As genealogists, we’re always lucky when we find the family historians who came before us. My mom’s first cousin Dub West and his wife Christine were able to collect some West and Hester family photos. Unfortunately, many of those photos were unlabeled and nobody living knew who they were.
That’s where we come in!
Can you identify anybody in these old photos?
These are likely members of the West and Hester family who lived in the Free Home/Lathemtown/Ball Ground, Cherokee County, Georgia area. The identified people are the children and in-laws of Lightner Leander (LL) West and Josephine McDaniel West. They are as old as potentially the 1860s to as recent as the 1940s. Many of the family dispersed to Atlanta in the 1920s, so that might explain what looks like some city pictures. These photos may also belong to collateral families who married into to the Wests and Hesters.
(Psst! I recognized some of these folks from other photos, so indicated that where possible.)
Thanks for any help!
Unidentified West & Hester Photos
Note that these were given to me as 3×5 copies of originals. The originals were all shapes and sizes.
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Picture #32 The older girl is Gehenna Lumus Barnes the younger girl is Sarah West Perkins my mother I have a copy of the picture
Thank you so much, David! I’m glad you chimed in! I wonder where Papa got all these pictures? I’m guessing maybe from his mama, Emma Hester West after his dad died.