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1850
Name Age Sex Marital Birth Month
Cause County
Status Place
Died
Choat, Andrew 1/12 m Ark March
Unk.sudden Pope
1860
Spurlock, John M. 5/12 m Ark Aug
Worms Laurence
Spurlock, Samuel J. 20 m GA June
Cong. Chill Phillips
1870
Choat, Edward 75 m W Ark Oct
Dis of Kidney Washington
160
With 12 kids, I think I'd go down to the split rail myyself *grin*
P1TTYPAT(a)aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 6/25/99 8:19:40 PM Central Daylight Time,
> CHOATE-D-request(a)rootsweb.com writes:
>
> <<Needless to say the first order of business that day was to install a light
> in the outhouse.
> >>
> You mean they had electricity!?
> My granddad had a three-holer. One of the holes was shorter and smaller, for
> little, short folks. He had twelve children. He did not go to the outhouse
> tho. He went down to the barn-lot. He had a split rail across a corner of a
> split-rail fence.
I've temporarily run out of stories, unless I unearth something in the piles
I'm going through. *smile* I think it's about time for some others to
chime in too.
Marjorie - Isn't it odd how these people thought nothing of traveling for
months and months. And they'd make trips back and forth.
*laughing* One does give thanks for modern inventions. I'm so glad we've
got indoor plumbing. Thanks, Carol.
Carol Pierce wrote:
> I was really enjoying the family stories but haven't seen many lately.
>
In a message dated 6/25/99 8:19:40 PM Central Daylight Time,
CHOATE-D-request(a)rootsweb.com writes:
<<Needless to say the first order of business that day was to install a light
in the outhouse.
>>
You mean they had electricity!?
My granddad had a three-holer. One of the holes was shorter and smaller, for
little, short folks. He had twelve children. He did not go to the outhouse
tho. He went down to the barn-lot. He had a split rail across a corner of a
split-rail fence.
I had decided that we weren't having any more stories, and was ready to
write one when here came one about Dad and the snake! I guess my
sister's and my mind must run in the same direction.I seem to remember
that someone recently was descended from Abraham, son of Francis Choate
(grandson of John, the emigrant).Daniel descends from Abraham through,
Aaron and John.
Daniel was born in 1828, he grew up on a farm in Kennebec Co., Maine.
In Feb. 1849 he joined a party of gold seekers and on the 1st day of
March sailed from Boston for Chagres. They had an uneventful voyage and
reached the isthmus safely. The journey overland to Panama was attended
with the usual discomforts incident to the trip in those days. Here,
however, they were detained for a month, waiting for a vessel to take
them to San Francisco. Finally they embarked on the English brig "Two
Friends". The vessel was small and overcrowded, the winds light, and
they were 167 days on the journey. During this time the provisions and
water got very low and they were short on allowances for 100 days.
Seven months after they had left home they reached San Francisco.
During the next summer he was engaged with others in prospecting for
gold, but things were not up to expectation. In the spring of 1851,
Choate became engaged in the mercantile business in Opair, CA, where he
remained for 17 years until the mines were exhausted. He then returned
to San Francisco and opened a dry-goods store on Kearny Street. The
following year, he wanted a brief rest, and went to San Diago. He felt
the advantages here were great, and without returning to San Francisco,
he instructed his brother to sell out the business and join him in San
Diago. He began buying up property in this place with the objective of
accumulating the fortune that had failed in the mines. He laid out ten
different additions to the city and when the book ,"Choates in America"
was written in the late 1890's it said the value of his property had
increased over $300,000 in the past year. He was still very active in
real estate and civic affairs in San Diago as the book went to press.
I was really enjoying the family stories but haven't seen many lately.
My father, Harry Forrest Choate, was afraid of snakes. When I was young
our house did not have bath-
room facilities. Mother was always asking Dad to put a light in the
outhouse, but he never seemed to
get around to it.
One morning before the dawn's early light Dad made a trip down the path.
While he was sitting there he
felt something moving behind his back. We had cats who liked to follow us
out to the outhouse and jump
up to be petted while we were "taking care of business". Thinking it was a
cat's tail he grabbed it and
what did he have in his hand? A SNAKE1
Needless to say the first order of business that day was to install a light
in the outhouse.
