General Notes

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From "A Biographical History of Hendricks County" (1895):
Page 1074:

COLUMBUS WEST, of Pecksburg, Indiana., is one of the leading farmers of Hendricks county. The family were old settlers of North Carolina, Chatham county, and there Abraham West, of Scotch-Irish descent, and the found of the family in America, was born, and there married Sanai, daughter of Jacob and Phoebe Hadley. Mr. West moved to Hendricks county, Indiana., in 1828, settling in the woods in Clay township, where he entered and bought 600 acres of land, and died in 1856, at about sixty-two years of age.