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Texas Deaths, 1890-1976
Name: Eva Catherine Cooke Event Date: 15 Jul 1976 Event Place: Beaumont, Jefferson, Texas Age: 67 Birth Date: 21 Apr 1909 Birthplace: Missouri Father's Name: James C West Mother's Name: Ella Spiess
Record Number: 54247
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Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920
Name: Lewis West Event Date: 29 Jan 1871 Event Place: Barry, Missouri Spouse's Name: Celia Jane Carney
United States Census, 1880
Name: Lewis West Event Place: Linden, Christian, Missouri Age: 30 Occupation: Physician Birth Year (Estimated): 1850 Birthplace: Missouri Father's Birthplace: North Carolina Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina
Sheet Letter: C Sheet Number: 68 Person Number: 0 Volume: 1
Role Sex Age Birthplace
Lewis West Self Male 30 Missouri
Celie J West Wife Female 25 Missouri
Alla West Daughter Female 9 Missouri
William West Son Male 7 Missouri
Rufus West Son Male 3 Missouri
Lula West Daughter Female 0 Missouri
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United States Census, 1900
Name: Lewis West Event Place: Monett Township Monett city Ward 1-3, Barry, Missouri Age: 50 Birth Date: Jan 1850 Birthplace: Missouri Marriage Year (Estimated): 1894 Father's Birthplace: N Carolina Mother's Birthplace: N Carolina Sheet Letter: B Sheet Number: 15
Role Sex Age Birthplace
Lewis West Head Male 50 Missouri
Laura West Wife Female 37 Indiana
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United States Census, 1910
Name: L West Event Place: Monett Ward 1, Barry, Missouri Age: 60 Marital Status: Widowed Birth Year (Estimated): 1850 Birthplace: Missouri Father's Birthplace: Missouri Mother's Birthplace: Missouri Sheet Letter: B Sheet Number: 6
Household Role Sex Age Birthplace
L West Head Male 60 Missouri
Anna F West Wife Female 37 Illinois
Frieda West Daughter Female 2 Missouri
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United States Census, 1920
Name: Louis West Event Place: Monett Ward 2, Barry, Missouri Age: 69 Can Read: Yes Can Write: Yes Own or Rent: Own Birth Year (Estimated): 1851 Birthplace: Missouri
Father's Birthplace: North Carolina Mother's Birthplace: North Carolina Sheet Letter: B Sheet Number: 9
Role Sex Age Birthplace
Louis West Head Male 69 Missouri
Anna F West Wife Female 44 Illinois
Freda E West Daughter Female 12 Missouri
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Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991
Name: William M West Event Date: 18 Apr 1900 Event Place: Barry, Missouri Age: 26 Birth Year (Estimated): 1874 Spouse's Name: Bird Raupp Spouse's Age: 21 Spouse's Birth Year (Estimated): 1879
U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999
Name: William M. West Age: 26 Birth Date: abt 1874 Residence Date: Abt 1900 Residence Place: Monett Marriage Date: Abt 1900 Spouse: Bird Raupp
Missouri, County Marriage, Naturalization, and Court Records, 1800-1991
Name: W M West Event Date: 21 Jun 1903 Event Place: Barry, Missouri Spouse's Name: Mattie Shelby
United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Name: William West Event Date: 1917-1918 Event Place: Christian, Missouri Birth Date: 14 Sep 1874 Birthplace: Christian, Missouri Citizenship Place: United States
United States Census, 1910
Name: William M West Event Place: Monett Ward 2, Barry, Missouri Age: 36 Birth Year (Estimated): 1874 Birthplace: Missouri Father's Birthplace: Missouri Mother's Birthplace: Missouri
Sheet Letter: A Sheet Number: 21
Role Sex Age Birthplace
William M West Head Male 36 Missouri
Mollie West Wife Female 35 Missouri
Georgia West Daughter Female 8 Missouri
United States Census, 1920
