Charles Pinckney West,II. was the son of Charles Pinckney and Madeline Pettit West. He spent his childhood in Cuthbert, Georgia the son of a prosperous and prominent man. He attended Independent Academy for his early schooling and entered the University of Georgia to study law in 1860. A year and a half later the college closed and he and all the students at the college enlisted in the Confederate Army on April 25th, 1862, Co. B. 4th regiment. In 1866 he married Clarissa Ann White of Fort Gaines, Georgia. In 1870 Charles was involved in an incident in which a man was killed. Consequently, he moved with his family to Pontatoe County, Mississippi where he began a farming venture financed by his father. Charles sold their land there on December 13, 1878 and moved to Union Springs, Alabama and engaged in the business of raising cotton. His wife Clarissa died on April 1st. 1884. Charles Pinckney West never married again and he raised their six sons alone - Charles; Robert; Thomas; John; James; and Clarence. It was stock in the Southwestern Railroad that enabled four of the sons Charles, John and Clarence to earn pharmacy degrees from Vanderbilt University and James to earn a medical degree from Vanderbilt. Their grandfather Charles Pinckney West, Sr.had sold the land for the railroad as it came through Georgia and for the land and the Negro labor that put in the tracks he received stock in the Southwestern Railroad Company. This stock he left to his grandsons in his will of 1887. Charles Pinckney West, Jr.died alone of a heart attack in a rural cabin a few miles from Union Springs when he was seventy-nine years old.
Charles Pinckney West,II. was the son of Charles Pinckney and Madeline Pettit West. He spent his childhood in Cuthbert, Georgia the son of a prosperous and prominent man. He attended Independent Academy for his early schooling and entered the University of Georgia to study law in 1860. A year and a half later the college closed and he and all the students at the college enlisted in the Confederate Army on April 25th, 1862, Co. B. 4th regiment. In 1866 he married Clarissa Ann White of Fort Gaines, Georgia. In 1870 Charles was involved in an incident in which a man was killed. Consequently, he moved with his family to Pontatoe County, Mississippi where he began a farming venture financed by his father. Charles sold their land there on December 13, 1878 and moved to Union Springs, Alabama and engaged in the business of raising cotton. His wife Clarissa died on April 1st. 1884. Charles Pinckney West never married again and he raised their six sons alone - Charles; Robert; Thomas; John; James; and Clarence. It was stock in the Southwestern Railroad that enabled four of the sons Charles, John and Clarence to earn pharmacy degrees from Vanderbilt University and James to earn a medical degree from Vanderbilt. Their grandfather Charles Pinckney West, Sr.had sold the land for the railroad as it came through Georgia and for the land and the Negro labor that put in the tracks he received stock in the Southwestern Railroad Company. This stock he left to his grandsons in his will of 1887. Charles Pinckney West, Jr.died alone of a heart attack in a rural cabin a few miles from Union Springs when he was seventy-nine years old.
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