Kentucky:  A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, Kniffin 1st ed., 1885
Reprinted 1972 by Kentucky Reprint Co., Murray, KY.
Graves Co.

AMOS WEST was born September 27, 1837, in Logan County, Ky.  He is a son
of Richard and Amy (Williamson) West.  The father was born in Logan 
County, and died March 4, 1841, at the age of thirty-five.  The mother
was born in Virginia, and died in June, 1880, aged sixty-seven.  Amos
West came to Graves County with his mother in 1846, and assisted on her
farm and attended the neighboring schools.  After attending the Linden
Seminary, Tennessee, he returned to Graves County, where he taught school
for three years.  At the breaking out of the war, he entered the
Confederate Army, and in February, 1862, he was promoted to the rank of
second lieutenant, which position he held until the close of the war,
when he returned to Mayfield and secured a position as clerk with
Smith & McElrath.  He remained with the firm for two years, then with
Mr. Hobson opened a grocery store, at the same time handling leaf
tobacco.  After continuing in the business for three years he sold out
his interest in the grocery business.  He was appointed by Judge
Crossland circuit court commissioner, and held the position for two 
years.  Mr. West was married on December 20, 1870, to Olivia Collins
of Mayfield by whom he has two children - one son and one daughter.  
Mr. West is a member of the Masonic fraternity.

West Williamson Smith McElrath Hobson Crossland Collins
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Logan-KY VA TN

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