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FROM THE BOOK THE CORY STORY
TOM WEST, OF GERMAN DESCENT( IT IS SAID THE NAME HAD BEEN WEUST), SON OF GEORGE AND MARY
WEST BORN IN 1807,CAME FROM
OHIO AND SETTLED AT FIVE POINTS, JUST SOUTH OF THE LATER SITE OF CORY IN., ABOUT 1837. HE
FOUGHT IN THE MEXICAN WAR, AND DIED SHORTLY AFTER HIS RETURN.
TOM WEST MARRIED RACHEL HICKSON, BORN 1803 DAUGHTER OF THOMAS HICKSON, VETERAN OF THE WAR
OF 1812, AND GRANDDAUGHTER OF ABNER HICKSON, OF NEW JERSEY, VET OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR,
TOM AND RACHEL HAD SEVEN CHILDREN JOHN, GEORGE, LIZZIE, WILLIAM, JAMES, ABNER, AND THOMAS.
IF THIS HELPS I HAVE MORE, I DESCEND FROM ELISHA SON OF EBENIZER AND MEHITABLE GILBERT
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