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Husband James A. CHOATE
Died 1973 Place
Buried 1973 Place
Married 1941 Place Odessa,Ector County,Texas,U.S.A.
Wife Bertha Mozelle PHILLIPS
Born 16 JAN 1920 Place Rule,Haskell County,Texas,U.S.A.
Died 28 JAN 1988 Place Odessa,Ector
County,Texas,U.S.A.
Buried 1 FEB 1988 Place Odessa,Ector County,Texas,U.S.A.
Wife's Father Noah Oliver PHILLIPS
Wife's Mother Effie Mary MCCARTY
Children
1 .Noah Frances CHOATE
Born 19 APR 1943 Place ,Childress
County,Texas,U.S.A.
2. James Wayne CHOATE
Born 6 OCT 1945 Place Odessa,Ector
County,Texas,U.S.A.
3. Glenda Lou CHOATE
Born 13 JUL 1948 Place ,Hockley County,Texas,U.S.A.
4. Sarah Marie CHOATE
Born 24 AUG 1951 Place ,Hockley
County,Texas,U.S.A.
Spouse Jimmy Ray "Jim" SHAKESPEARE
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Husband
Robert RENEAU
Wife
Lorene CHOATE
Wife's Father Rufus CHOATE
Wife's Mother Hettie MURPHY
Children
1. Jean RENEAU
2. Robert RENEAU
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Husband
Randel THOMAS
Born 1914
Husband's Father Albert B. THOMAS
Husband's Mother Ada WELLS
Wife Loveta CHOATE
Children
1. Jerry THOMAS
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Wife Snow CHOATE
Wife's Father Rufus CHOATE
Wife's Mother Hettie MURPHY
Children
1. Douglas HIGGINBOTHAM
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Husband Shadrick Porter GARRETT
Born ABT 1883 Place
Died ABT 1965 Place
Buried ABT 1965 Place
Married ABT 1907 Place
Husband's Father Shadrick H. "Shade" GARRETT
Husband's Mother Sarah Jane HANCOCK
Wife Ada C. CHOATE
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Husband Loyal WARD
Wife Ann E. CHOATE
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Husband Loyal WARD
Wife Ann S. CHOATE
Married 1829 Place Auburn,Cayuga,New York
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Husband Clarence CHOATE
Wife Scenda SMITH
Wife's Father John Booher SMITH
Wife's Mother Samantha BOOHER
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Husband Clayton CHOATE
Husband's Father Rufus CHOATE
Husband's Mother Hettie MURPHY
Wife Marie GRIFFITH
Children
1. Joyce CHOATE
2. Evelyn CHOATE
3. Philip CHOATE
4. Wayne CHOATE
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Husband Raymond CHOATE
Husband's Father Rufus CHOATE
Husband's Mother Hettie MURPHY
Wife Gladys SMITH
Children
1. David CHOATE
2. Daniel CHOATE
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Husband
Rufus CHOATE
Born 1889 Place
Husband's Father John CHOATE
Husband's Mother Fatina WELLS
Wife Hettie MURPHY
Wife's Father Clayton MURPHY
Children
1. Raymond CHOATE
Spouse Gladys SMITH
2. Clayton CHOATE
Spouse Marie GRIFFITH
3. Lorene CHOATE
Spouse Robert RENEAU
4. Snow CHOATE
Spouse Maurice HIGGINBOTHAM
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Husband
John CHOATE
Born Place Tennessee
Wife Fatina WELLS
Wife's Father Anderson WELLS
Wife's Mother Lydia STORY
Children
1. Caleb CHOATE
Born Place
Spouse Lea NORROD
2. Isaac CHOATE
Born Place
Spouse Myrtle WILLIAMS
3. Silas CHOATE
4. Lois CHOATE
Spouse J.C. REEVES
5.Lydia CHOATE
6 Anna CHOATE
Spouse Amos CRABTREE
7. Rufus CHOATE
Born 1889 Place
Spouse Hettie MURPHY
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I have a very yellowed clipping from an unidentified newspaper (I
suspect the Dallas paper) dated Friday, Oct 28, 1966.
