Josephine or Josie Mitchell

  General Notes:

Yes, found scrip, died at Fort Shaw which was an Indian boarding school at the time.

Born in a camp in Cypress Hills/

excerpt from book "Full Court Quest" re: Fort Shaw

One of the most influential men on the reservation, David Mitchell, son of the legendary fur trader and Indian agent, David Dawson Mitchell, had allowed two of his daughters, fifteen year old Josephine and six year old Nancy, to go to Fort Shaw aboard the very same train that had taken the Wirth sisters west.

Also:

Needing female assistants as well as male, he chose one of his most mature and responsible students, fifteen year old Josephine Mitchell, assuring her that she could continue her studies even while gaining invaluable work experience. - Fort Shaw records says she was 17

She did get married to Frank Choate according to the marriage cert from Family Search.org. However, it shows him having children by another woman during their marriage. Frank married the mother of his children in 1898. It is most likely that the marriage to Josephine was very short-lived; no children were born to this union. She died in the fall of 1899. They probably met at Fort Shaw as he was a student and/or employed there as well.

Yes, that was the case. I found in http://books.google.com/books?id=sNkRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA520&lpg=PA520&dq=frank+choate%22+fort+shaw&source=bl&ots=en07ICcxh3&sig=77oHRexoYPwRJ_3-yOKmyC-fUXc&hl=en&ei=QegdTvWUCe3UiAL5vaCECQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCsQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=frank%20choate%22%20fort%20shaw&f=false

Annual Report of Indian Affairs for Fort Shaw - Josephine and Frank worked together as assistants and likely where they met. They were both appointed the same date: sept 1, 1894.

  Medical Notes:

Last heard from census data 1903

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census, 1888. lists her age as 9 in the 1888 census

• Census. I think she may have died at a young age, possibly 24 years old

Josephine married Frank Choate, son of Samuel Van Choate and Mary Big Ground Wolfchief aka Flying Chief, on 26 Jun 1896 in Fort Shaw. (Frank Choate was born in 1873 in South Fork Sun River Montana.)