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Note for: Aaron Crockett Choate, 15 SEP 1829 - 5 DEC 1911 Index

Occupation:
     Date:   BET 1873 AND 1876
     Place:   Sheriff, Newton Co., Missouri

Burial:
     Date:   1911
     Place:   IOOF Cemetery, Newton Co., Missouri

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Note for: Thomas Jefferson Choate, 27 FEB 1831 - 29 JUL 1896 Index

Burial:
     Date:   1896
     Place:   Lawrence Co., Tennessee

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Note for: Sarah F. Choate, ABT 1840 - Index

Alias: /Sallie/

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Note for: Richard K. Barefoot, ABT 1826 - 23 MAY 1860 Index

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[natalie_choal.FTW]

I question whether or not this is the child of Dillon Barefoot.

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Note for: Jasper M. Barefoot, ABT 1829 - 31 AUG 1890 Index

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[natalie_choal.FTW]

I question whether or not this is a child of Dillon Barefoot.

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Note for: Nancy Ann Spurlock, 5 APR 1843 - 15 SEP 1898 Index

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Epitaph: "Weep not for me my children, Dear I am not dead but sleeping hear (sic), I was not ours but Christ, Alone He loved me best, And took me home"

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Note for: John Dillon Choate, 10 MAY 1837 - 22 JAN 1900 Index

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Epitaph: "Gone but not forgotten"
"Choats"
A Masonic symbol at the top of the stone.

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Note for: James Trimble, ABT 1854 - Index

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From Barbara Rivas As told by Annie Pearl Barefoot Daugherty Aug. 20, 1950:
"Jim Trimble killed a man down in Bee County, Texas. Old Uncle Monroe Choate lived there. (He had come down there from Arkansas. All those Choates had come there from Tennessee to Arkansas, and then on to Southern Texas.) They were wealthy cattlemen then. His son, Bing Choate, drove cattle to Dodge City, Kansas and was shot and killed the next morning after he sold them. Somebody shot him for his money. They got behind a goods box on the sidewalk and waited till he passed and shot him in the back. Old man Grant Vinson was up there when it happened. He told Pa that Bing Choate had the best bunch of cattle that he ever saw in his life. Bing Choate is buried right there in Boot Hill.

"Jim Trimble ran away up to Bell County. He was in jail and they were going to hang him. He broke out of jail some way and he got to Aunt Polly Choate, his grandma. His mother was a Choate. Aunt Polly was a Choate. (Or friends let him out. We don't know that part.) He got into some trouble down there in Bee County and he came off up to Erath County to some of those Choates. And he was always a looking for his brother-in-law, Dave Pinson, he was going to kill him if he found him. His wife was named Signa Pinson and she was Jim Trimble's sister. He never found that man. He got in trouble and killed an officer. While he was on the scout and looking for his brother-in-law. His brother-in-law had killed Jim Trimble's father and Jim had wanted to kill him since he was a little boy. Old Monroe Choate had goven him a gun and said, 'If you ever see him stick this right in his ear and don't let him know you are there and pull the trigger.' He was dressed like a Mexican with black pants and a red sash around his waist and spurs and boots and looked odd and foreign to those people there. They got to making inquiry because he was lying around at Aunt Polly's and not doing anything and they found that there was a man wanted for some kind of trouble down at Bee County and the sheriff took a notion that he would go and arrest this man. Anyhow, he went and he deputized some man to help him, just a neighbor, you know a sheriff can do that, and they went to old Aunt Polly Choate's house and Jim said that he took his belt and pistol off and had hung them on the side of the bed and was sitting on the side of the bed eating pecans and the officer walked in and pulled his gun on Jim and fired it and said 'Consider yourself under arrest', and he had fired before he ended his sentence. He was afraid of Jim. Jim got his pistol and killed the officer. He went out the door and the deputized man was there with his gun and Jim shot him in the forehead as he passed him. He said, 'I saw the hair curl into the bullet as I shot him.' The neighbors found him right away and they were all mad and put him in jail. They tied him and laid him down in the store and they spit ambeer (that's chewing tobacco) on him until he didn't know the color of his coat. They spit on him all evening long. Then they put him in jail. I don't know how he got out. I don't know how he got ahold of Pa (Pa was John Wiley Barefoot, grandson of Nancy Choate) and Aunt Polly and got them together. Some of those Choates probably got her down at Grandpa's. (Grandpa was John Tipton Barefoot, son of Nancy Choate). Pa drove a wagon and team and they put a feather bed in the back and Jim lay undeer it. Pa said he was on of the finest looking young men he ever saw in his life. Pa said he had a full red mustache. Aunt Polly sat beside Pa and knit socks all along the way and Pa drove the wagon and at night Jim would get out and walk to exercise. They got to Monroe Choate's and Jim said, 'I came to see what I had better do.' and Monroe said, 'If you stand trial they'll hang you, so you'd better get away.' He got away to Old Mexico and never has been heard of any more. His mother took a cancer in her breast and she had an operation and died from it. Pa was always afraid to have a cancer operated on after that."

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Note for: Eliza Choate, 21 AUG 1815 - 3 JUL 1854 Index

Burial:
     Date:   1854
     Place:   Hurst Cemetary, Fleming County, Kentucky

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Note for: Julia Ann Choate, 27 JUN 1817 - 1 FEB 1857 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Housewife

Burial:
     Place:   Granny Thomas C., Lewis County, Kentucky

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Note for: Abner Choate, ABT 1825 - Index

Occupation:
Place: farmer

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Note for: Caspar Helms Seever, 30 JUN 1813 - Index

Occupation:
     Place:   farmer

Burial:
     Place:   Hurst Cemetary, Fleming County, Kentucky