The lady - Pearl Choate Birch was 59 at the time, and was "free on
$5,000 bond on the kidnaping charge and a charge of keeping her husband,
Otis Birch, away from his relatives."
It also seems that this lady at one time served a prison term for murder
("...sentenced in 1947 to 22 years in prison for the murder ooof a Texas
carpenter in a dispute over the quality of some of his work.")
There is a description of the lady - "A six-foot 205 pound nurse..."
I found some notes that Irene Choate Williams sent my aunts about the
family of Ned Dean Choate (Son of James Edward Choate and Piety Emaline
Dean Choate of Iuka, Mississippi).
If anyone is interested, e-mail me and I'll copy it for you. This is
NOT my branch. Oh, this information is 30 yrs old.
**laughing* That's great. Thanks
Carol Pierce wrote:
> My dad, Forrest Choate, born in 1898, grew up on an Iowa farm. He had ten
> siblings and shared a bed with his brother, Fred. There was no central
> heating nor electricity in their farmhouse, and the upstairs
> bedrooms were very cold in the winter.
>
> Fred would stay downstairs close to the stove until he thought Dad was
> asleep and had the bed warmed up.
> He had a habit of creeping up the stairs and then making a flying leap into
> the bed, usually landing on Dad.
>
> One day Grandma moved the bed to the other side of the room but Fred didn't
> know this. Dad told about how he stayed awake anticipating what would
> happen when Fred came to bed. He soon heard the stairs
> creak and could hardly keep from laughing. Fred took his usual flying leap
> in the dark only to find himself
> in a heap on the floor gasping for air. I think that was the last time he
> jumped on Dad when he got in bed.
My dad, Forrest Choate, born in 1898, grew up on an Iowa farm. He had ten
siblings and shared a bed with his brother, Fred. There was no central
heating nor electricity in their farmhouse, and the upstairs
bedrooms were very cold in the winter.
Fred would stay downstairs close to the stove until he thought Dad was
asleep and had the bed warmed up.
He had a habit of creeping up the stairs and then making a flying leap into
the bed, usually landing on Dad.
One day Grandma moved the bed to the other side of the room but Fred didn't
know this. Dad told about how he stayed awake anticipating what would
happen when Fred came to bed. He soon heard the stairs
creak and could hardly keep from laughing. Fred took his usual flying leap
in the dark only to find himself
in a heap on the floor gasping for air. I think that was the last time he
jumped on Dad when he got in bed.
I have run into many brick walls doing my research but this one has been a
mountain. Any help or information that you might have on Nellie Delihah
Choate b. 8/1856 MO? d. 1921 buried in Liberty Polk Cemetery, Iron County, MO
next to her husband Smiley Alfonso Orr married 1878. Any information would be
appreciated like...parents, siblings,....anything at all!!!!(keeping my
fingers crossed) Thanks Deb
Hi everyone, my name is Courtney Biggs. I am the son of Evelyn Lucille Choate
(Biggs) who is the daughter of Robert McKennon Choate from Bunch Oklahoma.
Robert and his brother Elmer were the sons of Richard Baxter and Lydia Choate
(Humanstriker). Richard was the son of Sanders Choate who in turn was the son
of one Silas Choate who "came out West with the old settlers in 1829, then
returned to the Eastern Cherokee Nation. He came back and settled near
Greenwood Junction. He lived there until his death, sometime before the Civil
War." The preceding is an excerpt from the book "The History of Adair
County." I have one other source of Choate History specifically, but what I
am really interested in is if anyone knows anything about Richards wife Lydia
Choate (Humanstriker). My mother spoke glowingly of her when we were
children, and so many years later now my mother has Alzheimers and cant speak
to that subject matter like she used to. Shes at a point now in her illness
where she is reliving some of her challenges as a young, beautiful indian
woman living in Bunch and going of to college. My mother is 77 years old now.
Anyway all her brothers are gone now but one who still lives in Fort Smith
Ar. which is where I am from. When I read your stories about the Choate sense
of humor I am whisked back to a wonderful place in time atime of BIG husky
hugs and hearty laughter.
Megwetch Courtney Biggs
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