Pvt
Jeffrey
West
Born about in Rhea County, Tennessee
Ancestors 
Son of Isaac West Jr
and Mary (Lester) West
Brother of
Warren West, Susan (West) Thompson, Matilda (West) Barnett, Charlotte (West) Barnett, Mary Ann (West) Womack and Eliza (West) Cash
Husband of
Ollinda (Smith) West
— married
24 Sep 1843 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Thomas Conley West
Died
at about age 44
in Camp Morton, Indianapolis, Indiana
Profile last modified
| Created 9 Feb 2011
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Biography
Jeffrey West, Private, 26th Tennessee Infantry, Company E.
Resident of Rhea County, Tennessee. Husband of Orlinda. Children: Leah, Warren and Napolean.[1] Enlisted July 24, 1861, Camp Cummings. Captured February 16, 1862, Fort Donelson. Died July 15, 1862, Indianapolis.[2]
- 1850 Census
- Jeffrey West M 30 Tennessee Farmer
- Orlinda West F 30 Tennessee
- Leah A West F 6 Tennessee
- Warren West M 4 Tennessee
- Napolean West M 0 Tennessee
- 1862 Death
- Pvt Jeffrey West
- Birth: unknown
- Death: July 15, 1862
- Family links: Spouse: Ollinda Smith West (1820 - 1888)
- Burial: Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
- Plot: Confederate Burial
- Inscription: Co E 26th Inf TN
- Note: Died as a Confederate Prisoner of War at Camp Morton, originally interred at Green Lawn Cemetery (Confederate Section), but reinterred in 1933 in a mass grave of 1616 Confederate POW'S at Crown Hill.[3]
Sources
- ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, (FamilySearch.org : accessed 14 October 2015), Jeffrey West, Rhea county, part of, Rhea, Tennessee, United States; citing family 414, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- ↑ Compiled service records of Confederate Soldiers who served in organizations from the State of Tennessee, Archives.gov, referenced August 21, 2018.
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #7064114
Acknowledgements
- This person was created through the import of Blickensderfer.ged on 09 February 2011.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jeffrey by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jeffrey:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jeffrey by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jeffrey:
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~3.12%
Diane (Purcell) Dean
:
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Gina Pettus :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A475131 [compare]
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~0.78%
~12.50%
Tom Pettus :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A316177 [compare], Ancestry member trrpettus77
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~0.78%
~6.25%
Anne Pettus :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A143986 [compare]
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~0.78%
Annette (Lester) Saunders :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T589645 [compare], FTDNA kit #448719
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~0.39%
Terry West :
MyHeritage DNA, GEDmatch JL9686960 [compare]
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