BORN: 1848
BORN IN: Michigan
DIED: 1/21/1914
AGED: 65
CAUSE OF DEATH: Gunshot wound of leg--self inflicted
DEATH LOCATION: Redwood City
MEMBER OF: REDMEN
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BURIED NEARBY IN PLOT Redmen:
- Allain, Mary
- Allain, Toussaint
- Almen, August Conrad
- Almen, George
- DeBenedetti, Joseph B
- Demartini, Frank
- Feldhusen, Bernhardt
- Hansen, Soren
- Hanson, A H
- Hanson, Catherine M
- Hanson, Peter Marcus
- Mills, Allen
- Mullen, E
- Page, Clark Allen
- Plate, Andrew
- Reed, Ygnacia S
- Townsend, Anslem P
- Westran, Axle William
- Wolters, Anna C
- Wolters, Eggbert E
- Worth, V M
CURRENT EVENTS:- 1849 California Gold Rush
- 1850 California became the 31st State
- 1860 The Pony Express
- 1861 Abraham Lincoln elected President
- 1861 American Civil War
- 1865 Abraham Lincoln assassinated
- 1866 Ku Klux Klan
- 1869 National Woman Suffrage Assoc.
- 1871 The Great Chicago Fire
- 1876 Telephones (Alexander Graham Bell)
- 1876 Baseball's National League
- 1877 Phonograph (Thomas Edison)
- 1879 Light Bulb (Thomas Edison)
- 1901 Teddy Roosevelt elected President
- 1903 First powered flight (Wright Brothers)
- 1906 The San Francisco Earthquake
- 1912 The Titanic sank
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OBITUARY ---------------GEORGE WEST
Redwood City Democrat
January 22, 1914
It was a severe shock to the many friends of George West yesterday when they learned that he was dead with a gunshot wound self inflicted and supposedly with suicidal intent. For several days West had been despondent and at different times had declared his purpose of killing himself, but his friends attcmpted to cheer him up and dissuade him from this course apparently succeeding.
Late Tuesday night he left his home and went to his office in the building on Washington Street, where he maintained a store room and rented rooms. Shots were heard at different times through the night by roomers in the building but no attention was paid to them. At 8 o’clock yesterday morning, Frank Austin, one of the tenants, asked some friends to assist him in investigating the matter and following a trail of blood, they found the dead body of West fully dressed on a bed in one of the rooms, with a revolver still grasped in his hand. The bloody trail led from the office where the shooting took place to a room in the third story of the building and indicated that after West had shot himself, he had walked up two flights of stairs to the bed and lay himself down to die The sheriff and deputy coroner were summoned and the body was taken to the morgue, where upon examination, the bullet wound was found in the left thigh, severing the main artery and causing death from loss of blood.
Redman’s Plot
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