A thoughtful findagrave member was kind enough to write to me about Fannie West Pogue, and her belief that Fannie was not a daughter of the Mayor of Indianapolis, Henry Franklin West, and his second wife. Thank you for writing. So for those of you who also question this relationship, rest assured that ample proof still exists, all of which has been submitted to the Mayflower Society (Ohio & Mass). Yes, Jane Augusta Smith, daughter of Lester Smith & Electa McKee [of Plymouth, Mass before Dayton, lastly Troy OH], married the future mayor on 14 May 1844, Montgomery Co, OH, as his second wife, but she tragically died in burning bedclothes in a fire at their home, while carrying for their sick baby, only four years later in 1848; in 1902, the sole probate judge and clerk, Benjamin F. McCann's sworn affidavit cites to this second marriage being recorded in Vol. B, No.2, pg.12 (Fannie herself submitted this in proof back in 1902 and the Mayflowers admirably preserved it!). When Fannie (their sick baby whom Jane saved) did her own 1902 Mayflower application (General Society #2010), she herself named her father, as did her daughter Elizabeth Pogue Todd in her Mayflower application (GS #2367)-both of record for abt 110 yrs! In 2011, I reproved each side of each generation for several of my beloved family members to join via this same lineage from Richard Warren, passenger,so arduously compiled proof has been tracked down and archived- please contact them to inexpensively buy copies of any public papers & join the Mayflower Soc. if you also have this lineage, i.e. tracing down through findagrave 21390679, Frederick West (1767/1813) > Henry Franklin West, Sr., the Indy. Mayor.& important, ground breaking common school (public school) reformer, etc. My notes show many ties to the extended family: they mention Fannie living with her brother, Henry Franklin West Jr, (indexed on ancestry, 1870 FCOH, as Henry J. West,Cinti., Hamilton Co., Oh; Roll: M593_1207; P. 7B; Image: 19; FHL#552706) before her 1871 marriage, and I think he was her guardian at some point... In the 1860 census, Fannie was living with Electa McKee Smith's family (Troy OH) and Fannie separately joined (1860) the First Presbyterian Church, Troy as did Lester Smith earlier. She encouraged Bessie Mitchell West of Detroit MI (GS #2123), and Eleanor West Langdon (GS #2109) on the Mayflower memberships given that Fannie's member number preceded them. She was honored as a founding member (and generous financial patron) of Henry Franklin West Jr's presby. church, Avondale. Finding Fannie named under grandchildren, as Mrs. Samuel Pogue of Avondale, Hamilton Co., OH, in Electa's original 1889 probate papers (kinship) up in Troy,Miami County, Ohio was one of my favorite finds! Microfilm of Indianapolis Presby. church papers (even after a man at one Indy church oddly denied repeatedly their existence...) were also critical, preserved in a college's Presbyterian library in southern Indiana (Hanover College Archives, Agnes Brown Duggan Lib., Hanover,IN) and also in Allen Co. Pub Lib.(ACPL), Ft. Wayne,IN massive book collection. As H.F. West, Sr. was the publisher of The Miamian Newspaper, Dayton, OH, the 1844 wedding announcement was another blessing discovered at the public library, downtown Dayton (funding to digitize the sole surviving original hard copy (abt ?one full year of newsprint)- is needed please!) Fannie was an amazing woman in her own right as well...