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Posted on: CHOAT Obituaries
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Surname: CHOAT, COOK, BIGGERSTAFF, BOWMAN, ARMSTRONG, EAKIN
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Mrs.M.E.Choat , one of Pawnee,Kansas counties earliest settlers,died at
her home on Toles Avenue. Mary Eliza Perry was born in Colchester ,Connecticut,on
February 26,1845.She became the wife of James Armstrong in 1866 and the
mother of three children before she came to Pawnee county in 1877.After
the death of Mr.Armstrong ,presumably by Indians,she married Mr.L.A.Choat
who had been in Pawnee county since 1871.By 1908 they owned five sections
of land when they moved to Larned,Kansas.Mrs.Belle Cook ,one of her daughters
,died and left four children.The three girls were taken into her home and
raised as her own.The grandson was reared in Broken Bow,Nebraska.These
three granddaughters,Mary Cook,Mrs.Helen Bowman and Mrs.Josephine Bowman,and
one grandson Chauncy Cook Biggerstaff and one son,J.C.Armstrong,of Burdett
and one daughter ,Mrs.Lida Eakin of Larned,survive her beside six other
grandchildren,seven greatgrandchildren and a host of friends who have loved
this pioneer citizen for many years. Her second husband L.A.Choat died
in 1909 and she lived in the big rambling house on Toles Avewith her youngest
grandaughter Mary Cook.Though in her later years ,considered one of the
wealthiest women of western Kansas,she always followed the habits of pioneer
days and lived without extravagence a simple and wholesome life.She has
been a conspicious success as a pioneer mother and business woman of this
county. clipping from Larned,Kansas newspaper 1930 submitted by her great
great granddaughter