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 Considerable confusion about his date of birth.  The 1900 census shows
 Oct 1817, and both parents born in PA!
 Alvira C.1845, Homer C.1847, Albert C. 1849, Ernest C.1856, Hubert C.1858

 the following entry in the 1880 census for Orwell, NY
 suggests these are relatives:

 1880 census images Orwell, Oswego Co., NY page 9

 West      Albert E           31                  Farmer
           Frances E          29   wife           Keeping House
           Alice S            8    daughter
 West      Charles E          41                  Farmer
           Frances            37   wife           Keeping House
           William W          16   son
 West      David D            60                  Farmer
           Adah               57   wife           Keeping House
           Hubert J           22   son            Farm Laborer
 West      Ernest D           24                  Farm Laborer
           Nettie             19   wife           Keeping House

 from other (IGI?) data we have Albert E., son of David (D or G).
 plus our Charles E and family are there with them.
 Homer is listed as Homer J. in the 1880 census.

 Notes from Orwell Historian:
 Alvera A. b. 7 May 1844, Orwell, d. 1914
   m. Mar 1864/65 Jerome Greenfield
   children: Ephrian B., Edward, Eaton H., Ernest, Edgar A.
 Homer M. b. 14 Apr 1847, Orwell, d. 1913 Evergreen
   m. 13 Jan 1869, Ann Hilton
   children: Ella, Annie Belle, Myron
 Albert E. b. 7 May 1848, Orwell, d. 1919 Evergreen
   m. Frances Butts, children: Ella, H. J.
 David Ernest, b. 11 Jul 1855, Orwell, 1916
   m. Nettie Barnes (or Wheeler)
 Hubert J. b. 7 Mar 1858, Orwell, d. 25 Jul 1921
   m. Ana S. Hutt, 27 Sep 1883

 In his early youth, he came to the town of Orwell and engaged in
 farming.  He settled 4 miles east of Orwell near Stillwater.  Some of
 the land he purchased from Hiram Eddy, the rest he got from the
 Pierrepont estate in 1844.  All his children were born in Orwell in
 house he built.

 As soon as David's sons were old enough, he bought them each a drum
 and taught them to drum with either his brother Ira of Sandy Creek
 or Isaac Spink of Williamstown playing the fife.   They Became known
 as the West Corps B.  They furnished music for political rallies, pole
 raisings, and Sunday school picnics.

 All of David and Ada's children settled in Orwell except David Ernest,
 who operated a grocery store in Ricard, NY and Sandy Creek.