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It is(as of 8:25 p.m. EST, March 30) working; it is slow; I only tried one
name; got the same misleading Ancestral File information that makes it look
like the second wife is the only wife BUT I did get 19 websites for possible
gg grandmother Permelia Williams; the site gets too busy, but retrying is like
getting a busy signal on AOL -- you usually get through within the next two or
three tries. Looks like it will be great and we don't have to sign up for our
alotted half hour at a busy FHC or library!
Janet Hunter
I am sure you'll enjoy this, although I am also sure my children would label
it "Ma's Disease". From the Horton List.
Janet Hunter
Subj: Grandma
Date: 99-03-19 01:26:23 EST
From: 4millers(a)sprintmail.com (Tom&Carol Miller)
Reply-to: 4millers(a)sprintmail.com
To: HORTON-L(a)rootsweb.com
GRANDMA'S DISEASE Author unknown courtesy Connie Washburn
There's been a change in Grandma, we've noticed her of late.
She always reading history or jotting down some date.
She's tracking back the family, we'll all have pedigrees.
Oh, Grandma's got a hobby - she's climbing the FAMILY TREE.
Poor Grandpa does the cooking, and now, or so he states,
That worst of all, he has to wash the cups and dinner plates.
Grandma can't be bothered, she busy as a bee,
Compiling genealogy for the FAMILY TREE.
She has no time to babysit, the curtains are a fright,
No buttons left on Grandpa's shirt, the flower bed's a sight.
She's given up her club work and the soaps on TV,
the only thing she does nowadays is climb the FAMILY TREE.
She goes down to the courthouse and studies ancient lore,
We know more about our forebears than we ever knew before.
The books are old and dusty, they make poor Grandma sneeze,
A minor irritation when you're climbing the FAMILY TREE.
The mail is all for Grandma, it comes from near and far,
Last week she got the proof she needs to join the D.A.R.
A monumental project all do agree,
All from climbing up the FAMILY TREE.
Now some folks came from Scotland, some from Galway Bay,
Some were French as pastry, some German all the way.
Some went West to stake there claims, some stayed there by the sea.
Grandma hopes to find them all, as she climbs the FAMILY TREE.
She wanders through the graveyard in search of date and name,
The rich, the poor, the in-between, all sleeping there the same.
She pauses now and then to rest, fanned by a gentle breeze,
That blows above the Fathers of all our FAMILY TREES.
There are pioneers and patriots, mixed in our kith and kin,
Who blazed the paths of wilderness and fought through thick and thin.
But none more staunch than Grandma, who eyes light up with glee,
Each time she finds a missing branch for the FAMILY TREE.
Their skills were wide and varied, from carpenter to cook,
And one, alas, the records show, was hopelessly a crook.
Blacksmith, weaver, farmer, judge - some tutored for a fee.
Once lost in time, now all recorded on the FAMILIY TREE.
To some it's just a hobby, to Grandma it's much more,
She learns the joys and heartaches of those that went before.
They loved, they lost, they laughed, they wept - and now, for you and
me,
They live again in spirit, around the FAMILY TREE.
At last she's nearly finished and we are each exposed,
Life will be the same again, this we all supposed.
Grandma will cook and sew, serve cookies with our tea.
We'll all be fat, just as before the wretched FAMILY TREE.
Sad to relate, the preacher called and visited for a spell.
We talked about the Gospel, and other things as well.
The heathen folk, the poor and then - twas fate, it had to be,
Somehow the conversation turned to Grandma and the FAMILY TREE.
He never knew his Grandpa, his mother's name was..... Clark?
He and Grandma talked and talked, outside it grew dark.
We'd hoped our fears were groundless, but just like some disease,
Grandma's become an addict - she's hooked on FAMILY TREES.
Our souls are filled with sorrow, our hearts sad with dismay.
Our ears could scarce believe the words we heard our Grandma say,
"It sure is a lucky thing that you have come to me,
I know exactly how it's done, I'll climb your FAMILY TREE.
