Birth: 1757 Loudoun County Virginia, USA
Death: Sep., 1845 Brushcreek Township Highland County Ohio, USAJoseph West Jr. was born iin Loudon County.VA. 1757.He was son of Joseph West Sr & Jane Owen. He married Judith Bainger in 1780 in Pittsylvania County,VA. She was born 1759.
Joseph was a private in the Revolutionary War.
Joseph Died September 1845. and was buried in the West Family cemetery which now is gone. and sealed off. this cemetery sits behind the homplace of the West family. and still standing today on Armstrong Rd. in Highland Co,Oh. have no date of death for Judith Ballinger.
Joseph's Will dated May 17th 1843 included Grandchildren. Joseph jr.John.Samuel N. James D.Clinton (When the last thre became of age) Children;John,James,Hugh,Joseph,Mary Murfin (Murphy),Isaac,Pleasant.Executor;Joseph Jr;Witnesses' Daniel N.Fulk,David Fulk Proven; September 23,1868.Note the grandchildren mention must be the children of Benjamin.
Children of Joseph West Jr and Judith Ballinger are;
=====================================================1.Mary Ann ''Polly West. b abt 1787,Highland Co Ohio. d bef 1856 Highland Co Ohio.
2. Hugh West bo abt 1787 d Dec 23,1867 Highland Co Ohio.
3.John West b abt 1789 H.C.Ohio m.Anna Barbara Platter.
4 James West b abt 1783 H.C.Ohio. d Dec 23 1851 H.C.Ohio.
5.Isaac N West b abt 1797 H.C.Ohio. d July 24 1851
6.Joseph West 111 b abt 1799 H.C.Ohio. d bef April 1856 Highland Co Ohio.
7 Pleasant West b 1801 H.C.Ohio. d bet 1855-1856 Iowa
Notes for Pleasant West; McBride Book; pages 247 and 248-Case listed as George Dogger and Elizabeth ,his wife vs David Turner et al on April 10,1856 It lists all of Pleasant's brothers and sisters,nieces and nephews.etc.because he died not leaving any heirs of his own body or a Will and he owned 148 acres on the waters of Brushcreek, a part of Kerr's Survey No 1269 in Highland Co Ohio.Pleasant West was a resident of Iowa,when he died.If his sisters and brothers were living only they were mentioned not their children.
Family links: Parents:
Joseph West (1719 - 1802) Jane Owen West (1720 - 1791)Children: James West (1793 - 1861) *
Burial: Old West cemetery, no longer in use Highland County Ohio, USA
Created by: barbara sterling Record added: Aug 05, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 94860498
25th infantry Army World War II, Japan.
*** Jesse Allen Vore (b. February 27, 1861, d. December 30, 1950)
Jesse Allen Vore (son of John Cadwalader Vore and Rachel R. Manning was born February 27, 1861 in Jay Co., Indiana, and died December 30, 1950 in East Chicago, Indiana. He married Lavina Margaret Barr on June 19, 1890 in Pennville, Jay Co, Indiana, daughter of John Hiatt Barr and Calista Samira Fields. Notes for Jesse Allen Vore:
My grandfather, Jesse Allen Vore, was born December 30, 1861 in Jay County, Indiana. According to our family notes, in 1874 at age 13, about a year after his mother, Rachel (Manning) Vore had died his father had remarried, and he went to live with his uncle "William" in Nuckols Co., Nebraska. His oldest brother, Henry Davis Vore went to live with his uncle Clarkson Vore in Illinois in 1876 and he and that family went on to settle in Nuckols Co. Nebraska in 1880. Since an uncle, Thomas C(?larkson) Vore did settle in Nuckols Co. Nebraska, it would appear that there were two uncles who settled in that region, but I have as yet not found any absolute evidence for an "uncle William". Land records in the Nuckols Co. court house show transactions between the uncle Thomas C. Vore and Addie Vore, the wife of Henry Davis Vore--Jesse Allen's brother. There is also a record of a land grant to Evan Vore, the eldest son of Thomas C. Vore. As a young man, Jesse Allen taught in a country school near Nelson, Nuckols Co. Nebraska. He had met Lavina Margaret Barr in Camden (Pennville), Jay County, Indiana while visiting his family in August of 1888. In his letters to Lavina, grandfather tells of his school near Edgar, Nebraska and mentions that "uncle's farm is about nine miles south of Edgar".The uncle's address is at Nelson, Neb., and I did find the location of the uncles farm just north of Nelson. In another letter he states that he is so lonely there although he has "a dear uncle and aunt and other relatives here that I think a good