Individual Details

Joab Oakes Jr.

(1801 - 2 Oct 1863)

}

== Biography ==
''This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.''

=== Name ===: Name: Joab /Oakes/ Jr.Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005Source: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810Source: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979Source: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039

=== Birth ===
: Birth:
:: Date: 1 Oct 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, VASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 1 Oct 1801

=== Death ===
: Death:
:: Date: 2 Oct 1863:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863
:: Place: Museville, VA
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 2 Oct 1863Array

=== Military Service ===
: Military Service: :: Place: Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039
: Military Service:
:: Date: 10 Mar 1862:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979

=== Residence ===
: Residence: :: Place: USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaConsort EnglandSource: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432
: Residence:
:: Date: 1840:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085

=== Burial ===
: Burial: :: Place: Museville,Pittsylvania,VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085

=== Note ===
: Note: Joab lived in Pittsylvania Co., VA.
:: :: (from the Quill Pen, Genealogical Periodical from VA, #16, February, 1986, pp. 3-6
::
:: "Miss Effie" is Fondly Remembered by Robert C. Vaden Jr. 1974)
:: :: More than 100 years before the community that is now Museville became a post office, the land in the immediate vicinity had been settled by members of the Kirby family, 1746-48.
:: :: John, Francis and William Kirby held separate grants totaling some 1,000 acres near the junction of Snow Creek and Pigg River. The original inhabitants, of course, were Indians, and legend has it that a Kirby girl was scalped at the footbridge over Snow Creek. The original Kirby homestead, on a high bluff nearby, overlooked the site of tragedy.
:: :: Guided by the owner of this property, Mr. Algie Davis, I stood on the picturesque site of this early settlement. Nothing of it remains but a level expanse of ground, and back of it a cemetery of some 50 graves marked only by field stones.
:: :: When Moses Kirby built what is now the oldest standing residence in the community, about 1817, he is said to have removed portions of the original dwelling to the present site on the banks of Snow Creek below.
:: :: This house has been meticulously restored by Mr. Davis, who inherited the property from his father Lee (Babe) Davis who, in turn, had bought if from a member of the Oakes family in 1905.
:: :: Elizabeth Hudson Kirby (1805-74) was a sister of the builder, Moses Kirby, and it was her dower when she married Joab Oakes (1801-65), thereby uniting these two founding families.
:: :: The Kirby house is most interesting, one-and-a-half stories in three sections. The center section is a bit higher than the other two, giving a simple and appealing balance to the exterior view. The lofty paneled mantel in the central room, the wainscoting, the original H&L hinges on doors, the narrow but high windows speak of years gone by.
:: :: Mr. Davis said the house was built in the cove rather than on the hill because the lower location afforded easier access to the wagon loads of tobacco being brought in to nearby barns. Thus the empty wagons were went back up the hill.
:: :: This early tobacco was cured with charcoal, and the sites of these charcoal pits still may be seen where the chestnut wood was turned.
:: :: This and other neighborhood settlements witnessed some of the industries connected with the culture of tobacco. Such a one, at Woodpecker Level in Franklin County, was the beginning of the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company.
:: :: Museville was the location of a tannery, where cowhides were processed for the manufacture of shoes. A by-product of this operation, cow hair, also was used in making plaster.
:: :: The tobacco factory for making plug tobacco, owned an operation by Christopher Lawson Carter (1834-1901), was the principal industry of the community. Mr. Davis recalled that there had been a racetrack "beyond Piney Mountain" owned by Owen Adkins before the Civil War. He said that plug tobacco was hauled to Pennsylvania from this area, and the wagons returned loaded with salt. The Davis family has been located here since 1790, and Col. Christopher Davis, great-uncle of Mr. Davis, was in the Civil War.
:: :: Museville was a post office from 1857 onward (Va. Magazine of History & Biography). Before the name of Museville was used, the post office was called Oak Shop (1851-57). This name may have originated from the prominent Oakes family.
::
:: The name Museville obviously was adapted from the Muse family name.
:: :: Guides for this tour, Miss Carter and Mrs. Minter, pointed out the old sites during a drive through the village of Museville. Here was the old field school taught by Miss Effie Carter, who later moved to Gretna with her sisters Miss Ida and Mrs. J.S Adams.
:: :: "Miss Effie" left an indelible and endearing memory with many hundreds there and in Gretna, where she taught many years. And there was the site of the tobacco plug factory of Christopher Lawson Carter, their father, and grandfather.
:: :: Carter owned much property here and in the Penhook area. It was said that when almost any parcel of land in the area was mentioned "he owned it, had owned it or would own it." He was a successful merchant, manufacturer and real estate operator. A son of Jesse Carter of "Oakland" near Chatham, he was a cousin of the Carters of "Shirley" on the James and of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He married Dorothy Starn Muse in 1862.
:: :: Museville is a picturesque location indeed. Located on a plateau, it affords an unimpeded view of Turkey Cock Mountain and other foothills of the Blue Ridge. Especially impressive as one drives across Pigg River are the giant rock foundations of the now-vanished covered bridge.
:: :: At the village crossroads are two vacant old store buildings, the Smith and the Davis stores. Also within view are two historical residences known as the Joab Oakes (now the Clark Hodges) houses, and the John Smith house. Also in the area is the Museville Christian Church with its historic cemetery.
:: :: Joab Oakes? seven sons fought with the Confederate Army. Mrs. Doris Oakes Minter, who furnished the information on the Oakes family, is a descendant of Joab and Elizabeth Kirby Oakes. The many descendants of this pioneer couple erected handsome monuments to them in the Museville churchyard.
:: :: Mrs. Clark A. Hodges Sr., present owner of the Joab Oakes house, showed the charming interior of this impressive L-shaped two-story house. It is an interesting showplace of early nineteenth century Americana with its marbleized mantels and woodwork and staircase.
:: :: The kitchen, in particular, takes one back many years with its spaciousness and old fashioned accessories. This home has been the lifelong home of three families -- the Oakes who built it, the Washington Hedrick family which came here from Pennsylvania and bought it, and the Hodges family which acquired it through Mrs. Hodges, who was Louise Hedrick, daughter of the pioneer from the Keystone State.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges recalled that the Hedricks had first settled in Pennsylvania from Germany and the name had been originally Von Hedric. The old Hedrick Bible now is in a historical museum in that state, having been brought over by the family from the church in Germany.
:: :: Washington Hedrick donated the land for the local church, which originally was shared by both the Episcopal and Disciples of Christ denominations.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges pointed out the office at her residence where the late Dr. O.L. Ramsey (1874-1953), beloved physician of Gretna, began the practice of his profession. The Ramsey family was settled near Museville prior to the Revolutionary War (memoir of A.F. Ramsey), the original settler being Thomas F. Ramsey, who came here from Pennsylvania.
:: :: Dr. Ramsey?S father was Col. William Ramsey of the C.S.A. Dr. R. T. Ramsey, another Gretna physician, also was a descendant of Thomas Ramsey, as was Rev. A.F. Ramsey. The old Ramsey home is a few miles from Museville on Tomahawk Creek.
:: :: Connected with the Ramsey and Mahan families are the many descendants of Harmon Cook. He was a colonizer who settled thousands of acres on Tomahawk Creek and Pigg River toward the end of the 19th century. The settlers which followed him used the well-traveled route from Pennsylvania down the Shenandoah Valley.
:: :: One of the settlers brought in with Harmon Cook was Capt. Abram Rorer, ancestor of many area residents, including the Rorer James family of newspaper publishers in Danville.
:: :: The John Smith house at Museville, now unoccupied but owned by Mrs. Rob Reynolds, who was Smith?s daughter, is quite impressive from the outside. It is a lofty two stories with old looking windows. Smith, a prominent merchant, bought the house in the 1890?s.
:: :: In years past Museville was a center of many activities. there were bicycle races, bowling matches, country dances, a saloon, horse races and, of course, a magistrate holding court. One such busy magistrate was "Squire" Davis.
:: :: (Museville is located in NW Pittsylvania County a scant two miles from the Franklin County Line. It is south of Route 40 some four miles, and south of Pigg River.)

