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Subject: Re: Martha West Justice
Date: 21 Feb 2006 20:26:30 -0700
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Surnames: Daugherty West Cook Childress et al
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She had four sisters.
My grand aunt Rachel E. West (1886 SCT - abt 1955 Lake City, Anderson, TN); I remember her funeral but have no information on date. She married my grand uncle Hiram Dester Daugherty 8 Jan 1908 (fm family Bible, no other documentation known). They had four children that I know of.
My grandmother Mary Jane West (18 dec 1888 Oneida, SCT - 24 apr 1964 Oneida, bur. New Light Cem. Winfield, SCT). She married my grandfather William Jeffery Daugherty 10 Feb 1906 in Isham, SCT. They had 8 children, one died at birth and my father, Lawrence Vester Daugherty was one of the seven.
My grand aunt Amanda O. West (7 aug 1892 Winfield, SCT - 27 feb 1932 Winfield, bur. at New Light). She married Jesse Lay Hamby in 1908 SCT. They had five children that I know about.
My grand aunt Ester May West (18 jun 1902 Winfield, SCT - 26 jan 1977 Winfield, bur. at New Light). She was my favorite grand aunt, probably because she was around longer and I never knew Amanda. Anyway, Ester married Frederick Curtis Boyatt 1 mar 1919 SCT. They had eleven children some of whom were almost my contemporaries. The younger ones were in high school when I was in elementary school. About two years before marrying Ester, Fred had married an Ernestine. I know nothing but her name. Ernestine and their year old daughter Eva were with Fred in the 1920 SCT census and so was Ester. This is an enigma unless Ernestine is Ester and is listed twice somehow. I've seen stranger things in the census.
Martha also had three brothers of tragedy.
My elder grand uncle was Thomas Gradon West (nov 1894, Winfield, SCT - 20 jan 1932 Winfield, bur. New Light. He married Eva Boyatt 19 aug 1922 SCT. They had five children. Thomas shot and killed his brother David Culture West. He himself was shot and killed by Lester Boyatt when he tried to attack Lewis Harvey Boyatt, his father-in-law and Lester's father and Thomas' brother-in-law. Some say he was the nicest person until he had one of his "spells", which may have been alcohol induced. Ironically, a few years later Lester was shot and killed by his own son when he (Lester) tried to attack his own wife (the boy's mother).
My middle grand uncle was David Culture West (7 dec 1897, Winfield - 2 oct 1920 Winfield, bur. New Light). Culture was a private in the 6th Engineers in WWI, an outfit that was in some of the fiercest fighting in July through Oct 1918, leading up to the armistice. Tragically, he was killed by his own brother according to the family but another account says that he was shot and killed by Rice Slaven, brother of Osha Slaven, right after David shot and killed his uncle Frederick Jackson West. I don't know for sure. He married Vernie Stephens 28 feb 1920 SCT, just before being killed. She remarried to Thomas King 25 dec 1923 SCT and lived in Silerville, KY. She died in 1976.
My youngest grand uncle was Jeremiah Blaine West (22 feb 1900 sct - 27 jun 1937 sct, bur. New Light). Jerry never married. He was a corporal in the 4th Army Engineers assigned to the Marines during WWI and his unit saw the most atrocious fighting in Aisne-Marne, Vesle Sector and the Battle of the Marne and Verdun-sur-Meuse. He suffered through several gas attacks by the Germans. My relatives used to speak of him laying on the front porch at the old home near New Light, drunk out of his mind with his .45 cal pistol, shooting at anything that moved. He died of double pneumonia.
Their parents, my great-grand parents were William James West (Frederick Jackson West, Reason West, Charles P. West, Reuben West, Charles West, John West). He was born 19 aug 1863, Oneida and died 28 aug 1909, Winfield. He is buried at New Light. He married (12 oct 1882, SCT) Lucinda Strunk, daughter of James Isham and Mary Elizabeth King Strunk. Lucy lived 9 apr 1864, Whitley Co. (now McCreary) to 6 feb 1934, Winfield and is buried at New Light.
Did that answer your question? If I do not have proof of a certain date or fact, my cousin Wanda Daugherty Duty does.
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