James West born 1796 in South Carolina grew up in Tennessee and died in Itawamba or Pontotoc County, MS in 1862. This book is a compilation of chapters for James West born 1796, his son J. C. West born 1850, and his grandson James Marion West born 1885. This West family lived in Itawamba, Pontotoc, and Lafayette Counties, Mississippi for nearly 50 years. Y-DNA and autosomal DNA testing strongly suggests that James West born 1796 was the grandson of James West, who was born estimated 1727 and lived in Bladen, Duplin (later Sampson), and Robeson Counties, NC.