Perry Franklin West was born on Sunday, May 16, 1875, in Proctor, Wetzel County, West Virginia. His parents were Benjamin F. West (Tuesday, June 20, 1837 - Tuesday, May 6, 1890) and Sarah Anne Cain West (September 1841 - ? ). His parents were married on Tuesday, March 13, 1860, in Proctor, Wetzel County, West Virginia. His father was a blacksmith.
Perry was working on farm when he married Mary Horner in 1908. He was thirteen years her senior. On Thursday, September 12, 1918, he completed his World War I draft registration form. Mary was listed as his nearest relative. They lived in Bellaire, Belmont County, Ohio. Perry was listed as a laborer for the Scott Lumber Company in Bridgeport, a village in Belmont County, Ohio.
On the 1920 U.S. Census Perry is listed as living with his mother. He is identified as a laborer in a "glass house." During the 1920's Mary and Perry divorced and she married John Frederick Kniepkamp, twenty-eight years her senior.
Perry is listed on the 1930 U.S. Census with patients at the San Bernardino County Hospital in California. Perry was the only patient on that census page identified as divorced. He passed away on Friday, June 3, 1932, in San Bernardino, San Bernardino County, California.
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