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bullet Robert Decatur West, Sr.
b. 5/26/1871 Kingsville, Missouri
m. 6/26/1895 Sedalia, Missouri
d. 6/28/1954 Kansas City, Missouri
Notes: Born at the West home near Kingsville, MO. Attended Business school in Sedalia MO in his early 20's. Worked for the Burlington Railroad in Nebraska and Wyoming and moved to Hot Springs, South Dakota as the Station Agent. Left Hot Springs in 1903 and moved to Sedalia, MO to work for the Missouri-Pacific Railroad.
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bullet Lydia Arabella Griggs
b. 12/25/1874 Sedalia, Missouri
d. 12/17/1944 Kansas City, Missouri
Notes: Had nine children and usually returned to Sedalia to have them. William Jessie, age 3 Months, died in her arms on a Street Car. She had Asthma and used burning powder as a treatment.
Griggs is a Sept name of MacGregor.
bullet Robert Delivan West, Jr.
b.  8/21/1897 Sedalia, Missouri
d. 12/9/1977
Notes: Spent his boyhood in Nebraska, Wyoming, Hot Springs, South Dakota, and Kansas City, Missouri. Enlisted in the US Army at Kansas City, Missouri on 23 July 1917 and served with Battery E, 128th Field Artillery, Camp Doniphan, Oklahoma from 5 August 1917 through 2 May 1918. Transferred to the 23rd Recruit Company, GSI, Jefferson Barracks, St Louis, Missouri, on 2 May 1918. Promoted to Corporal on 22 November 1918 and was discharged Honorably on 12 April 1919. Was a Refrigerator Mechanic in St Louis then was at Curtis Wright during WW II. Taught Labor Relations at St Louis University Night School. Sold Water Conditioning for Mogul. Retired at age 72.
bullet William Jesse West
b. 9/17/1898 Sedalia, Missouri
d. 12/20/1898
bullet Lucile Arabella West
b. 12/19/1899 Hot Springs, South Dakota
d. 3/2/1926
bullet George Henry West
b. 1/3/1901 Hot Springs, South Dakota
d. 6/20/1968
bullet Mabel Harriette West
b. 11/13/1902 Hot Springs, South Dakota
d. 3/10/1974
bullet Harold Griggs West
b. 5/11/1904 Hot Springs, South Dakota
d. 3/28/1918
bullet Paul Earl West
b. 4/14/1907 Sedalia, Missouri
d. 8/1/1974
bullet Margaret Alice West
b. 3/10/1913 Kansas City, Missouri
d. 3/1988
bullet Ellyne Roberta West
b. 9/14/1915 Kansas City, Missouri

 

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