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Rosetta Lela Choate

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Rosetta Lela Choate

Birth
Arkansas, USA
Death
unknown
Burial
Sayre, Beckham County, Oklahoma, USA
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Note: The claim of death and burial in the Old Doxey Cemetery is highly questionable or the year of death is over more than 7 years off. In 1886 white settlement was not allowed until 1892 6 years after the claimed death and neither Doxey or Sayre existed until after 1892 (Doxey 1894 & Sayre 1901). Beckham County would not exist until Nov 1907 and even Roger Mills County did not exist until 1892. There is an index record of a Doxey Burial for a Lela Choate but with no dates. It is assumed the death date of 1886 must be wrong thus the death date of 1886 was removed. One might guess 1896 is the correct death date but could be just as wrong.

Lela's fathers land patent in December 1895 would imply he was in the 1892 land run and this would be the earliest Lela could have come to Oklahoma. His land claim was about 1 mile south of where Doxey once existed in Roger Mills County until Nov 1907 when the area became part of Beckham County.

Rosetta "Zetti" Choate
Born: abt 1866 in Arkansas
Died: abt 1886 Beckham or Roger Mills County, Oklahoma (not possible - see above note)
Father: Frances Marion Choate
Mother: unknown at this time
Picture is from: Alene (Schiller) Malloy
Zetti was a school teacher in a dugout and died at the age of 20 years old.

The name we first had for Zetti was Lela. So I don't know if her name was Rosetta "Zetti" Lela Choate or how the information was changed to Lela through out the years. The name Rosetta "Zetti" came from Alene (Schiller) Malloy and Sonia (Schiller) Jansen. Their grandmother Georgia (Choate) Schiller was a half sister to Zetti



"This is an endangered cemetery "
Note: The claim of death and burial in the Old Doxey Cemetery is highly questionable or the year of death is over more than 7 years off. In 1886 white settlement was not allowed until 1892 6 years after the claimed death and neither Doxey or Sayre existed until after 1892 (Doxey 1894 & Sayre 1901). Beckham County would not exist until Nov 1907 and even Roger Mills County did not exist until 1892. There is an index record of a Doxey Burial for a Lela Choate but with no dates. It is assumed the death date of 1886 must be wrong thus the death date of 1886 was removed. One might guess 1896 is the correct death date but could be just as wrong.

Lela's fathers land patent in December 1895 would imply he was in the 1892 land run and this would be the earliest Lela could have come to Oklahoma. His land claim was about 1 mile south of where Doxey once existed in Roger Mills County until Nov 1907 when the area became part of Beckham County.

Rosetta "Zetti" Choate
Born: abt 1866 in Arkansas
Died: abt 1886 Beckham or Roger Mills County, Oklahoma (not possible - see above note)
Father: Frances Marion Choate
Mother: unknown at this time
Picture is from: Alene (Schiller) Malloy
Zetti was a school teacher in a dugout and died at the age of 20 years old.

The name we first had for Zetti was Lela. So I don't know if her name was Rosetta "Zetti" Lela Choate or how the information was changed to Lela through out the years. The name Rosetta "Zetti" came from Alene (Schiller) Malloy and Sonia (Schiller) Jansen. Their grandmother Georgia (Choate) Schiller was a half sister to Zetti



"This is an endangered cemetery "

Gravesite Details

Unmarked grave - Old Doxey is a colloquial term used for the Doxey Cemetery that came into use only after the cemetery was abandoned and was never its official name. The cemetery is NE of Sayre not in Sayre.

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