=== Object ===
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=68c3b71e-e192-4191-98e4-2e23bfbcc52d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm:: Title: Per NPS.ORG, Joab Oakes was a confederate soldier; 21st regiment, Virginia Infantry
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=e4ac9789-9dfb-4544-86bd-33a716e90b0b&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: Elizabeth Kirby tombstone
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=6a545b5d-d16d-435b-a18b-3662fbb3429e&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes008
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=828da821-a97b-4f4e-b0d6-80881aba7346&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes009
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=f50fd13e-e95c-42e3-81c0-b92bfc8215cf&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes002
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=b39c0511-9c7a-4f78-b9c9-ccb8bc66bdf8&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes004
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=4555f165-7d11-40fb-a99e-fa850478467d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm
:: Title: Joab Oakes Sr

=== Marriage ===

: Husband: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Kirby-1124|Elizabeth Hudson Kirby]]
: Child: [[Oakes-325|Sarah D Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-316|Nathaniel Kirby Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-342|Moses Kirby Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-332|Daniel Webster Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-344|Samuel W Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-336|Eliza Catherine Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-322|Cynthia M Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-340|Martha W. Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-300|Susan Missouri Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-337|Joab Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-341|Mary Kate Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-345|William Preston Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-343|Ruth S Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-306|Keron Thankful Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-339|Kizzier Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-338|John W. Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Marriage:
:: Date: 2 Nov 1822:: Place: Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810

: Husband: [[Oakes-351|William Old Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Smith-47106|Ruth Smith]]
: Child: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-423|George Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-477|Sabra A Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-403|Catherine Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-411|Daniel Warner Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: @P1269@
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Marriage: :: Date: 1813Source: [[#S-1592449165]] Page: Source number: 1590.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RDP APID: 1,7836::902397
: Marriage:
:: Date: 30 Aug 1801:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592449616]] APID: 1,3723::162557

== Sources ==
* Source: S-1592449165 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. APID: 1,7836::0 * Repository: R-2142460164 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com* Source: S-1592449616 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1592483958 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 Publication: National Park Service. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. APID: 1,1138::0 * Source: S-1592483990 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles Publication: Historical Data Systems, comp.. U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. APID: 1,1555::0 * Source: S-1592484040 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1616615076 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1, Note: APID: 1,8055::0 * Source: S-1616615308 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1830 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Gr Note: APID: 1,8058::0 * Source: S-1616649987 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1840 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record G Note: APID: 1,8057::0 * Source: S-1616776432 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1860 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Note: APID: 1,7667::0 * Source: S-1616776448 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Note: APID: 1,8054::0 * Source: S-1636241691 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Web: Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1607-2011 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 29 January 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi Note: APID: 1,70635::0 * Source: S-1846132817 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1880 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited Note: APID: 1,6742::0 * Source: S-2091353993 Repository: [[#R-2142460163]] Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;; Note: Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). * Repository: R-2142460163 Name: www.ancestry.com

=== Acknowledgments ===
Thank you to [[Stiles-1327 | Robert Stiles]] for creating WikiTree profile Oakes-346 through the import of 2013-07-01.ged on Jul 1, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Robert and others.

}

== Biography ==
''This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.''

=== Name ===: Name: Joab /Oakes/ Jr.Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005Source: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810Source: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979Source: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039

=== Birth ===
: Birth:
:: Date: 1 Oct 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, VASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 1 Oct 1801

=== Death ===
: Death:
:: Date: 2 Oct 1863:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863
:: Place: Museville, VA
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 2 Oct 1863Array

=== Military Service ===
: Military Service: :: Place: Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039
: Military Service:
:: Date: 10 Mar 1862:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979

=== Residence ===
: Residence: :: Place: USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaConsort EnglandSource: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432
: Residence:
:: Date: 1840:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085

=== Burial ===
: Burial: :: Place: Museville,Pittsylvania,VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085

=== Note ===
: Note: Joab lived in Pittsylvania Co., VA.
:: :: (from the Quill Pen, Genealogical Periodical from VA, #16, February, 1986, pp. 3-6
::
:: "Miss Effie" is Fondly Remembered by Robert C. Vaden Jr. 1974)
:: :: More than 100 years before the community that is now Museville became a post office, the land in the immediate vicinity had been settled by members of the Kirby family, 1746-48.
:: :: John, Francis and William Kirby held separate grants totaling some 1,000 acres near the junction of Snow Creek and Pigg River. The original inhabitants, of course, were Indians, and legend has it that a Kirby girl was scalped at the footbridge over Snow Creek. The original Kirby homestead, on a high bluff nearby, overlooked the site of tragedy.
:: :: Guided by the owner of this property, Mr. Algie Davis, I stood on the picturesque site of this early settlement. Nothing of it remains but a level expanse of ground, and back of it a cemetery of some 50 graves marked only by field stones.
:: :: When Moses Kirby built what is now the oldest standing residence in the community, about 1817, he is said to have removed portions of the original dwelling to the present site on the banks of Snow Creek below.
:: :: This house has been meticulously restored by Mr. Davis, who inherited the property from his father Lee (Babe) Davis who, in turn, had bought if from a member of the Oakes family in 1905.
:: :: Elizabeth Hudson Kirby (1805-74) was a sister of the builder, Moses Kirby, and it was her dower when she married Joab Oakes (1801-65), thereby uniting these two founding families.
:: :: The Kirby house is most interesting, one-and-a-half stories in three sections. The center section is a bit higher than the other two, giving a simple and appealing balance to the exterior view. The lofty paneled mantel in the central room, the wainscoting, the original H&L hinges on doors, the narrow but high windows speak of years gone by.
:: :: Mr. Davis said the house was built in the cove rather than on the hill because the lower location afforded easier access to the wagon loads of tobacco being brought in to nearby barns. Thus the empty wagons were went back up the hill.
:: :: This early tobacco was cured with charcoal, and the sites of these charcoal pits still may be seen where the chestnut wood was turned.
:: :: This and other neighborhood settlements witnessed some of the industries connected with the culture of tobacco. Such a one, at Woodpecker Level in Franklin County, was the beginning of the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company.
:: :: Museville was the location of a tannery, where cowhides were processed for the manufacture of shoes. A by-product of this operation, cow hair, also was used in making plaster.
:: :: The tobacco factory for making plug tobacco, owned an operation by Christopher Lawson Carter (1834-1901), was the principal industry of the community. Mr. Davis recalled that there had been a racetrack "beyond Piney Mountain" owned by Owen Adkins before the Civil War. He said that plug tobacco was hauled to Pennsylvania from this area, and the wagons returned loaded with salt. The Davis family has been located here since 1790, and Col. Christopher Davis, great-uncle of Mr. Davis, was in the Civil War.
:: :: Museville was a post office from 1857 onward (Va. Magazine of History & Biography). Before the name of Museville was used, the post office was called Oak Shop (1851-57). This name may have originated from the prominent Oakes family.
::
:: The name Museville obviously was adapted from the Muse family name.
:: :: Guides for this tour, Miss Carter and Mrs. Minter, pointed out the old sites during a drive through the village of Museville. Here was the old field school taught by Miss Effie Carter, who later moved to Gretna with her sisters Miss Ida and Mrs. J.S Adams.
:: :: "Miss Effie" left an indelible and endearing memory with many hundreds there and in Gretna, where she taught many years. And there was the site of the tobacco plug factory of Christopher Lawson Carter, their father, and grandfather.
:: :: Carter owned much property here and in the Penhook area. It was said that when almost any parcel of land in the area was mentioned "he owned it, had owned it or would own it." He was a successful merchant, manufacturer and real estate operator. A son of Jesse Carter of "Oakland" near Chatham, he was a cousin of the Carters of "Shirley" on the James and of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He married Dorothy Starn Muse in 1862.
:: :: Museville is a picturesque location indeed. Located on a plateau, it affords an unimpeded view of Turkey Cock Mountain and other foothills of the Blue Ridge. Especially impressive as one drives across Pigg River are the giant rock foundations of the now-vanished covered bridge.
:: :: At the village crossroads are two vacant old store buildings, the Smith and the Davis stores. Also within view are two historical residences known as the Joab Oakes (now the Clark Hodges) houses, and the John Smith house. Also in the area is the Museville Christian Church with its historic cemetery.
:: :: Joab Oakes? seven sons fought with the Confederate Army. Mrs. Doris Oakes Minter, who furnished the information on the Oakes family, is a descendant of Joab and Elizabeth Kirby Oakes. The many descendants of this pioneer couple erected handsome monuments to them in the Museville churchyard.
:: :: Mrs. Clark A. Hodges Sr., present owner of the Joab Oakes house, showed the charming interior of this impressive L-shaped two-story house. It is an interesting showplace of early nineteenth century Americana with its marbleized mantels and woodwork and staircase.
:: :: The kitchen, in particular, takes one back many years with its spaciousness and old fashioned accessories. This home has been the lifelong home of three families -- the Oakes who built it, the Washington Hedrick family which came here from Pennsylvania and bought it, and the Hodges family which acquired it through Mrs. Hodges, who was Louise Hedrick, daughter of the pioneer from the Keystone State.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges recalled that the Hedricks had first settled in Pennsylvania from Germany and the name had been originally Von Hedric. The old Hedrick Bible now is in a historical museum in that state, having been brought over by the family from the church in Germany.
:: :: Washington Hedrick donated the land for the local church, which originally was shared by both the Episcopal and Disciples of Christ denominations.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges pointed out the office at her residence where the late Dr. O.L. Ramsey (1874-1953), beloved physician of Gretna, began the practice of his profession. The Ramsey family was settled near Museville prior to the Revolutionary War (memoir of A.F. Ramsey), the original settler being Thomas F. Ramsey, who came here from Pennsylvania.
:: :: Dr. Ramsey?S father was Col. William Ramsey of the C.S.A. Dr. R. T. Ramsey, another Gretna physician, also was a descendant of Thomas Ramsey, as was Rev. A.F. Ramsey. The old Ramsey home is a few miles from Museville on Tomahawk Creek.
:: :: Connected with the Ramsey and Mahan families are the many descendants of Harmon Cook. He was a colonizer who settled thousands of acres on Tomahawk Creek and Pigg River toward the end of the 19th century. The settlers which followed him used the well-traveled route from Pennsylvania down the Shenandoah Valley.
:: :: One of the settlers brought in with Harmon Cook was Capt. Abram Rorer, ancestor of many area residents, including the Rorer James family of newspaper publishers in Danville.
:: :: The John Smith house at Museville, now unoccupied but owned by Mrs. Rob Reynolds, who was Smith?s daughter, is quite impressive from the outside. It is a lofty two stories with old looking windows. Smith, a prominent merchant, bought the house in the 1890?s.
:: :: In years past Museville was a center of many activities. there were bicycle races, bowling matches, country dances, a saloon, horse races and, of course, a magistrate holding court. One such busy magistrate was "Squire" Davis.
:: :: (Museville is located in NW Pittsylvania County a scant two miles from the Franklin County Line. It is south of Route 40 some four miles, and south of Pigg River.)

