When James Knox West was born on 12 November 1848, in Graves, Kentucky, United States, his father, John Carrol West, was 32 and his mother, Lucretia Choate, was 32. He married Lucinda A. Williams on 30 December 1874, in Dallas, Arkansas, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 5 daughters. He lived in Caddo Township, Clark, Arkansas, United States in 1910 and Clark, Arkansas, United States in 1920. He died on 9 December 1931, in Arkadelphia, Clark, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Clark, Arkansas, United States.
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According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
English and German: from Middle English, Middle High German west ‘west’, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the west of a settlement, or a habitational name for someone who had migrated from further west.
Americanized form of Finnish Vesterinen: from the personal name Vesteri (a short form of Sylvester ) + the surname suffix -nen.
History: This name was brought to North America independently by many bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries. Thomas West, 12th Baron De La Warre, was captain general of Virginia in 1610–11. The state of DE is named for him. One of the earliest permanent settlers was Francis West (1606–92), who came to Duxbury, MA, from Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, in or before 1638.
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