son Earnest O, 12, b. Pa.
    Person ID I24059  Doddridge County Roots
    Last Modified 29 Jun 2012

    Father John Jackson WEST,   b. 3 Dec 1837, Harrison Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jan 1906, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
    Mother Mary Elizabeth COZAD,   b. 29 Mar 1840, Lewis Co, (W)VA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Feb 1922, Big Isaac, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years)
    Family ID F9007  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Eva PALMER,   b. 17 Sep 1877, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Apr 1899 (Age 21 years)  [6]
    Marriage 10 Mar 1894  Lost Creek, Harrison Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 7] 
    Children 
    +1. Edna Mabel WEST,   b. 3 Apr 1895, Big Isaac, Doddridge Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 Aug 1988, Washington, Washington Co, PA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 93 years)
     2. Hansen Carson WEST,   b. 5 Sep 1897, West Virginia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef Aug 1988 (Age 90 years)
    Family ID F9010  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Ellen Icy WATTON,   b. 17 May 1881   d. 15 Jan 1960, Zanesville, Muskingum Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 78 years)
    Marriage 3 Mar 1900  Rivesville, Marion Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 8] 
    Children 
     1. Inez WEST,   b. 1900   d. 14 Feb 1931, Wheeling, Ohio Co, WV Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years)
     2. Elmore Jackson WEST,   b. 17 Dec 1902   d. 22 Oct 1959, Fowlersville, Livingston Co, MI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)
     3. William Burr WEST,   b. 6 Jun 1904, Morgan Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Apr 1933, Zanesville, Muskingum Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 28 years)
     4. Frank WEST,   b. CA 1907, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Pearl WEST,   b. Feb 1909, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location
    Family ID F9011  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 3 Mary ERNEST,   b. CA 1883, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [1]
    Children 
     1. Owen Earnest WEST,   b. 15 Jul 1917, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Feb 1978, Ashland, Ashland Co, OH Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years)
    Family ID F9009  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S1623] William F. Donnelly, The Wests of Duck Creek, Harrison County, Virginia (now West Virginia), (Gateway Press, Baltimore MD, 1997), p. 418.

    2. [S2246] 1900 Census, Marion County, WV.

    3. [S1835] Marion County Marriage Records, Fairmont, WV.

    4. [S1734] 1920 Census.

    5. [S1898] 1930 Census.

    6. [S1564] Obituary of daughter.

    7. [S1654] Harrison County Marriage Records, Clarksburg, WV, MR p. 228 : http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=23215&Type=Marriage.
      Identified as O. A. West, single, 21, b. Upshur Co, res. Harrison Co, son of J. J. & M. E. West; and Eva Palmer, 16, b. & res. in Harrison Co, dau of William & Mary J. Palmer. Married Mar 10 1894 at Lost Creek, W.Va. Informants for marriage license: O. A. West & Earl Palmer.

    8. [S1835] Marion County Marriage Records, Fairmont, WV, MR p. 79 : http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_view.aspx?Id=12528759&Type=Marriage.
      Identified as Owen A. West, widowed, 27, b. Upshur Co, res. Marion Co; and Ellen Watton, 19, b. Doddridge Co, res. Marion Co. Married Mar 3 1900 at Rivesville, Marion County, W.Va. Written consent given by Rebecca Watton, mother of Ellen Watton.