=== Object ===
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=68c3b71e-e192-4191-98e4-2e23bfbcc52d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm:: Title: Per NPS.ORG, Joab Oakes was a confederate soldier; 21st regiment, Virginia Infantry
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=e4ac9789-9dfb-4544-86bd-33a716e90b0b&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: Elizabeth Kirby tombstone
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=6a545b5d-d16d-435b-a18b-3662fbb3429e&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes008
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=828da821-a97b-4f4e-b0d6-80881aba7346&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes009
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=f50fd13e-e95c-42e3-81c0-b92bfc8215cf&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes002
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=b39c0511-9c7a-4f78-b9c9-ccb8bc66bdf8&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes004
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=4555f165-7d11-40fb-a99e-fa850478467d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm
:: Title: Joab Oakes Sr

=== Marriage ===

: Husband: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Kirby-1124|Elizabeth Hudson Kirby]]
: Child: [[Oakes-325|Sarah D Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-316|Nathaniel Kirby Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-342|Moses Kirby Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-332|Daniel Webster Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-344|Samuel W Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-336|Eliza Catherine Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-322|Cynthia M Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-340|Martha W. Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-300|Susan Missouri Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-337|Joab Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-341|Mary Kate Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-345|William Preston Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-343|Ruth S Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-306|Keron Thankful Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-339|Kizzier Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-338|John W. Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Marriage:
:: Date: 2 Nov 1822:: Place: Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810

: Husband: [[Oakes-351|William Old Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Smith-47106|Ruth Smith]]
: Child: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-423|George Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-477|Sabra A Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-403|Catherine Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-411|Daniel Warner Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: @P1269@
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Marriage: :: Date: 1813Source: [[#S-1592449165]] Page: Source number: 1590.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RDP APID: 1,7836::902397
: Marriage:
:: Date: 30 Aug 1801:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592449616]] APID: 1,3723::162557

== Sources ==
* Source: S-1592449165 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. APID: 1,7836::0 * Repository: R-2142460164 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com* Source: S-1592449616 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1592483958 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 Publication: National Park Service. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. APID: 1,1138::0 * Source: S-1592483990 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles Publication: Historical Data Systems, comp.. U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. APID: 1,1555::0 * Source: S-1592484040 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1616615076 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1, Note: APID: 1,8055::0 * Source: S-1616615308 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1830 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Gr Note: APID: 1,8058::0 * Source: S-1616649987 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1840 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record G Note: APID: 1,8057::0 * Source: S-1616776432 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1860 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Note: APID: 1,7667::0 * Source: S-1616776448 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Note: APID: 1,8054::0 * Source: S-1636241691 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Web: Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1607-2011 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 29 January 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi Note: APID: 1,70635::0 * Source: S-1846132817 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1880 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited Note: APID: 1,6742::0 * Source: S-2091353993 Repository: [[#R-2142460163]] Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;; Note: Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). * Repository: R-2142460163 Name: www.ancestry.com

=== Acknowledgments ===
Thank you to [[Stiles-1327 | Robert Stiles]] for creating WikiTree profile Oakes-346 through the import of 2013-07-01.ged on Jul 1, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Robert and others.

}

== Biography ==
''This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.''

=== Name ===: Name: Joab /Oakes/ Jr.Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005Source: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810Source: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979Source: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039

=== Birth ===
: Birth:
:: Date: 1 Oct 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, VASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 1 Oct 1801

=== Death ===
: Death:
:: Date: 2 Oct 1863:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863
:: Place: Museville, VA
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 2 Oct 1863Array

=== Military Service ===
: Military Service: :: Place: Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039
: Military Service:
:: Date: 10 Mar 1862:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979

=== Residence ===
: Residence: :: Place: USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaConsort EnglandSource: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432
: Residence:
:: Date: 1840:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085

=== Burial ===
: Burial: :: Place: Museville,Pittsylvania,VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085

