Life History

Notes

• Mike Taylor listed the children of Marick West and Edith Colista McHanie as follows:
  
  Perry West
  John West, b abt 1798 in South Carolina, received a land grant in Bosque County, Texas
  Precious West b 29 May 1803 Spartanburg, South Carolina, d 11 June 1891, Pickens Co, Georgia
  Mary Ann West b abt 1807 in South Carolina
  James West b abt 1811 in South Carolina, d after 1880 in Pickens County, Georgia
  Willis West b abt 1815 in South Carolina, minister of Talking Rock Baptist Church, Pickens Co, Georgia; bought land in Bosque County, Texas
  and
  Eber West b abt 1816 in South Carolina, d May 1864 in Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia
  Some of the above information came from Ancestors of Benjamin West, by Mike Taylor
  --  Mike Taylor, http://pages.sbcglobal.net/mike_in_katy/benjaminwest.txt
  
  Ron West provided the link to Mary West Rumera's genealogy of the West lineage.  For George West, born ca 1776, she has a list of children.  Her list lacks a George W West, thought by some West researchers to also be a son of George and his wife Colista McHanie.
  
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  GEORGE WEST (BENJAMIN, WILLIAM, JOSEPH P) was born 1776 in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, and died 1859 in Gilmer County, Georgia. He married EDITH COLISTA MCHANIE Abt. 1797 in South Carolina. She was born Abt. 1778, and died Aft. 1850 in Gilmer County, Georgia.
  
  Children of GEORGE WEST and EDITH MCHANIE are:
  
  i. KENDRICK5 WEST.
  
  ii. JOHN WEST, b. Abt. 1798, South Carolina.
  
  102. iii. PRECIOUS PRICILLA WEST, b. May 29, 1803, South Carolina; d. June 11, 1891, Jewell, Pickens County, Georgia.
  
  103. iv. PERRY WEST, b. 1805; d. 1891.
  
  104. v. BENJAMIN WEST, b. 1806, South Carolina; d. Aft. 1880, Bosque County, Texas.
  
  vi. MARY ANN WEST, b. Abt. 1807, South Carolina; m. (1) GEORGE CAMPMIN; m. (2) MR GREENBERRY.
  
  105. vii. JAMES WEST, b. 1811, South Carolina; d. Aft. 1880, Talking Rocks, Pickens County, Georgia.
  
  106. viii. JANE WEST, b. 1812, South Carolina.
  
  107. ix. WILLIS WEST, b. 1815, South Carolina; d. Abilene, Texas.
  
  108. x. EBER WEST, b. 1817, South Carolina; d. 1863, Jasper (Talking Rock), Pickens County, Georgia.
  
  109. xi. MERRICK H. WEST, REV., b. April 10, 1821, South Carolina; d. 1862.
  --  Mary West Rumera, West Family, http://johnmarshallwest.com/Gen4.htm
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Sources

• 1. Mary West Rumera