deal of". He is apparently very close to his youngest brother, Johney, In another letter he mentions that he doesn't have much in common with his other brothers since they are apparently not particularly religiously oriented. Johney was evidently dating "Libby" Somers, a first cousin of Lavina Barr's. He and probably his other brother, George Anderson Vore, visited in Nebraska in Oct. of 1988 for, grandfather wrote that he had gone to his brother's but had missed Johney who had gone with uncle to see relatives in Kansas and had stayed over there for a while. He also said that Johney liked Nebraska but George didn't. We do know that two of his other brothers, Henry Davis Vore and William Morgan Vore settled in that same area of Nebraska. The couple carried on an active correspondence from the fall of1888 to May of 1890 with most of the letters filled with the activities of their churches and the problems that they were having in their religious lives. Libby Somers visited grandfather in the spring of 1890 and then went on to visit some of her relatives who lived about a days drive across the border into Kansas. Lavina and Jesse were married on June 19, 1890 in Camden, Indiana and settled in Nelson, Nebraska where he continued to teach school. After the first two children were born, they moved back to Indiana because Grandmother couldn't stand the incessant winds of the prairie. He worked in a glass factory at Upland Ind., and as a grocery clerk. In Upland, Ind. they transfered from the Methodist Church to the Free Methodist Church, and in the fall of1905 he began preaching in the Free Methodist church with appointments in Bluffton (1905-1906), Elkhart (1906-1907) and Granger (1907-1908), Indiana. In 1908 the couple adopted, or at least took into their home Rachel Vera Shiflet, a relative on my grandmother's side. Mother always refered to her as cousin Rachel. She lived with the family till 1920, but I know nothing more about her. Grandfather also served church points at Bainbridge (1908-1911) and Lawrence, Michigan (1912-1913). The family moved to Spring Arbor in the fall of1913 to place the children in the Free Methodist school while grandfather worked in Jackson as an inspector for the Huppmobile auto company. That first winter at Spring Arbor, my father, William Lloyd Stephenson, was hired to do the heavy work around the house for his board and room. Mary and Lloyd were married Dec. 25, 1916 in the Free Methodist parsonage by D. M. Wells.
After service in France during World War I, Hugh entered college at Greenville, Ill. and he and Esther stayed in an apartment during his last year in college. In 1921, after Hugh's graduation, grandmother moved with the two girls to Greenville, Illinois, where Esther and Grace were attending College. Later, in 1922 and 1923, grandmother ran a rooming house in Ann Arbor for U. of M. students while the girls attended the university and where Hugh was in medical school after the death of his first wife, Louise (Ward) Vore. Grandfather continued to work in Jackson during those years. In the fall of 1923 the family moved to Jackson and a year later back to Spring Arbor for a permanent residence. As I recall him, he was a very quiet little man, but very strict with us children.
Still he was always kind and we loved him dearly. I must admit that I was never that fond of grandmother. Once during one of our infrequent conversations he told me that his people had come to Pennslyvania from Holland. It seems that he suggested that the name had originally been different--maybe Van Vore, but that talk was a very long time ago when I was only a little boy. I never heard anything about the name change from anyone else. In 1945, my grandparents moved to East Chicago, Ind. to live with their son, Hugh. Grandmother died in East Chicago, Indiana on Jan. 10, 1948, and Grandfather died on Dec. 30, 1950. They are buried at Spring Arbor, Michigan. wfs. More About Jesse Allen Vore: Burial: Spring Arbor, Jackson Co, Michigan. More About Jesse Allen Vore and Lavina Margaret Barr: Marriage: June 19, 1890, Pennville, Jay Co, Indiana. Children of Jesse Allen Vore and Lavina Margaret Barr are:
+Esther Lavina Vore, b. March 16, 1899, Pennville, Indiana, d. August 26, 1986, Santa Cruz, California.