=== Note ===
: Note: Joab lived in Pittsylvania Co., VA.
:: :: (from the Quill Pen, Genealogical Periodical from VA, #16, February, 1986, pp. 3-6
::
:: "Miss Effie" is Fondly Remembered by Robert C. Vaden Jr. 1974)
:: :: More than 100 years before the community that is now Museville became a post office, the land in the immediate vicinity had been settled by members of the Kirby family, 1746-48.
:: :: John, Francis and William Kirby held separate grants totaling some 1,000 acres near the junction of Snow Creek and Pigg River. The original inhabitants, of course, were Indians, and legend has it that a Kirby girl was scalped at the footbridge over Snow Creek. The original Kirby homestead, on a high bluff nearby, overlooked the site of tragedy.
:: :: Guided by the owner of this property, Mr. Algie Davis, I stood on the picturesque site of this early settlement. Nothing of it remains but a level expanse of ground, and back of it a cemetery of some 50 graves marked only by field stones.
:: :: When Moses Kirby built what is now the oldest standing residence in the community, about 1817, he is said to have removed portions of the original dwelling to the present site on the banks of Snow Creek below.
:: :: This house has been meticulously restored by Mr. Davis, who inherited the property from his father Lee (Babe) Davis who, in turn, had bought if from a member of the Oakes family in 1905.
:: :: Elizabeth Hudson Kirby (1805-74) was a sister of the builder, Moses Kirby, and it was her dower when she married Joab Oakes (1801-65), thereby uniting these two founding families.
:: :: The Kirby house is most interesting, one-and-a-half stories in three sections. The center section is a bit higher than the other two, giving a simple and appealing balance to the exterior view. The lofty paneled mantel in the central room, the wainscoting, the original H&L hinges on doors, the narrow but high windows speak of years gone by.
:: :: Mr. Davis said the house was built in the cove rather than on the hill because the lower location afforded easier access to the wagon loads of tobacco being brought in to nearby barns. Thus the empty wagons were went back up the hill.
:: :: This early tobacco was cured with charcoal, and the sites of these charcoal pits still may be seen where the chestnut wood was turned.
:: :: This and other neighborhood settlements witnessed some of the industries connected with the culture of tobacco. Such a one, at Woodpecker Level in Franklin County, was the beginning of the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company.
:: :: Museville was the location of a tannery, where cowhides were processed for the manufacture of shoes. A by-product of this operation, cow hair, also was used in making plaster.
:: :: The tobacco factory for making plug tobacco, owned an operation by Christopher Lawson Carter (1834-1901), was the principal industry of the community. Mr. Davis recalled that there had been a racetrack "beyond Piney Mountain" owned by Owen Adkins before the Civil War. He said that plug tobacco was hauled to Pennsylvania from this area, and the wagons returned loaded with salt. The Davis family has been located here since 1790, and Col. Christopher Davis, great-uncle of Mr. Davis, was in the Civil War.
:: :: Museville was a post office from 1857 onward (Va. Magazine of History & Biography). Before the name of Museville was used, the post office was called Oak Shop (1851-57). This name may have originated from the prominent Oakes family.
::
:: The name Museville obviously was adapted from the Muse family name.
:: :: Guides for this tour, Miss Carter and Mrs. Minter, pointed out the old sites during a drive through the village of Museville. Here was the old field school taught by Miss Effie Carter, who later moved to Gretna with her sisters Miss Ida and Mrs. J.S Adams.
:: :: "Miss Effie" left an indelible and endearing memory with many hundreds there and in Gretna, where she taught many years. And there was the site of the tobacco plug factory of Christopher Lawson Carter, their father, and grandfather.
:: :: Carter owned much property here and in the Penhook area. It was said that when almost any parcel of land in the area was mentioned "he owned it, had owned it or would own it." He was a successful merchant, manufacturer and real estate operator. A son of Jesse Carter of "Oakland" near Chatham, he was a cousin of the Carters of "Shirley" on the James and of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He married Dorothy Starn Muse in 1862.
:: :: Museville is a picturesque location indeed. Located on a plateau, it affords an unimpeded view of Turkey Cock Mountain and other foothills of the Blue Ridge. Especially impressive as one drives across Pigg River are the giant rock foundations of the now-vanished covered bridge.
:: :: At the village crossroads are two vacant old store buildings, the Smith and the Davis stores. Also within view are two historical residences known as the Joab Oakes (now the Clark Hodges) houses, and the John Smith house. Also in the area is the Museville Christian Church with its historic cemetery.
:: :: Joab Oakes? seven sons fought with the Confederate Army. Mrs. Doris Oakes Minter, who furnished the information on the Oakes family, is a descendant of Joab and Elizabeth Kirby Oakes. The many descendants of this pioneer couple erected handsome monuments to them in the Museville churchyard.
:: :: Mrs. Clark A. Hodges Sr., present owner of the Joab Oakes house, showed the charming interior of this impressive L-shaped two-story house. It is an interesting showplace of early nineteenth century Americana with its marbleized mantels and woodwork and staircase.
:: :: The kitchen, in particular, takes one back many years with its spaciousness and old fashioned accessories. This home has been the lifelong home of three families -- the Oakes who built it, the Washington Hedrick family which came here from Pennsylvania and bought it, and the Hodges family which acquired it through Mrs. Hodges, who was Louise Hedrick, daughter of the pioneer from the Keystone State.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges recalled that the Hedricks had first settled in Pennsylvania from Germany and the name had been originally Von Hedric. The old Hedrick Bible now is in a historical museum in that state, having been brought over by the family from the church in Germany.
:: :: Washington Hedrick donated the land for the local church, which originally was shared by both the Episcopal and Disciples of Christ denominations.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges pointed out the office at her residence where the late Dr. O.L. Ramsey (1874-1953), beloved physician of Gretna, began the practice of his profession. The Ramsey family was settled near Museville prior to the Revolutionary War (memoir of A.F. Ramsey), the original settler being Thomas F. Ramsey, who came here from Pennsylvania.
:: :: Dr. Ramsey?S father was Col. William Ramsey of the C.S.A. Dr. R. T. Ramsey, another Gretna physician, also was a descendant of Thomas Ramsey, as was Rev. A.F. Ramsey. The old Ramsey home is a few miles from Museville on Tomahawk Creek.
:: :: Connected with the Ramsey and Mahan families are the many descendants of Harmon Cook. He was a colonizer who settled thousands of acres on Tomahawk Creek and Pigg River toward the end of the 19th century. The settlers which followed him used the well-traveled route from Pennsylvania down the Shenandoah Valley.
:: :: One of the settlers brought in with Harmon Cook was Capt. Abram Rorer, ancestor of many area residents, including the Rorer James family of newspaper publishers in Danville.
:: :: The John Smith house at Museville, now unoccupied but owned by Mrs. Rob Reynolds, who was Smith?s daughter, is quite impressive from the outside. It is a lofty two stories with old looking windows. Smith, a prominent merchant, bought the house in the 1890?s.
:: :: In years past Museville was a center of many activities. there were bicycle races, bowling matches, country dances, a saloon, horse races and, of course, a magistrate holding court. One such busy magistrate was "Squire" Davis.
:: :: (Museville is located in NW Pittsylvania County a scant two miles from the Franklin County Line. It is south of Route 40 some four miles, and south of Pigg River.)

=== Object ===
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=68c3b71e-e192-4191-98e4-2e23bfbcc52d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm:: Title: Per NPS.ORG, Joab Oakes was a confederate soldier; 21st regiment, Virginia Infantry
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=e4ac9789-9dfb-4544-86bd-33a716e90b0b&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: Elizabeth Kirby tombstone
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=6a545b5d-d16d-435b-a18b-3662fbb3429e&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes008
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=828da821-a97b-4f4e-b0d6-80881aba7346&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes009
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=f50fd13e-e95c-42e3-81c0-b92bfc8215cf&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes002
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=b39c0511-9c7a-4f78-b9c9-ccb8bc66bdf8&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes004
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=4555f165-7d11-40fb-a99e-fa850478467d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm
:: Title: Joab Oakes Sr

=== Marriage ===

: Husband: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Kirby-1124|Elizabeth Hudson Kirby]]
: Child: [[Oakes-325|Sarah D Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-316|Nathaniel Kirby Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-342|Moses Kirby Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-332|Daniel Webster Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-344|Samuel W Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-336|Eliza Catherine Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-322|Cynthia M Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-340|Martha W. Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-300|Susan Missouri Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-337|Joab Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-341|Mary Kate Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-345|William Preston Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-343|Ruth S Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-306|Keron Thankful Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-339|Kizzier Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-338|John W. Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Marriage:
:: Date: 2 Nov 1822:: Place: Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810

: Husband: [[Oakes-351|William Old Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Smith-47106|Ruth Smith]]
: Child: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-423|George Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-477|Sabra A Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-403|Catherine Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-411|Daniel Warner Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: @P1269@
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Marriage: :: Date: 1813Source: [[#S-1592449165]] Page: Source number: 1590.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RDP APID: 1,7836::902397
: Marriage:
:: Date: 30 Aug 1801:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592449616]] APID: 1,3723::162557

== Sources ==
* Source: S-1592449165 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. APID: 1,7836::0 * Repository: R-2142460164 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com* Source: S-1592449616 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1592483958 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 Publication: National Park Service. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. APID: 1,1138::0 * Source: S-1592483990 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles Publication: Historical Data Systems, comp.. U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. APID: 1,1555::0 * Source: S-1592484040 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1616615076 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1, Note: APID: 1,8055::0 * Source: S-1616615308 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1830 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Gr Note: APID: 1,8058::0 * Source: S-1616649987 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1840 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record G Note: APID: 1,8057::0 * Source: S-1616776432 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1860 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Note: APID: 1,7667::0 * Source: S-1616776448 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Note: APID: 1,8054::0 * Source: S-1636241691 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Web: Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1607-2011 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 29 January 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi Note: APID: 1,70635::0 * Source: S-1846132817 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1880 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited Note: APID: 1,6742::0 * Source: S-2091353993 Repository: [[#R-2142460163]] Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;; Note: Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). * Repository: R-2142460163 Name: www.ancestry.com

=== Acknowledgments ===
Thank you to [[Stiles-1327 | Robert Stiles]] for creating WikiTree profile Oakes-346 through the import of 2013-07-01.ged on Jul 1, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Robert and others.

