| I will be glad to tell you what I know of my family line through Amanda Horton (James and Nancy's youngest daughter) in the hope that someday you may add it to that wonderful website. (However, you may already have much of this info somewhere in your files) Amanda Bulloch, b. 11-29-1843, d.6-3-1927, Waco, Tx., (She is buried in Waco's Rose Mound Cemetary in the Sproles Family Plot, with her daughter (Alice Choate Sproles Hearne) and her grandson Samuel H. Sproles, Sr. and his family. Amanda married Pryor Holston Choate, Sr., 12-21-1865, Marriage recorded Jefferson Co., Tx. Pryor was born ca. 1832 in Louisiana, (His parents were John Choate and Hester Clark). Amanda and Pryor were married upon his return from the civil war. (Pryor enlisted in the Confederate Army, Co.F, 5th Texas Infantry, the famed Hood's Texas Brigade, which marched away to Va. and fought for four years under Lee in some of the bitter battles of that war. The wartime deprivation, sickness and wounds from the Battle of the Wilderness were devastating to his health in his later years. I have reviewed his military records both in the National Archives and in the Texas State Library Archives.) Pryor Holston Choate, Sr., d.1-19-78, Oates Settlement,(near Houston) Harris Co.,Tx. He was buried at Oates Cemetary (which I have been told was destroyed). Amanda and Pryor’s children were: 1.) Irvin b. 1866 d. infant..................................................................... 2.) Henry b. 1867 d. infant................................................................... 3.) Pryor H. b. 4-27-1868,d.3-61945,Lamesa,Tx.,Mrd. ............................ 4.) Mary Ida Cook Marion J. b.2-22-1871, d. 1-5-1941, Phoenix, Az.............. 5.) *Lenora Alice b. 2-6-1873,d.7-26-1975,Waco,Tx.,brd.RoseMound Cem,Waco. Married. (1) Henry C. Sproles, 12-7-87, Limestone Co.,Tx. *This is my ggrandmother, she had several husbands over the course of her 102 year lifespan and outlived them all. Her married name at the time of her death in 1975 was Lenora Alice Hearne. 6.) Ida (Ada) May b. 2-14-78 --- ....................................................... Amanda and Pryor never recovered from the hard times that followed the war. She was a school teacher and at the age of 34 found herself as a widow with 3 children and expecting another. I have yet to find her listed in the 1880 census (and of course the 1890 census was destroyed). To my knowledge she never remarried, since she retained the name Choate. She applied for, an was granted, a Confederate widow’s pension from the state of Texas and in later years lived with her adult children helping them raise their families. |
| Here are the decendents of Amanda and Pryor’s children: # 3. Pryor Holston Choate (Jr.), b.1868, d. 3-6-1945, Lamesa, Tx., mrd.1893 to Mary Ida Cook, b.ca.1876. James M. b. ca. 1894 Henry D. b. ca. 1898 Charles W. . b. ca.1901 Joseph B. . b. ca.1903 Horace P. . b. ca.1903 # 4. Marion J. Choate, b.1871, d. 1-5-1941, Phoenix, Az. Mrd. Laure Lou (Lula)__?. (Children, if any, not known) # 5. Lenora Alice Choate, b.1873, d. 7-26-1975, Waco, Tx., married. (1) Henry Corneilius Sproles. (Lenora and Henry mrd. 12-7-1887, Limestone Co., Tx., but were divorced by 1891. **There was one child by this marriage-----my grandfather) 1.) Samuel Houston Sproles (Sr.), b.10-14-1890 WilliamsonCo.,Tx., d.10-22-1963, Waco, Tx. Barried at Rose Mound Cem,Waco, Texas. --------married.Marie Ramsaier,1914, Williamson Co., TX. (Lenora's second marriage was to Mr. Owen. There were two children by this marriage) 2.) Juanita Owen, b. 1-1893, Falls Co., Tx. 3.) Alma Lee Owen, b. 3-1895, Bill Co., Tx. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- # 6. da (Ada) May Choate., b. 1878, married. F.A. Cocke (I have no other information on Ida) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Laura, I hope this fills some gap in your data. I can imagine that James Whitis Bullock and the Choate family came to know one another long before the civil war. The Bullocks passed through Louisiana and the Choates were from Louisiana. Some of the earliest land records in Jefferson Co., Tx. list the Bullock & Choate names and there was probably a prior relationship between these families for Pryor to marry James Whitis’ Bullocks daughter immediately upon returning from the war. Also I know that some of the Bullock and Choate cousins were near neighbors in later years. For example, when I found Pryor H. Choate Jr. and Marion J. Choate in the 1910, Knox Co.,Tx. Census, (E.D. 152) sh.37 & 39, I found Thaddeus Warsaw Bullock, Jr. and family on sh.32. They were all neighbors near Vera, Tx. (I believe Lynda Fredendall is from this line). My aunt, (now deceased) researched some of the earliest Bullock Jefferson Co land transactions and said some of the land was described as the “tops of the spindles” which was a feature of the flat terrain caused by the upward bulge of the underlying salt domes. The world would later come to know it as Spindletop. Ah, the family may have come so close to wealth. If this were true our names today might have been Texaco and Gulf (smile). written by: Sam Sproles -- samandfran@att.net __________________________________________________ |
| Amanda Horton Bulloch b. 11-29-1843 Information given to us by her gggrandson: Sam Sproles |
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