*** Lavina Margaret Barr (b. January 15, 1867, d. January 10, 1948)
Lavina Margaret Barr (daughter of John Hiatt Barr and Calista Samira Fields was born January 15, 1867 in Wells Co., Indiana, and died January 10, 1948 in East Chicago, Indiana. She married Jesse Allen Vore on June 19, 1890 in Pennville, Jay Co, Indiana, son of John Cadwalader Vore and Rachel R. Manning. Notes for Lavina Margaret Barr:
Lavina Margaret Barr was born on Jan. 15, 1867 in Wells County, Ind. Her father's health was damaged by a Civil War Injury and imprisonment and after the death of her mother, Grandmother Vore was left with the responsibility for the care of the rest of the family. She was about twenty-one years of age at the time and had a dress-making shop for the five years before her marriage to Jesse Allen Vore in June of 1890. She was unable to obtain the education which she desired to become a writer. Perhaps that explains her later insistance upon education for her own family at seemingly any cost to herself and her husband. Among the guests listed at the the wedding were John H., Calista, Jacob, and James Barr, Matilda (Barr) Ridgeway, Jacob and Nancy (Coats) Barr, (the parents of Retta Barr), Sallie Barr, and Willaim Barr. I do not know the relationship of the latter individuals. The couple spent the next five years in the vicinity of Nelson, Nebraska where the first two children were born. It is reported that she couldn't stand the "incessant wind" of Nebraska and the family returned to Indiana in 1895. She was an extremely religious woman after her conversion in the Methodist Church in Pennville, Ind. and was probably instrumental in having her husband serve as a Free Methodist minister for a number of years. Later they moved to Spring Arbor, Michigan to put the children in school, and after that she took the children first to Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois and then to the Univ. of Mich. at Ann Arbor, for advanced education. While there she managed one of the University men's rooming houses. Her husband continued to work in Jackson, Michigan until the educational migrations were completed, and they retired and lived in Spring Arbor until health forced them to live with their son, Hugh, in East Chicago, Ill. She died there on Jan 10, 1948 and is buried at Spring Arbor, Michigan. More About Lavina Margaret Barr: Burial: Spring Arbor, Jackson Co, Michigan. More About Lavina Margaret Barr and Jesse Allen Vore: Marriage: June 19, 1890, Pennville, Jay Co, Indiana. Children of Lavina Margaret Barr and Jesse Allen Vore are:
+Esther Lavina Vore, b. March 16, 1899, Pennville, Indiana, d. August 26, 1986, Santa Cruz, California.
Esther Lavina Vore (b. March 16, 1899, d. August 26, 1986)
Esther Lavina Vore (daughter of Jesse Allen Vore and Lavina Margaret Barr) was born March 16, 1899 in Pennville, Indiana, and died August 26, 1986 in Santa Cruz, California. She married John William Clark Aylard on June 14, 1927, son of John Aylard and Maria Eliza Clark. Notes for Esther Lavina Vore: ESTHER LAVINA VORE 1899-1986 Esther Lavina Vore was born on March 16, 1899 at home in the Wilbur Chandler house ln Pennvllle, Indiana. Jesse Allen and Margaret Lavina Vore moved their family to Spring Arbor, Michiyan in 1913 so that the children, Mary Leah, Hugh Allen, Esther Lavina and Leola Grace could attend Spring Arbor Seminary. Esther graduated from high school with the class of 1917.
Esther began her College career at Greenlville College, Illinois. Her mother and sister, Grace, took an apartment to enable the girls to attend college. In the fall of 1922 to keep Esther and Grace at University and give Hugh a home while at University of Michigan Medical School, her mother managed a university mens rooming house near the campus. Esther received her B A in Literature, Science, and the Arts from the University of Michigan in 1923. She taught math, French and Biology in Evansville, Wisconsin for two years, and returned to Spring Arbor to teach latin and math at Spring Arbor Seminary during 1926-27.
Esther met Clark William Aylard, a teacher at the Seminary, and they married June 14, 1927. Roger Fulton came along December 6, 1928, followed by John Allen on March 15, 1931, Vern Earl on May 2, 1932, and Donavon Lee on September 1, 1933. While working on his Masters degree, crippling bouts of arthritis put Clark in the hospital at U. of M. in 1935. It was recommended by Dr. Hugh Vore that he seek a more equitable climate. Clark built a house trailer and the family left for Arizona in July of 1936. After a year of travel, camping out, and job seeking, the family moved to California in November 1937. After more camping in the Los Angeles area during 1937-38, Clark found work and they were able to move into houses on Kiowa Street and then Wilshire Court in West Los Angeles. More family moves were required as Clark taught at Tulare, Independence, and Fort Bragg high schools between 1942 and l947 with other jobs in Santa Cruz snd Redwood City.
In 1947 Esther and Clark purchased a lot and built and enlarged a pre-cut cabin in Windsor, California so the boys could attend High school and Junior college in nearby Santa Rosa. In 1949-50 Esther taught grades 1-8 in a one room school at the milling town of Branscomb, California. In 1953 Esther moved with the boys to San Jose so they could attend San Jose State University. Clark remained in Santa Rosa and sold the house.
Thus began two decades of buying, repairing, up-grading, and re-selling some 12 properties to provide a stable income for themselves. Despite blood problems, angina, and glaucoma, Esther outlived Clark by 10 years and died on August 26, 1986 of heart failure in Santa Cruz, California. More About Esther Lavina Vore and John William Clark Aylard: Marriage: June 14, 1927 Children of Esther Lavina Vore and John William Clark Aylard are:
+Roger Fulton Aylard, b. December 06, 1928, Jackson, Michigan.