CHOATE, Mrs. Ellen, Beeville Bee, Friday, 18 Dec 1903:

Mrs. Ellen CHOATE died at the residence of her son, Mr. J. T. BORROUM, in this 
city Wednesday night after a brief illness. The deceased was an old resident of 
this section having moved here before the civil war from Mississippi with her first 
husband, Judge Borroum who died some years later. Her last husband was Mr. 
Monroe Choate, a prominent stockman and well-known resident of Karnes County 
who died several years ago. Four sons and a daughter by her first marriage and 
two sons by her second marriage survive her. The eldest, Benjamin Borroum is 
resident of the Panhandle section of the state. James H. Peterson and Jessie T. 
residents of this county, the daughter living in Memphis Tenn. The younger children, 
Messrs. Henry and Charles Choate are residents of Karnes County. Mrs. Choate's 
remains were interred in Goliad today where her first husband is buried.


Friday, 25 Dec 1903
In the account given of the death of Mrs. Ellen CHOATE last week a few errors appeared. 
Her first husband, Judge J. B. BORROUM„ father of the Messrs. Borroum well-known 
residents of this section, died in New Orleans of yellow fever while on a visit in that city, 
in 1867; Peterson Borroum is the eldest of the sons, not Benjamin who lives at Del Rio 
and not in the Panhandle as the BEE's informant led it to state. There was only one issue 
of the last marriage, Charles Choate who at present is a citizen of Brownsville.