Brief Life History of Lydia Clementine
When Lydia Clementine West was born on 21 April 1840, in Wadesboro, Calloway, Kentucky, United States, her father, Samuel Walker West, was 36 and her mother, Margaret Cooper, was 35. She married Jacob Gates on 13 July 1856, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She lived in Kanosh, Millard, Utah, United States in 1880 and Graham, Arizona, United States in 1910. She died on 24 January 1912, in Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Safford Cemetery, Safford, Graham, Arizona, United States.
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- Lydia West in household of Saml West, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Lydia Clementine West - Individual or family possessions: Family genealogies: birth: 21 April 1840; Calloway, Kentucky, United States
- Lydia Clementine West Freeman, "Find A Grave Index"
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1847
Historical Boundaries: 1847: Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States
1850 · 8th Most Populated State
According to the 1850 census Kentucky was the 8th most populated state with 982,405 people.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Name Meaning
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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