Name: William M West Event Place: Monett Ward 2, Barry, Missouri Age: 46 Can Read: Yes Can Write: Yes Own or Rent: Own Birth Year (Estimated): 1874 Birthplace: Missouri
Father's Birthplace: Virginia Mother's Birthplace: Missouri Sheet Letter: B Sheet Number: 2
Role Sex Age Birthplace
William M West Head Male 46 Missouri
Mattie M West Wife Female 44 Missouri
Georgia B West Daughter Female 18 Missouri
United States Census, 1930
Name: William M West Event Place: Monett, Barry, Missouri Age: 56 Birth Year (Estimated): 1874 Birthplace: Missouri Father's Birthplace: Virginia Mother's Birthplace: Missouri
Sheet Letter: B Sheet Number: 11
Role Sex Age Birthplace
William M West Head Male 56 Missouri
Mattie A West Wife Female 55 Missouri
United States Census, 1940
Name: Wm M West Event Place: Ward 2, Monett, Monett Township, Barry, Missouri Last Place of Residence: Same House Age: 66 Marital Status: Widowed Birth Year (Estimated): 1874 Birthplace: Missouri
U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current
Name: William W. West Death Age: 76 Birth Date: abt 1875 Residence Place: Monett Death Date: Abt 1951 Death Place: Spring-Field
Obituary Date: 9 Oct 1951 Obituary Place: Springfield, Missouri, USA Newspaper Title: Springfield Daily News
Child:
Georgia Bird Fernandez
Siblings:
Lula Meek
Freda Shnater
Ollle Pettit
OCR text: The Springfield News-Leader Location: Springfield, Missouri Issue Date: Tuesday, October 9, 1951 DR. WILLIAM W. WEST Funeral services for Dr. William W. West, of Monett. founder of St. Vincents hospital and prominent physician for more than half a century, will be held at 2:30 p.m. today In Mercer chapel there. The Rev. Sherman Erickson will officiate. Burial will be In Odd Fellows cemetery with Masonic graveside rites. Dr. West, 76, a native of Christian county, died Saturday in St. John's hospital. Spring-field. following s year's illness. He graduated from St. Louis University medical school, and served his interneshlp at St. Marys hospital there. In 1914 he established a hospital in Monett. and in 1927 and 1928 built St. Vincent's, opera ting it until 1943, whereupon he donated the building to St. Vincent, I.A.N., Sisters of Charity, a Catholic order. A member of Presbyterian church. Dr. West was also affiliated with Abou Ben Adhem Shrine in Springfield and active In Masonic work. During World War I he waa a captain in the Army medical corps, and organized Monett's Hobbs-Anderson post No. 93 of the American Legion, serving as its first commander. Professionally he was s member of Tri-County Medical association. American Medical association. and fellow in the American College of Surgeons. Dr. West hod served ss registrar of vital statistics in Monett since 1910. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Georgia Bird Fernandez, of New York; three sisters. Mrs. Lula Meek, of Los Angeles, Mrs. Freda Shnater of Park Ridge, 111., and Mrs. Ollle Pettit of Colorado Springs, Colo.
obit Posted 27 Jan 2012 by JeremiahBuntin
Funeral services were held in the Mercer Funeral Chapel in Monett Tuesday afternoon for Dr. William M. West, Monett physician and surgeon for a half a century, who passed away Saturday afternoon in St. John’s hospital in Springfield. The widely known surgeon had been suffering from heart disease for more than a year and had been virtually retired from his practice during the time.
The Rev. Sherman Erickson was the officiating minister and burial was in the Old Fellow cemetery under direction of the Mercer Funeral Home of Monett.
Dr. West started practice in Monett in 1899 and in 1914 established his first hospital there. He constructed Monett’s present hospital in 1927 and continued to operate it until 1941. In 1942 he presented it to the Vincentian Sisters of Catholic Church who operated it at present.
