Jim West

Their children are:

1)      William Claude, born May 26, 1885 and died May 17, 1944 was married to Bessie.

2)      Frank, born 1887 and died 1955, married Ida Weaver, sister to Asa Weaver.

3)      Charlie West married Della Green.

4)      Walter married Lena Reed.

5)      Olam, died 1898 and is buried at Bourland Cemetery.

Jim’s brother, Miles West, was married to Ella Stateham.  They had three children:

1)      Ernest

2)      Doyle

3)      Verna

Miles owned a hardware store.  Others were farmers.

Mrs. Bessie Anderton was born near the Court House on Weatherford Street on

April 4, 1901.  Her parents came from Indiana as single people by wagon train.  They met

and married in Hurst in the late 1870’s or early 1880’s.  Claude West worked driving a

horse drawn water wagon when water was not piped to all houses for 10 cents a barrel. 

Then he worked guarding convicts.  He later worked for the Fort Worth Fire Department. 

Claude married Bessie in 1923.  She worked at Striplings and he would take her to work

when she missed the jitney.  Claude and Bessie had no children and after he died, she

married a second time to Nolan Anderton, a native of Birdville.

Frank and Ida West had no children.

Charlie and Della West’s children were:

1) J.C. (Shorty)

2) Buster, died and buried at Bourland Cemetery.

3) Lula, married Dutton.

4) Ruby

5) Eva

The West’s were Primitive Baptists.