City: Lafayette
WEST, Perry Bunyan, traveling salesman; born Walnut Shade, Tenn., Dec. 22, 1872; Scotch-Irish descent; son of Jessee and Sarah F. (Huddleston) WEST; father’s occupation farmer; trustee and clerk and master of Chancery Court, Macon county; educated at Lafayette, Tenn., and Peabody College, Nashville, Tenn.; in early life taught in the public schools of the state of Tenn.; entered the mercantile business in 1902; later went on the road as traveling salesman for a wholesale grocery house; married Sallie ROARK, May 23, 1894; member Masons, Knights of Pythias’ Sisters; Democrat; member of Missionary Baptist church.
