Melvin Lee ChoateAge: 87 years1899–1986
- Name
- Melvin Lee Choate
- Given names
- Melvin Lee
- Surname
- Choate
 Birth | March 3, 1899 27 27 |
 Census | June 25, 1900 (Age 15 months) |
 Death of a mother | Susan Shemwell about 1901 (Age 21 months) |
| Census | April 16, 1910 (Age 11 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandmother | Nancy Adaline Meadows October 27, 1910 (Age 11 years) |
| Death of a paternal grandfather | Gideon “Gid” Choate May 17, 1911 (Age 12 years) |
 Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 16 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Mildred Elizabeth “Millie” Armstrong February 16, 1917 (Age 17 years) Cause: Heart Failure |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 17 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 18 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Death of a sister | Julia Ethel Choate April 11, 1922 (Age 23 years) |
| Birth of a son #1 | James Clayton Choate February 6, 1924 (Age 24 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 30 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
| Birth of a son #2 | Norman Lee Choate October 21, 1935 (Age 36 years) |
| Death of a son | Norman Lee Choate October 30, 1935 (Age 36 years) Cause: Congenital weakness |
| Death of a father | Robert Lysander Choate June 11, 1938 (Age 39 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 42 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 50 years)Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War |
| Death of a wife | Jennie A Skinner July 4, 1970 (Age 71 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 46 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
| Death of a sister | Anne Rosella “Annie” Choate December 6, 1981 (Age 82 years) |
 Death | May 19, 1986 (Age 87 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Futrell and Skinner Cemetery |
| Family with parents |
| father |
Robert Lysander Choate Birth: July 24, 1871 32 32 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States Death: June 11, 1938 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States |
| mother |
Susan Shemwell Birth: May 12, 1871 70 39 — Kentucky, United States Death: about 1901 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States |
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Marriage: January 4, 1894 — |
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2 months elder sister |
Julia Ethel Choate Birth: February 21, 1894 22 22 — Cadiz, Trigg, Kentucky, United States Death: April 11, 1922 — Christian, Kentucky, United States |
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3 years elder sister |
Anne Rosella “Annie” Choate Birth: November 1, 1896 25 25 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States Death: December 6, 1981 — Cadiz, Trigg, Kentucky, United States |
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2 years himself |
Melvin Lee Choate Birth: March 3, 1899 27 27 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States Death: May 19, 1986 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States |
| Family with Jennie A Skinner |
| himself |
Melvin Lee Choate Birth: March 3, 1899 27 27 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States Death: May 19, 1986 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States |
| wife |
Jennie A Skinner Birth: March 12, 1896 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States Death: July 4, 1970 — Cadiz, Trigg, Kentucky, United States |
| son |
James Clayton Choate Birth: February 6, 1924 24 27 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States Death: October 9, 2003 — Cambridge, Guernsey, Ohio, United States |
| son |
Private |
| daughter |
Private |
| son |
Norman Lee Choate Birth: October 21, 1935 36 39 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States Death: October 30, 1935 — Trigg, Kentucky, United States |
Melvin Lee Choate has 15 first cousins recorded
Father's family (0)
Mother's family (15)
Parents Josiah McKinney Carr “Dock” Stagner + Elizabeth Demarious “Bette” Shemwell
Parents … … + Elizabeth Demarious “Bette” Shemwell
Parents Joseph Mason Shemwell + Josephine “Josie” Gibbs
Parents Henry Isaac Shamwell + Rebecca Kennedy
Parents Henry Isaac Shamwell + Eliza Ann “Liza” Burkhart
Parents William Henry Harrison Simmons + Ann C Shemwell
| Census | 1900 United States - Census transcript - Robert Lee Choate - Household
Stewart, Tenn
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| Census | 1910 United States - Census transcript - Robert Lee Choate - Household
Trigg, Kentucky
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