The West Family

SAMUEL WEST came to South Carolina from England on the ship Carolina. He was a member of the First Colonial Parliament of South Carolina, under Lock’s Constitution; he was a commoner in the Grand Council of South Carolina. He died about 1706. One of the children of Samuel West and his wife (name unknown) was Samuel West, Jr.
SAMUEL WEST, JR. lived in St. Andrews Parish, South Carolina. He was tax commissioner of Charlestown Neck in 1729. He married Sarah Butler. She was a sister of Shen Butler. Samuel died in 1731; Sarah in 1734. One of the children of Samuel and Sarah West was Charles West.
CHARLES WEST was born in 1720, at Westfield, Georgia. He was an officer in the Colonial forces. He died in 1768. One of the children of Charles West and his wife (name unknown) was William West.
WILLIAM WEST was a major in the Revolutionary War. He married Hannah Sharp, who was born in 1762. One of their children was Dr. Charles West, II.
DR. CHARLES WEST, II, was born in 1790. He lived at Savannah, Georgia. He married Sarah Evelyn Nephew, daughter of James Nephew, and his wife, Mary Magdalen Gignilliat. One of their children was James Nephew West.
JAMES NEPHEW WEST lived at Savannah, Georgia. In 1846, he married Isabella Dennison Atchison. One of their children was Charles Stuart West.
CHARLES STUART WEST lived in Kentucky. He later moved to Corsicana, Texas. In 1893, he married Susan Hardy, who was born in 1855. Charles West died in 1908. Charles and Susan West had two children:

1. Susybelle West, born in  1896.   She married Marion Church, a prominent attorney  of Dallas,  Texas.   Both are  deceased.   The Churches had no children.
2. Margaret West, born at Corsicana, Texas, on December 6, 1898.
   She married William Scott Wilkinson.

The West family thus merges with the Wilkinson family.