Warren West
Warren West came from Beaver, Pennsylvania, where he was born March 27, 1814, to Lawrenceburgh, Maryland, along with five brothers and two sisters - of whom three brothers and both sisters are dead in 1826. His parents were from Massachusetts, and came from Pennsylvania early in life. Both descended from splendid ancestry. His father died in 1832 with the cholera; his mother died in the year 1863 or 1864. His father was Zeddrick, and his mother's maiden name Roxana Parsons. Two brothers - Stephen and Warren furnish the most extraordinary co-partnership in the annals of Hamilton county. For forty years they carried on business without a written agreement or settlement. Everything was held in common. They began poor boys and ended with almost fifteen hundred acres of splendid bottom land. The division was made at a cost of twenty-five dollars, and only a surveyor assisted. Stephen was married twice, and died August 28, 1879. Warren was married three times; first to Brilla Ann Ross; second to Mary Jane Hayes, daughter of Walter Hayes; third to Nancy, a widow, daughter of Joseph Hayes. From the three marriages have been born three sons and four daughters and ten grandchildren. Nancy West was born May 31, 1819, and married January 4, 1855, to Mr. West. Mrs. West has been the mother of two sons and three daughters. Her father was of English and her mother of Scotch descent. As a business man Mr. West made forty-five trips to New Orleans; has sold immense quantities of grain, and dealt a great deal in stock. As members of the Methodist church both are respected. They now in old age give a two-fold legacy to their descendants. They transmit to their offspring many choice parts.
From History of Hamilton County, Ohio, Henry & Kate Ford, L. A. Williams & Co., Publishers, 1881