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- 1860 Census - Karnes TX - J M 1822 TN, Eliz 1820 TN, Jno H 1822 TX, Eliz 1849 TX, Danean 1851 TX, Wm 1853, Jefferson 1855 TX, and Bingham 1857
1850 Census - Leon, Leon Co TX - James M. Choat 1823 TN, Elizabeth 1821 TN, John H 1848 TX, and Elizabeth 1850 TX Note: Hosea Robeauls 23 M LA living with them
ICW Newsletter #2 -- "Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade" by Joseph G. McCoy, 1874 Pg. 17 A picture portrait of J. M. Choate plus text --"But perhaps no more appropriate personal sketch of a genuine Texas ranchman could be presented than that of J.M. CHOATE, a Tennesseean by birth, but a Texan of twenty eight years residence, is perhaps as true a specimen, both in appearance and manner of life, of the patriarchial ranchman and drover combined as could be presented. His broad, high forehead, open frank countenance, full grown, untrimmed and unshaven beard, mark him as a genuine fronteirsman, one accustomed to untold privations and hardships; yet one to whom no phase of frontier life has either terror or trials that he would fear to face or shrink from enduring. He is a close observer of transpiring events. an unerring reader of human countenances and character. A man whose sincere aim is to do right with his fellow man. one who suffers in heart when the people of his state are outraged or are made to endure unjust impositions. Although upon the shady side of life yet he is well perserved; hale and robust and as fond of fun and jollity. a good joke or a laughable story. as are those many years his juniors.
Such are briefly the characteristics of J.M. CHOATE, of Helena. Texas, who has spent the entire time that he has lived in Texas upon a farm and stock ranch. Since the war he has devoted his time and energies to the live stock business. He was a drover of '66. and one of those who wended their way into Iowa with their herds. but he did not admire northern driving. regarding it as too precarious-- too uncertain, not to say dangerous to life and limb. So in '67 and '68 he turned his herds toward New Orleans; but the following year a better report of the prospect north reached him and hither he has annually driven from one to eight thousand head of cattle, and generally sold them upon the prairie in preference to shipping. There he feels at
home and knows just what he is doing.
Mr. CHOATE owns a ranch of about fifteen hundred acres upon which, and adjoining outlying Government lands. he keeps about three thousand cattle and five hundred horses. To his live stock interest he looks for his money and when he can sell at home for satisfactory prices prefers to do so, but when the home buyer fails to come he does not hesitate to outfit one or more herds and drive them on his own account."
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1822 - 1899 (77 years)