-- MERGED NOTE ------------

}

== Biography ==
''This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.''

=== Name ===: Name: Joab /Oakes/ Jr.Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005Source: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810Source: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979Source: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039

=== Birth ===
: Birth:
:: Date: 1 Oct 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, VASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 1 Oct 1801

=== Death ===
: Death:
:: Date: 2 Oct 1863:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863
:: Place: Museville, VA
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 2 Oct 1863Array

=== Military Service ===
: Military Service: :: Place: Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039
: Military Service:
:: Date: 10 Mar 1862:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979

=== Residence ===
: Residence: :: Place: USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaConsort EnglandSource: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432
: Residence:
:: Date: 1840:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085

=== Burial ===
: Burial: :: Place: Museville,Pittsylvania,VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085

=== Note ===
: Note: Joab lived in Pittsylvania Co., VA.
:: :: (from the Quill Pen, Genealogical Periodical from VA, #16, February, 1986, pp. 3-6
::
:: "Miss Effie" is Fondly Remembered by Robert C. Vaden Jr. 1974)
:: :: More than 100 years before the community that is now Museville became a post office, the land in the immediate vicinity had been settled by members of the Kirby family, 1746-48.
:: :: John, Francis and William Kirby held separate grants totaling some 1,000 acres near the junction of Snow Creek and Pigg River. The original inhabitants, of course, were Indians, and legend has it that a Kirby girl was scalped at the footbridge over Snow Creek. The original Kirby homestead, on a high bluff nearby, overlooked the site of tragedy.
:: :: Guided by the owner of this property, Mr. Algie Davis, I stood on the picturesque site of this early settlement. Nothing of it remains but a level expanse of ground, and back of it a cemetery of some 50 graves marked only by field stones.
:: :: When Moses Kirby built what is now the oldest standing residence in the community, about 1817, he is said to have removed portions of the original dwelling to the present site on the banks of Snow Creek below.
:: :: This house has been meticulously restored by Mr. Davis, who inherited the property from his father Lee (Babe) Davis who, in turn, had bought if from a member of the Oakes family in 1905.
:: :: Elizabeth Hudson Kirby (1805-74) was a sister of the builder, Moses Kirby, and it was her dower when she married Joab Oakes (1801-65), thereby uniting these two founding families.
:: :: The Kirby house is most interesting, one-and-a-half stories in three sections. The center section is a bit higher than the other two, giving a simple and appealing balance to the exterior view. The lofty paneled mantel in the central room, the wainscoting, the original H&L hinges on doors, the narrow but high windows speak of years gone by.
:: :: Mr. Davis said the house was built in the cove rather than on the hill because the lower location afforded easier access to the wagon loads of tobacco being brought in to nearby barns. Thus the empty wagons were went back up the hill.
:: :: This early tobacco was cured with charcoal, and the sites of these charcoal pits still may be seen where the chestnut wood was turned.
:: :: This and other neighborhood settlements witnessed some of the industries connected with the culture of tobacco. Such a one, at Woodpecker Level in Franklin County, was the beginning of the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company.
:: :: Museville was the location of a tannery, where cowhides were processed for the manufacture of shoes. A by-product of this operation, cow hair, also was used in making plaster.
:: :: The tobacco factory for making plug tobacco, owned an operation by Christopher Lawson Carter (1834-1901), was the principal industry of the community. Mr. Davis recalled that there had been a racetrack "beyond Piney Mountain" owned by Owen Adkins before the Civil War. He said that plug tobacco was hauled to Pennsylvania from this area, and the wagons returned loaded with salt. The Davis family has been located here since 1790, and Col. Christopher Davis, great-uncle of Mr. Davis, was in the Civil War.
:: :: Museville was a post office from 1857 onward (Va. Magazine of History & Biography). Before the name of Museville was used, the post office was called Oak Shop (1851-57). This name may have originated from the prominent Oakes family.
::
:: The name Museville obviously was adapted from the Muse family name.
:: :: Guides for this tour, Miss Carter and Mrs. Minter, pointed out the old sites during a drive through the village of Museville. Here was the old field school taught by Miss Effie Carter, who later moved to Gretna with her sisters Miss Ida and Mrs. J.S Adams.
:: :: "Miss Effie" left an indelible and endearing memory with many hundreds there and in Gretna, where she taught many years. And there was the site of the tobacco plug factory of Christopher Lawson Carter, their father, and grandfather.
:: :: Carter owned much property here and in the Penhook area. It was said that when almost any parcel of land in the area was mentioned "he owned it, had owned it or would own it." He was a successful merchant, manufacturer and real estate operator. A son of Jesse Carter of "Oakland" near Chatham, he was a cousin of the Carters of "Shirley" on the James and of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He married Dorothy Starn Muse in 1862.
:: :: Museville is a picturesque location indeed. Located on a plateau, it affords an unimpeded view of Turkey Cock Mountain and other foothills of the Blue Ridge. Especially impressive as one drives across Pigg River are the giant rock foundations of the now-vanished covered bridge.
:: :: At the village crossroads are two vacant old store buildings, the Smith and the Davis stores. Also within view are two historical residences known as the Joab Oakes (now the Clark Hodges) houses, and the John Smith house. Also in the area is the Museville Christian Church with its historic cemetery.
:: :: Joab Oakes? seven sons fought with the Confederate Army. Mrs. Doris Oakes Minter, who furnished the information on the Oakes family, is a descendant of Joab and Elizabeth Kirby Oakes. The many descendants of this pioneer couple erected handsome monuments to them in the Museville churchyard.
:: :: Mrs. Clark A. Hodges Sr., present owner of the Joab Oakes house, showed the charming interior of this impressive L-shaped two-story house. It is an interesting showplace of early nineteenth century Americana with its marbleized mantels and woodwork and staircase.
:: :: The kitchen, in particular, takes one back many years with its spaciousness and old fashioned accessories. This home has been the lifelong home of three families -- the Oakes who built it, the Washington Hedrick family which came here from Pennsylvania and bought it, and the Hodges family which acquired it through Mrs. Hodges, who was Louise Hedrick, daughter of the pioneer from the Keystone State.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges recalled that the Hedricks had first settled in Pennsylvania from Germany and the name had been originally Von Hedric. The old Hedrick Bible now is in a historical museum in that state, having been brought over by the family from the church in Germany.
:: :: Washington Hedrick donated the land for the local church, which originally was shared by both the Episcopal and Disciples of Christ denominations.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges pointed out the office at her residence where the late Dr. O.L. Ramsey (1874-1953), beloved physician of Gretna, began the practice of his profession. The Ramsey family was settled near Museville prior to the Revolutionary War (memoir of A.F. Ramsey), the original settler being Thomas F. Ramsey, who came here from Pennsylvania.
:: :: Dr. Ramsey?S father was Col. William Ramsey of the C.S.A. Dr. R. T. Ramsey, another Gretna physician, also was a descendant of Thomas Ramsey, as was Rev. A.F. Ramsey. The old Ramsey home is a few miles from Museville on Tomahawk Creek.
:: :: Connected with the Ramsey and Mahan families are the many descendants of Harmon Cook. He was a colonizer who settled thousands of acres on Tomahawk Creek and Pigg River toward the end of the 19th century. The settlers which followed him used the well-traveled route from Pennsylvania down the Shenandoah Valley.
:: :: One of the settlers brought in with Harmon Cook was Capt. Abram Rorer, ancestor of many area residents, including the Rorer James family of newspaper publishers in Danville.
:: :: The John Smith house at Museville, now unoccupied but owned by Mrs. Rob Reynolds, who was Smith?s daughter, is quite impressive from the outside. It is a lofty two stories with old looking windows. Smith, a prominent merchant, bought the house in the 1890?s.
:: :: In years past Museville was a center of many activities. there were bicycle races, bowling matches, country dances, a saloon, horse races and, of course, a magistrate holding court. One such busy magistrate was "Squire" Davis.
:: :: (Museville is located in NW Pittsylvania County a scant two miles from the Franklin County Line. It is south of Route 40 some four miles, and south of Pigg River.)

