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| Name |
Joab Oakes |
| Born |
May 1804 |
Pittsylvania County, Virginia  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Person ID |
I7653 |
Devin Timber |
| Last Modified |
18 Apr 2012 |
| Family |
Elizabeth Hudson Kirby, b. Dec 1805, Pittsylvania County, Virginia , d. c 1874, Prob. Callands, Pittsylvania Co., Virginia (Age 68 years) |
| Married |
2 Nov 1822 |
Prob. Pittsylvania Co., Virginia |
| Children |
| | 1. Nathaniel Kirby Oakes, b. 1825, Prob. Pitts. Co., VA , d. 1898, Pittsylvania County, Virginia (Age 73 years) |
| | 2. Moses Oakes, b. Abt 1827 |
| | 3. Daniel Oakes, b. Abt 1828 |
| | 4. Samuel Oakes, b. 1829 |
| | 5. Eliza Oakes, b. Abt 1831 |
| | 6. Cintha Oakes, b. Abt 1832 |
| | 7. George Oakes, b. Abt 1835 |
| | 8. Martha Oakes, b. Abt 1836 |
| | 9. Susan Oakes, b. Abt 1838 |
| | 10. Mary Oakes, b. Abt 1841 |
| | 11. Joab Oakes, b. Abt 1844 |
| | 12. William Oakes, b. Abt 1845 |
| | 13. Ruth Oakes, b. Abt 1847 |
| | 14. Kesiah Oakes, b. Abt 1850 |
| | 15. Keron Oakes, b. Abt 1850 |
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| Last Modified |
15 Sep 2012 |
| Family ID |
F2641 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Sources |
- [S67727] Mary Frances Reynolds Eggleston.
Book: An Intimate History of the American Revolution in Pittsylvania County, Virginia by Frances Hallam Hurt.
Pg. 219
In the family William Oakes is known as ?Old Bill,? and he was the father of Joab Oakes. He held lands lying on the east side of Snow Creek and the Kirby family held lands on the west side-part of their 3100 acres in Pittsylvania County. The Kirbys, too, were first tithables, John Kirby I died in 1772, and it was his son, John Kirby, Jr., who served in the Revolution. Bill?s son Moses married Elizabeth Hudson Kirby, who had inherited considerable land from her father, so the lands on both sides on Snow Creek became Oakes-Kirby property where the creek emptied into Pigg River. There was an Indian camp ground on this spot. The Indians were so tough, the family says that the Kirbys and the Oakses found difficulty in establishing homes. Family tradition says that a Kirby girl was scalped at Snow Creek within sight of her home. The road from Museville to Rocky Mount crosses Snow Creek by bridge. It was formerly Kirby?s Ford.
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