George W. West 1838-1909

WEST, CORESINS, IRWIN, LEO

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 10/24/2010 at 17:07:40

George W. West Accidently Killed
Pioneer Settler of Emmet County Bursts Blood Vessel While Lifting a Horse
Was 72 Years of Age
Had Lived in This County on the Same Farm Over Forty-Three Years

Geo. W. West, one of the pioneer settlers of Emmet County, died near his home in Center township east of Estherville last Friday as a result of the bursting of a blood vessel in the brain. It seems that he started to drive to town when his team ran into a slough near by and got down and fast in the ice. In endeavoring to get them out Mr. West lifted too heavily and burst a blood vessel and dropped over and died almost immediately.

Geo. West was born in Tobbercorry County, Sligo, Ireland, Sept. 6, 1838. At the age of twenty-three he came to the United States. In April 1865 he enlisted as a private in Company F., 6th Regiment of New York volunteers and in August of the same years was mustered out with his company.

March 6, 1867 he was married to Miss Ann Coresins, at Anstenbury, Ohio. To this union fourteen children were born, twelve of whom are living, as follows: Robert, George, William, Francis Joseph, Charles, Thomas, Mrs. Mary Leo, Mrs. Ella Irwin, Misses Annie, Lillian and Hazel, all of whom were at the funeral except Joseph who was in the state of Washington.

In June 1868 he came to Emmet County and settled on a homestead four miles east of Estherville where he live dup to the time of his death, Friday, Dec. 10, 1909.

Deceased was an honorable man and one of the county’s best citizens. He endured the hardships incident to pioneer life without complaining and managed by industry and frugality to make a comfortable home for his declining years, which he enjoyed surrounded by his good wife and a large family of grown up sons and daughters.

The funeral was held form the M.E. church in this city Sunday afternoon. A very large concourse of friends and neighbors being present to pay their last respects to the departed. Interment was made in the East Side cemetery by the side of his son and daughter who died several years ago. (Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, IA, December 15, 1909)