=== Object ===
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=68c3b71e-e192-4191-98e4-2e23bfbcc52d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm:: Title: Per NPS.ORG, Joab Oakes was a confederate soldier; 21st regiment, Virginia Infantry
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=e4ac9789-9dfb-4544-86bd-33a716e90b0b&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: Elizabeth Kirby tombstone
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=6a545b5d-d16d-435b-a18b-3662fbb3429e&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes008
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=828da821-a97b-4f4e-b0d6-80881aba7346&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes009
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=f50fd13e-e95c-42e3-81c0-b92bfc8215cf&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes002
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=b39c0511-9c7a-4f78-b9c9-ccb8bc66bdf8&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes004
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=4555f165-7d11-40fb-a99e-fa850478467d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm
:: Title: Joab Oakes Sr

=== Marriage ===

: Husband: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Kirby-1124|Elizabeth Hudson Kirby]]
: Child: [[Oakes-325|Sarah D Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-316|Nathaniel Kirby Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-342|Moses Kirby Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-332|Daniel Webster Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-344|Samuel W Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-336|Eliza Catherine Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-322|Cynthia M Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-340|Martha W. Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-300|Susan Missouri Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-337|Joab Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-341|Mary Kate Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-345|William Preston Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-343|Ruth S Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-306|Keron Thankful Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-339|Kizzier Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-338|John W. Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Marriage:
:: Date: 2 Nov 1822:: Place: Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810

: Husband: [[Oakes-351|William Old Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Smith-47106|Ruth Smith]]
: Child: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-423|George Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-477|Sabra A Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-403|Catherine Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-411|Daniel Warner Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: @P1269@
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Marriage: :: Date: 1813Source: [[#S-1592449165]] Page: Source number: 1590.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RDP APID: 1,7836::902397
: Marriage:
:: Date: 30 Aug 1801:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592449616]] APID: 1,3723::162557

== Sources ==
* Source: S-1592449165 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. APID: 1,7836::0 * Repository: R-2142460164 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com* Source: S-1592449616 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1592483958 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 Publication: National Park Service. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. APID: 1,1138::0 * Source: S-1592483990 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles Publication: Historical Data Systems, comp.. U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. APID: 1,1555::0 * Source: S-1592484040 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1616615076 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1, Note: APID: 1,8055::0 * Source: S-1616615308 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1830 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Gr Note: APID: 1,8058::0 * Source: S-1616649987 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1840 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record G Note: APID: 1,8057::0 * Source: S-1616776432 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1860 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Note: APID: 1,7667::0 * Source: S-1616776448 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Note: APID: 1,8054::0 * Source: S-1636241691 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Web: Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1607-2011 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 29 January 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi Note: APID: 1,70635::0 * Source: S-1846132817 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1880 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited Note: APID: 1,6742::0 * Source: S-2091353993 Repository: [[#R-2142460163]] Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;; Note: Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). * Repository: R-2142460163 Name: www.ancestry.com

=== Acknowledgments ===
Thank you to [[Stiles-1327 | Robert Stiles]] for creating WikiTree profile Oakes-346 through the import of 2013-07-01.ged on Jul 1, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Robert and others.

-- MERGED NOTE ------------

}

== Biography ==
''This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.''

=== Name ===: Name: Joab /Oakes/ Jr.Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005Source: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810Source: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979Source: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039

=== Birth ===
: Birth:
:: Date: 1 Oct 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, VASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 1 Oct 1801

=== Death ===
: Death:
:: Date: 2 Oct 1863:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863
:: Place: Museville, VA
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 2 Oct 1863Array

=== Military Service ===
: Military Service: :: Place: Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039
: Military Service:
:: Date: 10 Mar 1862:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979

=== Residence ===
: Residence: :: Place: USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaConsort EnglandSource: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432
: Residence:
:: Date: 1840:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085

=== Burial ===
: Burial: :: Place: Museville,Pittsylvania,VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=19304922&pid=1085

=== Note ===
: Note: Joab lived in Pittsylvania Co., VA.
:: :: (from the Quill Pen, Genealogical Periodical from VA, #16, February, 1986, pp. 3-6
::
:: "Miss Effie" is Fondly Remembered by Robert C. Vaden Jr. 1974)
:: :: More than 100 years before the community that is now Museville became a post office, the land in the immediate vicinity had been settled by members of the Kirby family, 1746-48.
:: :: John, Francis and William Kirby held separate grants totaling some 1,000 acres near the junction of Snow Creek and Pigg River. The original inhabitants, of course, were Indians, and legend has it that a Kirby girl was scalped at the footbridge over Snow Creek. The original Kirby homestead, on a high bluff nearby, overlooked the site of tragedy.
:: :: Guided by the owner of this property, Mr. Algie Davis, I stood on the picturesque site of this early settlement. Nothing of it remains but a level expanse of ground, and back of it a cemetery of some 50 graves marked only by field stones.
:: :: When Moses Kirby built what is now the oldest standing residence in the community, about 1817, he is said to have removed portions of the original dwelling to the present site on the banks of Snow Creek below.
:: :: This house has been meticulously restored by Mr. Davis, who inherited the property from his father Lee (Babe) Davis who, in turn, had bought if from a member of the Oakes family in 1905.
:: :: Elizabeth Hudson Kirby (1805-74) was a sister of the builder, Moses Kirby, and it was her dower when she married Joab Oakes (1801-65), thereby uniting these two founding families.
:: :: The Kirby house is most interesting, one-and-a-half stories in three sections. The center section is a bit higher than the other two, giving a simple and appealing balance to the exterior view. The lofty paneled mantel in the central room, the wainscoting, the original H&L hinges on doors, the narrow but high windows speak of years gone by.
:: :: Mr. Davis said the house was built in the cove rather than on the hill because the lower location afforded easier access to the wagon loads of tobacco being brought in to nearby barns. Thus the empty wagons were went back up the hill.
:: :: This early tobacco was cured with charcoal, and the sites of these charcoal pits still may be seen where the chestnut wood was turned.
:: :: This and other neighborhood settlements witnessed some of the industries connected with the culture of tobacco. Such a one, at Woodpecker Level in Franklin County, was the beginning of the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company.
:: :: Museville was the location of a tannery, where cowhides were processed for the manufacture of shoes. A by-product of this operation, cow hair, also was used in making plaster.
:: :: The tobacco factory for making plug tobacco, owned an operation by Christopher Lawson Carter (1834-1901), was the principal industry of the community. Mr. Davis recalled that there had been a racetrack "beyond Piney Mountain" owned by Owen Adkins before the Civil War. He said that plug tobacco was hauled to Pennsylvania from this area, and the wagons returned loaded with salt. The Davis family has been located here since 1790, and Col. Christopher Davis, great-uncle of Mr. Davis, was in the Civil War.
:: :: Museville was a post office from 1857 onward (Va. Magazine of History & Biography). Before the name of Museville was used, the post office was called Oak Shop (1851-57). This name may have originated from the prominent Oakes family.
::
:: The name Museville obviously was adapted from the Muse family name.
:: :: Guides for this tour, Miss Carter and Mrs. Minter, pointed out the old sites during a drive through the village of Museville. Here was the old field school taught by Miss Effie Carter, who later moved to Gretna with her sisters Miss Ida and Mrs. J.S Adams.
:: :: "Miss Effie" left an indelible and endearing memory with many hundreds there and in Gretna, where she taught many years. And there was the site of the tobacco plug factory of Christopher Lawson Carter, their father, and grandfather.
:: :: Carter owned much property here and in the Penhook area. It was said that when almost any parcel of land in the area was mentioned "he owned it, had owned it or would own it." He was a successful merchant, manufacturer and real estate operator. A son of Jesse Carter of "Oakland" near Chatham, he was a cousin of the Carters of "Shirley" on the James and of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He married Dorothy Starn Muse in 1862.
:: :: Museville is a picturesque location indeed. Located on a plateau, it affords an unimpeded view of Turkey Cock Mountain and other foothills of the Blue Ridge. Especially impressive as one drives across Pigg River are the giant rock foundations of the now-vanished covered bridge.
:: :: At the village crossroads are two vacant old store buildings, the Smith and the Davis stores. Also within view are two historical residences known as the Joab Oakes (now the Clark Hodges) houses, and the John Smith house. Also in the area is the Museville Christian Church with its historic cemetery.
:: :: Joab Oakes? seven sons fought with the Confederate Army. Mrs. Doris Oakes Minter, who furnished the information on the Oakes family, is a descendant of Joab and Elizabeth Kirby Oakes. The many descendants of this pioneer couple erected handsome monuments to them in the Museville churchyard.
:: :: Mrs. Clark A. Hodges Sr., present owner of the Joab Oakes house, showed the charming interior of this impressive L-shaped two-story house. It is an interesting showplace of early nineteenth century Americana with its marbleized mantels and woodwork and staircase.
:: :: The kitchen, in particular, takes one back many years with its spaciousness and old fashioned accessories. This home has been the lifelong home of three families -- the Oakes who built it, the Washington Hedrick family which came here from Pennsylvania and bought it, and the Hodges family which acquired it through Mrs. Hodges, who was Louise Hedrick, daughter of the pioneer from the Keystone State.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges recalled that the Hedricks had first settled in Pennsylvania from Germany and the name had been originally Von Hedric. The old Hedrick Bible now is in a historical museum in that state, having been brought over by the family from the church in Germany.
:: :: Washington Hedrick donated the land for the local church, which originally was shared by both the Episcopal and Disciples of Christ denominations.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges pointed out the office at her residence where the late Dr. O.L. Ramsey (1874-1953), beloved physician of Gretna, began the practice of his profession. The Ramsey family was settled near Museville prior to the Revolutionary War (memoir of A.F. Ramsey), the original settler being Thomas F. Ramsey, who came here from Pennsylvania.
:: :: Dr. Ramsey?S father was Col. William Ramsey of the C.S.A. Dr. R. T. Ramsey, another Gretna physician, also was a descendant of Thomas Ramsey, as was Rev. A.F. Ramsey. The old Ramsey home is a few miles from Museville on Tomahawk Creek.
:: :: Connected with the Ramsey and Mahan families are the many descendants of Harmon Cook. He was a colonizer who settled thousands of acres on Tomahawk Creek and Pigg River toward the end of the 19th century. The settlers which followed him used the well-traveled route from Pennsylvania down the Shenandoah Valley.
:: :: One of the settlers brought in with Harmon Cook was Capt. Abram Rorer, ancestor of many area residents, including the Rorer James family of newspaper publishers in Danville.
:: :: The John Smith house at Museville, now unoccupied but owned by Mrs. Rob Reynolds, who was Smith?s daughter, is quite impressive from the outside. It is a lofty two stories with old looking windows. Smith, a prominent merchant, bought the house in the 1890?s.
:: :: In years past Museville was a center of many activities. there were bicycle races, bowling matches, country dances, a saloon, horse races and, of course, a magistrate holding court. One such busy magistrate was "Squire" Davis.
:: :: (Museville is located in NW Pittsylvania County a scant two miles from the Franklin County Line. It is south of Route 40 some four miles, and south of Pigg River.)