Choate, Miss Anna L. to Hoover, Geo W. 18 Oct 1885
Choate, Miss Ida to Sims, W. A. 19 Sep 1894
Choats, Jennie to Roberts, W. A. 4 Nov 1894
Choate, Miss Eula to Sims, R. E. 17 May 1896
Choate, Jesse to Milam, Miss Maudie 4 Oct 1896
Choate, J. D. to Mathews, Miss Mattie 9 May 1900
Choate, Bertz to Harrell, Miss Mollie 13 Nov 1901
Choate, J. T. to Johnson, Miss Lola 15 Jun 1904
Choate, M. F. to Thomas, Miss Sallie 6 Feb 1905
Choate, Albert to Packwood, Miss Ludie 24 Sep 1905
Choate, Miss Minnie to Waters, G. M. 5 Jan 1908
Choat, Miss Myrtle to Gleason, Lee F. 6 Dec 1908
Choat, Mack to Kile, Miss Ethel 7 May 1910
Choat, Bertie to Braddock, Ollie (?) 1912
Choat, Berty to Craddock, Allie (?) 1912
Choat, Roy to Brightwell, Mary 1919
Choat, John to McEntire, Dorcas 1920
Choat, Miss Dibbon Vada to Hagar, C. A. 26 May 1923
Choate, Ethel to Pipps, George 1923
Choat, Velma to Green, O. L. 1924
Choate, Lola to Goodnough, Riley 1924
Choate, Gilbert to Troop, Minnie Lee 1924
Choate, Lurly to Shipp, Roy 1927
Choate, Bonnie to Stinson, Loflin 1927
Choate, Marion A. to Troop, Minnie Lee 1927
Choate, Nellie to Ashcraft, Ray 1928
Choate, Pearl to Patterson, Elzo 1930
Jack Green
Try once more with a correct address.
Jack
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Green <JLBGREEN(a)worldnet.att.net>
To: CHOATE <CHOATE-L-request@rootswe>
Date: Sunday, March 07, 1999 3:52 PM
Subject: Callahan Co., Tx marriages
>CHOATE, Tom to ENGLAND, Miss Ora 19 Apr 1909
>CHOATE, R. B. to THORNTON, Lawanda 30 May 1949
>CHOATE, Joie to HELLUMS, James Harold 6 Feb 1960
>
>Jack Green
>
I have a Louis Garrett Choate born about 1891 died July 4, 1964 in Franklin
county Ky. he married Nellie Rosson who is my great Aunt. I also have an old
tin picture of a woman and on the back is engraved "Miss Susan Choate" (looks
like Susan cannot be sure.) anyone interested in seeing this can write to me
at Cheeta829(a)aol.com
I also have a pic of Louis Choate, with 2 other men (unknown) holding a banner
that says "LAKE CHARLES" would love to have some help identifying these two
men. this pic can be viewed at the Franklin county website just click on PHOTO
PAGE or just write to me.
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ekyfrankl/franklin.htm
HAPPY HUNTING
-TARI WALKER
Richard Baxter Choate was my Great Grandfather on my mothers side. The family
lived and still live in Bunch Ok. Richard was married to a woman whose maiden
name was Lydia Humanstriker.Through my mothers storeies I know some of RBC.
Needless to say he was an aclimated man who was quite involved politically. In
Wilma Mankillers book "Mankiller" (pg. 171)she refers to the very subject
matter
Janmim refers to.
Megwetch, C. Biggs
(author unknown)
"I WANT"
1. I want ancestors with names like Rudimentary Montagnard or
Melchizenick von Steubenhoffmannschild or Spetznatz Giafortoni, not
William Brown or John Hunter or Mary Abbott.
2. I want ancestors who could read and write, had their children
baptized
in recognized houses of worship, went to school, purchased land, left
detailed wills (naming a huge extended family as legatees), had their
photographs taken once a year -- subsequently putting said pictures
in
elaborate isinglass frames annotated with calligraphic inscriptions,
and carved voluble and informative inscriptions in their headstones.
3. I want relatives who managed to bury their predecessors in
established,
still-extant (and indexed) cemeteries.
4. I want family members who wrote memoirs, who enlisted in the military
as officers and who served in strategically important (and well
documented) skirmishes.
5. I want relatives who served as councilmen, schoolteachers, county
clerks and town historians.
6. I want relatives who `religiously' wrote in the family Bible,
journaling
every little event and detailing the familial relationship of every
visitor.
7. In the case of immigrant progenitors, I want them to have arrived
only
in those years wherein passenger lists were indexed by National Arch-
ives, and I want them to have applied for citizenship, and to have
done
so only in those jurisdictions which have since established indices.
8. I want relatives who were patriotic and clubby, who joined every
patrimonial society they could find, who kept diaries, and listed all
their addresses, who had paintings made of their houses, and who
dated
every piece of paper they touched.
9. I want forebears who were wealthy enough to afford, and to keep for
generations, the tribal homestead, and who left all the
aforementioned
pictures and diaries and journals intact in the library.
10. But most of all, I want relatives I can FIND!!!