Typed by: Kay Cunningham

William E. Oakes

Surnames: OAKES, NEAL, TURNEY, CLARK.

William E. Oakes, b 1829 in Tennessee, d 1868 in Texas -- was a son of Charles and Susan (Neal) Oakes of Tennessee who move to Texas in 1845. William E. Oakes married Eleanor Turney -- a daughter of Moses Turney -- and they had a daughter, Mary Susan, b ca 1860 in Texas, who married James Clark, b 1849 in Mississippi -- who was a younger brother to the man who in 1869 became her stepfather.
William E. Oakes enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, in 1863, and raised a company known as Company B, 2nd Calvary Regiment. He killed the enrollment officer, and escaped into Mexico where he raised another Union Company of Texans, and served as its Captain until the end of that war. He was subsequently appointed, in post-Civil War Texas, as a Delegate to the State Convention. After his death in 1868, his widow, Eleanor (Turney) Oakes, married July 28, 1869, to John Clark, b 1841 in Mississippi -- becoming a stepfather to Mary ("Sue") Oakes, who was to be his sister-in-law a few years later.
The Clarks moved to Brown County, Texas


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"Families of Falls County," Compiled and Edited by the Falls County
Historical Commission, page 331, column 2 and page 332, column 1
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