JAMES L. WEST
                        Davis Mills, LA


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Source: Southwest Louisiana Historical and Biographical by William Henry Perrin
published in 1891; page 198.
Typed by Margaret Rentrop Moore


JAMES L. WEST, Davis Mills.- James L. West was born in Claiborne parish,
Louisiana, 1848. His father was a native of Mississippi, and was a farmer and
stock raiser; he died in 1887.   His widow still survives him and now
resides in Vernon parish.
The subject of this sketch is a farmer. He has a plantation of about three
hundred acres of fine land, where he resides. Mr. West is one of the successful
planters of this section. He was married, in 1869, to Miss Julia Lewis; they are
the parents of four children.