=== Object ===
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=68c3b71e-e192-4191-98e4-2e23bfbcc52d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm:: Title: Per NPS.ORG, Joab Oakes was a confederate soldier; 21st regiment, Virginia Infantry
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=e4ac9789-9dfb-4544-86bd-33a716e90b0b&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: Elizabeth Kirby tombstone
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=6a545b5d-d16d-435b-a18b-3662fbb3429e&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes008
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=828da821-a97b-4f4e-b0d6-80881aba7346&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes009
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=f50fd13e-e95c-42e3-81c0-b92bfc8215cf&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes002
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=b39c0511-9c7a-4f78-b9c9-ccb8bc66bdf8&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes004
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=4555f165-7d11-40fb-a99e-fa850478467d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm
:: Title: Joab Oakes Sr

=== Marriage ===

: Husband: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Kirby-1124|Elizabeth Hudson Kirby]]
: Child: [[Oakes-325|Sarah D Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-316|Nathaniel Kirby Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-342|Moses Kirby Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-332|Daniel Webster Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-344|Samuel W Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-336|Eliza Catherine Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-322|Cynthia M Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-340|Martha W. Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-300|Susan Missouri Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-337|Joab Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-341|Mary Kate Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-345|William Preston Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-343|Ruth S Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-306|Keron Thankful Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-339|Kizzier Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-338|John W. Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Marriage:
:: Date: 2 Nov 1822:: Place: Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810

: Husband: [[Oakes-351|William Old Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Smith-47106|Ruth Smith]]
: Child: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-423|George Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-477|Sabra A Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-403|Catherine Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: [[Oakes-411|Daniel Warner Oakes]]
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Child: @P1269@
:: Relationship to Father: Natural
:: Relationship to Mother: Natural
: Marriage: :: Date: 1813Source: [[#S-1592449165]] Page: Source number: 1590.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RDP APID: 1,7836::902397
: Marriage:
:: Date: 30 Aug 1801:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592449616]] APID: 1,3723::162557

== Sources ==
* Source: S-1592449165 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. APID: 1,7836::0 * Repository: R-2142460164 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com* Source: S-1592449616 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1592483958 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 Publication: National Park Service. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. APID: 1,1138::0 * Source: S-1592483990 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles Publication: Historical Data Systems, comp.. U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. APID: 1,1555::0 * Source: S-1592484040 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1616615076 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1, Note: APID: 1,8055::0 * Source: S-1616615308 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1830 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Gr Note: APID: 1,8058::0 * Source: S-1616649987 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1840 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record G Note: APID: 1,8057::0 * Source: S-1616776432 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1860 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Note: APID: 1,7667::0 * Source: S-1616776448 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Note: APID: 1,8054::0 * Source: S-1636241691 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Web: Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1607-2011 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 29 January 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi Note: APID: 1,70635::0 * Source: S-1846132817 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1880 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited Note: APID: 1,6742::0 * Source: S-2091353993 Repository: [[#R-2142460163]] Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;; Note: Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). * Repository: R-2142460163 Name: www.ancestry.com

=== Acknowledgments ===
Thank you to [[Stiles-1327 | Robert Stiles]] for creating WikiTree profile Oakes-346 through the import of 2013-07-01.ged on Jul 1, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Robert and others.

-- MERGED NOTE ------------

farmer

Joab married Elizabeth (Kirby) on November 2, 1822, in Chatham, Virginia.
Their 16 children:
Sarah Davis, Nathaniel Kirby, Moses Kirby, Daniel Webster, Eliza Catherine, Cintha, George W., Martha, Susan Missouri, Mary Ann Wilmoth, Joab, Jr., William Preston, Ruth S., Keziah, Keron Thankful, John Oakes

1850 census; Pittsylvania Co, VA
Joab Oaks, 45, farmer, value of real estate owned $3,355, b. 1805 VA
Elizabeth Oaks, 38, b. 1812 VA
Nathaniel, 25, laborer, b. 1825 VA
Moses, 22, laborer, b. 1828 VA
Daniel, 21, laborer, b. 1829 VA
Eliza, 18, b. 1832 VA
Cintha, 17, 1833 VA
George, 15, b. 1835 VA
Martha, 13, b. 1837 VA
Susan, 11, b. 1839 VA
Mary, 8, b. 1842 VA
Joab, 6, b. 1844 VA
William, 4, b. 1846 VA
Ruth, 2, b. 1848 VA
Kesiah, 1/12 (1 month), b. 1850 VA
Keron, 1/12 (1 month), b. 1850 VA
Nancy Oaks, 21 (wife of Moses Oaks)
*daughter, Sarah D. Oaks, is not named in the 1850 census because she had married Henry Addison Jefferson on 08/31/1848 & had her own household
**last child, John Oaks, isn't listed in 1850 census because he wasn't born until 1852 in Pittsylvania Co, VA

Wash Hedrick's purchased the Joab Oakes house & all the surrounding farmland from one of the Oakes children in the late 1870's. He donated the land the Museville Christian Church & cemetery are located on. After the death of Wash & Emma Hedrick, the property went to their daughter, Louise (Hedrick) Hodges. Her granddaughter now lives in the house.
*Information provided in 2011 by Hank Rogers, a relative of Wash Hedrick (bio by: Cheri)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9560191
----

-- MERGED NOTE ------------

[[Category: 46th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, United States Civil War]]
== Biography ==
}

''This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.''

