Person Sheet


Name Garrett OAKS
Birth 10 Sep 1791, New Brunswick
Death 6 Apr 1881, Elgin Co., Ontario Age: 89
Death Memo Ontario, Canada Deaths, 1869-1932 Name: Garrett Oakes Death Date: Apr 1881 Death Location: Elgin Gender: Male Estimated birth year: abt 1792 Birth Location: Nb
Father Male OAKS (>1773-)
Spouses
1 Polly LONG
Birth abt 1794, Pennsylvania
Death 21 Nov 1848, Canada Age: 54
Marriage 3 Mar 1812, Charlotteville Twp., Norfolk Co., Ontario
Children Cyrus Hammond
Elva
Harriet
Lyman
Mary Ann
Miriam
Robert Bruce
William Wallace (->1910)
James Hatfield (1822-)
Satira (1827-1910)
Charles Duncombe (1838-1909)
Unmarried
Children Female (->1910)
3 Julia HITCHCOCK
Marriage 1849
Notes for Garrett OAKS
Garrett OAKS is the nephew of Christopher OAKS, the son of James
("Captain John ") OAKS. It is not known which brother of Christopher
OAKS, is the father of Garrett OAKS.

From: hende262@aol.com
Garrett Oakes was born in New Brunswick on September 10, 1791, and
moved with his family to the Long Point Settlement on the north shore
of Lake Erie between 1803 and 1805. By 1811, Oakes had petitioned for
and been granted land on the Talbot Road in Yarmouth Township, where
he was one of the earliest settlers. In the course of his long life,
Garrett Oakes was an inventor, coffin maker, mechanical engineer,
manufacturer of spinning wheels, school teacher, musician,
ventriloquist, sailor, woodsman, and Justice of the Peace. Between
1873 and 1879 he published his memoirs in the form of a series of
thirty one articles published in the Canadian Home Journal and the
St. Thomas Journal. These reminiscences form an oral history of the
early days in the Talbot Settlement and are considered unique in that
they provide a true and accurate description of the time period and
of the difficulties of pioneer life. With his first wife Maria Long,
whom he married in March 1812, Oakes had eleven children, including
sons Robert Bruce (1832-1891) and William Wallace. Maria Long Oakes
died on November 21, 1848, and the next year Oakes married Julia
Hitchcock. Garrett Oakes died April 6, 1881 and was buried in the New
Sarum Baptist Cemetery.

Description of the Oakes family fonds
Elgin County Archives


Creator:
Oakes (family)
Oakes, Garrett
Oakes, Robert Bruce
Oakes, William Wallace

Dates of material: 1863-1872

Physical Description:
4 cm of textual records
1 leather wallet

Repository:
Elgin County Archives

Scope and content:
Fonds consists of diaries created and maintained by William Wallace
Oakes and Robert Bruce Oakes in the course of operating farms and
working as day labourers in the vicinity of St. Thomas and New
Sarum, Ontario. Fonds also includes a leather wallet belonging to
Robert Bruce Oakes.
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