Dr. R. M. West

Dr. R. M. West - As this obituary fills a complete column in the newspaper, it is only abstracted here. One of the most beloved citizens of Clarendon passed away yesterday afternoon at 3:10 o'clock. During all of this year Dr. Robert M. West had been in failing health. His surviving children were - Dr. J. M. West and Mrs. Henry P. Hopkins. Services were conducted at the Methodist Church at 2 o'clock this afternoon by Rev. B. E. Anrobus of the Baptist Church and Rev. F. M. Looney of the Methodist Church. Services at the grave were by Cache Lodge No. 235, F. & A. M. Dr. West was born in Henderson Co., Tenn., July 6, 1832, the youngest of seven sons and five daughters born to Easton and Mary E. (Simmons) West. He graduated in 1860 from the Medical Dept. of the University at Louisville, Ky., having begun his practice in Tenn. in 1858. He served in Co. H., Tenth Tenn. Cavalry but after seven months was made assistant surgeon of the Fifteenth Tenn. Regiment during the Civil War. He resumed his practice in Tenn. after the war, but in 1871 came to Clarendon, Ark. where he has since practiced his profession. He was married first in 1860 to Mary F. Conner who died in 1872, having borne two children, both now deceased. He was married in 1874 to Miss Celena Wahl, by whom he had two children, Nora C. and Julius M. Two children, Mrs. Henry F. Hopkins of Argenta, and Dr. Julius M. West of Clarendon, and Miss Nora West, his adopted daughter, survive the deceased.