He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Georgia Fernandez of New York City; three sisters, Mrs. Lula Meek of Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Freda Shnaper of Park Ridge, Ill.; and Mrs. Allie Pettit of Colorado Springs. Other relatives include cousins, Mrs. Isaac Epperly, Mrs. John Sanders, and Mrs. Claud James of Shell Knob; Cluade Blythe of Cassville and Dr. Clyde Blythe of Aurora.
findagrave
Dr William Moore West BIRTH 28 Aug 1873 Christian County, Missouri DEATH 6 Oct 1951 (aged 78) Springfield, Greene County, Missouri BURIAL Monett IOOF Cemetery Monett, Lawrence County, Missouri
MEMORIAL ID 26418678
Spouse Bird Raupp West 1879-1902
Monett, Mo., Oct. 8 - Dr. William M. West, 78 years old, prominent Monett physician and surgeon, died Saturday in St. John's Hospital at Springfield.
Dr. West, who devoted 52 years of his life to medicine and surgery, founded the first hospital in Monett in 1914. In 1927 he built what now is St. Vincent's hospital. The institution was first known as West's hospital. He operated the hospital until November 17, 1943, when he gave it to the Vincentian Sisters of Charity.
Dr. West was instrumental in the organization of the Hobbs-Anderson American Legion post No. 93 and served as it first commander. He was a Mason and a member of About Ben Adhem Shrine at Springfield.
Active in medical circles, he belonged to the Tri-County Medical Association, the American Medical Association, was a fellow of the American College of Surgeons; served as local registrar of vital statistics for 41 years, and was a captain in the medical corps during World War I. He was a graduate of St. Louis university and served his internship at St. Mary's hospital in St. Louis. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Dr. West was born in Christian county, Missouri.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Georgia Bird Fernandez of New York, N. Y.; three sisters, Mrs. Lulu Meek of Los Angeles, Calif., Mrs. Freda Shnaper of Park Ridge, Ill., and Mrs. Ollie Pettit of Colorado Springs, Colo.
He was the son of L. West and Jane Carney
From Monett: The Centennial Salute 1887-1987
Dr. William West, a native of Ozarkian, was born near Ozark, Christian County, in August, 1873. His father was an M.D. then, but later practiced dentistry. After Will West graduated from the Marionville High School his father bought the Billings Times and put his son in charge of it. When the family came to Monett in 1892 young Will obtained a position on the Monett Daily Leader of which M. Y. Todisman was editor. But in 1894, on the advice and encouragement of Dr. Powers, an Early day surgeon of Monett, will West went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to enter the Electric Medical Institute. After Graduation he spent two years at St. Louis; the second year he was assistant to the chief surgeon, Dr. W. A. McCandles. In 1899 he came to Monett to begin his practice as a partner of Dr. Powers. Dr. West established his first hospital in the rooms over the Post Office which for many years was in an old frame building on the corner of Fourth Street and north of the first alley north of Broadway. He put in five beds and later had nine. Miss Virgina Hulse (Mrs. Warren Perry) came here as nurse in that hospital.
Dr. West closed his hospital and stored his equipment while he served in World War I as a volunteer medical captain in Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. He reopened the hospital on his return in the spring of 1919. He succeeded in October, 1921, in securing larger quarters by leasing from Mr. Amanda Wallace the rooming house at the corner of County Street and Sixth Street. In 1927 he began to erection of a brick hospital at the corner of Benton Street and Lincoln Avenue. It was opened to the public in May, 1928. In 1941 it was closed until April, 1942, when the United States Health Service opened it as an isolation hospital. It was closed again in November, 1943 when the facilities were moved to St. Louis. Dr. West immediately gave it to the Vincentian Sisters, who have since kept it open.
Dr. West in 1900 married Miss Bird Raupp, daughter of George Raupp, a pioneer business man of Monett and a brother of C. A. Raupp, a pioneer of Pierce City and father of Mrs. M.C. Shipley. His wife died leaving Dr. West with a daughter, Georgia Bird. Later Will West married Mattie Shelby, of another pioneer family. She died in 1934.
Dr. West and Dr. Russell both were deeply interested in the sanitary conditions in Monett. In those early days young men struggled hard for the training they received. Dr. West reports that he started to medical school with fifty dollars in his possession; Dr. Russell says he landed in Monett with two diplomas, his M.D. and Pharmacy, and twenty-five cents in his pocket.
Since the above written Dr. William West has died, October 6, 1951, of a heart ailment from which he suffered for about a year.
