West-Vanhook Family Papers

The West-Vanhook family farm (Garrard County, Kentucky) was bought by F.A. Vanhook and his wife Nancy in 1884. They moved there, from Science Hill in Pulaski County, Kentucky. The death of the current farm owner delayed the official property transfer until 1890. By this time F.A. Vanhook had already passed away. Henry West of Pulaski County, Kentucky married F.A. Vanhook’s daughter, Sarah in 1867. His son William W. (better known as W.W. West) was the first West to move to the farm, being sent to help his grandmother Nancy manage the farm in about 1895. Two years after W.W. West moved to the farm he met his wife-to-be, Patience Amanda Rebecca Arimenta Kelly (better known as Minnie). Minnie’s son’s Logan and Floyd attended Berea College, but did not graduate. Beulah was the only child of W.W. and Minnie still living at the time of this writing. She is retired from a teaching career at Paint Lick. Beulah, along with Floyd’s sons Bill and Henry, are the current owners of the farm. Recently Bill and Henry decided to split up the land which made Bill the owner of the original farm that had been acquired by F.A. Vanhook.