This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Choate and Cowden Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HMB.2ACE/697.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Liz I am looking for the James Choate family. In the 1880 census of Pleasant Hope, Polk County, Mo. Jeff (possibly Jefferson), the son of James Choate was a laboror living with the John A. Cowden family. I am hoping to find out if the Cowden and Choate family were related. Thanks for the reply and if I come up with anything I will post another reply Donna