=== Name ===: Name: Joab /Oakes/ Jr.Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/familySource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/familySource: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005Source: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810Source: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979Source: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039

=== Birth ===
: Birth:
:: Date: 1 Oct 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/familySource: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, VASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Birth:
:: Date: 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 1 Oct 1801

=== Death ===
: Death:
:: Date: 2 Oct 1863:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/familySource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/familySource: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863
:: Place: Museville, VA
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 2 Oct 1863Array

=== Military Service ===
: Military Service: :: Place: Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039
: Military Service:
:: Date: 10 Mar 1862:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979

=== Residence ===
: Residence: :: Place: USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaConsort EnglandSource: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432
: Residence:
:: Date: 1840:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/familySource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family

=== Burial ===
: Burial: :: Place: Museville,Pittsylvania,VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family

=== Note ===
: Note: Joab lived in Pittsylvania Co., VA.
:: :: (from the Quill Pen, Genealogical Periodical from VA, #16, February, 1986, pp. 3-6
::
:: "Miss Effie" is Fondly Remembered by Robert C. Vaden Jr. 1974)
:: :: More than 100 years before the community that is now Museville became a post office, the land in the immediate vicinity had been settled by members of the Kirby family, 1746-48.
:: :: John, Francis and William Kirby held separate grants totaling some 1,000 acres near the junction of Snow Creek and Pigg River. The original inhabitants, of course, were Indians, and legend has it that a Kirby girl was scalped at the footbridge over Snow Creek. The original Kirby homestead, on a high bluff nearby, overlooked the site of tragedy.
:: :: Guided by the owner of this property, Mr. Algie Davis, I stood on the picturesque site of this early settlement. Nothing of it remains but a level expanse of ground, and back of it a cemetery of some 50 graves marked only by field stones.
:: :: When Moses Kirby built what is now the oldest standing residence in the community, about 1817, he is said to have removed portions of the original dwelling to the present site on the banks of Snow Creek below.
:: :: This house has been meticulously restored by Mr. Davis, who inherited the property from his father Lee (Babe) Davis who, in turn, had bought if from a member of the Oakes family in 1905.
:: :: Elizabeth Hudson Kirby (1805-74) was a sister of the builder, Moses Kirby, and it was her dower when she married Joab Oakes (1801-65), thereby uniting these two founding families.
:: :: The Kirby house is most interesting, one-and-a-half stories in three sections. The center section is a bit higher than the other two, giving a simple and appealing balance to the exterior view. The lofty paneled mantel in the central room, the wainscoting, the original H&L hinges on doors, the narrow but high windows speak of years gone by.
:: :: Mr. Davis said the house was built in the cove rather than on the hill because the lower location afforded easier access to the wagon loads of tobacco being brought in to nearby barns. Thus the empty wagons were went back up the hill.
:: :: This early tobacco was cured with charcoal, and the sites of these charcoal pits still may be seen where the chestnut wood was turned.
:: :: This and other neighborhood settlements witnessed some of the industries connected with the culture of tobacco. Such a one, at Woodpecker Level in Franklin County, was the beginning of the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company.
:: :: Museville was the location of a tannery, where cowhides were processed for the manufacture of shoes. A by-product of this operation, cow hair, also was used in making plaster.
:: :: The tobacco factory for making plug tobacco, owned an operation by Christopher Lawson Carter (1834-1901), was the principal industry of the community. Mr. Davis recalled that there had been a racetrack "beyond Piney Mountain" owned by Owen Adkins before the Civil War. He said that plug tobacco was hauled to Pennsylvania from this area, and the wagons returned loaded with salt. The Davis family has been located here since 1790, and Col. Christopher Davis, great-uncle of Mr. Davis, was in the Civil War.
:: :: Museville was a post office from 1857 onward (Va. Magazine of History & Biography). Before the name of Museville was used, the post office was called Oak Shop (1851-57). This name may have originated from the prominent Oakes family.
::
:: The name Museville obviously was adapted from the Muse family name.
:: :: Guides for this tour, Miss Carter and Mrs. Minter, pointed out the old sites during a drive through the village of Museville. Here was the old field school taught by Miss Effie Carter, who later moved to Gretna with her sisters Miss Ida and Mrs. J.S Adams.
:: :: "Miss Effie" left an indelible and endearing memory with many hundreds there and in Gretna, where she taught many years. And there was the site of the tobacco plug factory of Christopher Lawson Carter, their father, and grandfather.
:: :: Carter owned much property here and in the Penhook area. It was said that when almost any parcel of land in the area was mentioned "he owned it, had owned it or would own it." He was a successful merchant, manufacturer and real estate operator. A son of Jesse Carter of "Oakland" near Chatham, he was a cousin of the Carters of "Shirley" on the James and of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He married Dorothy Starn Muse in 1862.
:: :: Museville is a picturesque location indeed. Located on a plateau, it affords an unimpeded view of Turkey Cock Mountain and other foothills of the Blue Ridge. Especially impressive as one drives across Pigg River are the giant rock foundations of the now-vanished covered bridge.
:: :: At the village crossroads are two vacant old store buildings, the Smith and the Davis stores. Also within view are two historical residences known as the Joab Oakes (now the Clark Hodges) houses, and the John Smith house. Also in the area is the Museville Christian Church with its historic cemetery.
:: :: Joab Oakes? seven sons fought with the Confederate Army. Mrs. Doris Oakes Minter, who furnished the information on the Oakes family, is a descendant of Joab and Elizabeth Kirby Oakes. The many descendants of this pioneer couple erected handsome monuments to them in the Museville churchyard.
:: :: Mrs. Clark A. Hodges Sr., present owner of the Joab Oakes house, showed the charming interior of this impressive L-shaped two-story house. It is an interesting showplace of early nineteenth century Americana with its marbleized mantels and woodwork and staircase.
:: :: The kitchen, in particular, takes one back many years with its spaciousness and old fashioned accessories. This home has been the lifelong home of three families -- the Oakes who built it, the Washington Hedrick family which came here from Pennsylvania and bought it, and the Hodges family which acquired it through Mrs. Hodges, who was Louise Hedrick, daughter of the pioneer from the Keystone State.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges recalled that the Hedricks had first settled in Pennsylvania from Germany and the name had been originally Von Hedric. The old Hedrick Bible now is in a historical museum in that state, having been brought over by the family from the church in Germany.
:: :: Washington Hedrick donated the land for the local church, which originally was shared by both the Episcopal and Disciples of Christ denominations.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges pointed out the office at her residence where the late Dr. O.L. Ramsey (1874-1953), beloved physician of Gretna, began the practice of his profession. The Ramsey family was settled near Museville prior to the Revolutionary War (memoir of A.F. Ramsey), the original settler being Thomas F. Ramsey, who came here from Pennsylvania.
:: :: Dr. Ramsey?S father was Col. William Ramsey of the C.S.A. Dr. R. T. Ramsey, another Gretna physician, also was a descendant of Thomas Ramsey, as was Rev. A.F. Ramsey. The old Ramsey home is a few miles from Museville on Tomahawk Creek.
:: :: Connected with the Ramsey and Mahan families are the many descendants of Harmon Cook. He was a colonizer who settled thousands of acres on Tomahawk Creek and Pigg River toward the end of the 19th century. The settlers which followed him used the well-traveled route from Pennsylvania down the Shenandoah Valley.
:: :: One of the settlers brought in with Harmon Cook was Capt. Abram Rorer, ancestor of many area residents, including the Rorer James family of newspaper publishers in Danville.
:: :: The John Smith house at Museville, now unoccupied but owned by Mrs. Rob Reynolds, who was Smith?s daughter, is quite impressive from the outside. It is a lofty two stories with old looking windows. Smith, a prominent merchant, bought the house in the 1890?s.
:: :: In years past Museville was a center of many activities. there were bicycle races, bowling matches, country dances, a saloon, horse races and, of course, a magistrate holding court. One such busy magistrate was "Squire" Davis.
:: :: (Museville is located in NW Pittsylvania County a scant two miles from the Franklin County Line. It is south of Route 40 some four miles, and south of Pigg River.)

=== Object ===
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=68c3b71e-e192-4191-98e4-2e23bfbcc52d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm:: Title: Per NPS.ORG, Joab Oakes was a confederate soldier; 21st regiment, Virginia Infantry
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=e4ac9789-9dfb-4544-86bd-33a716e90b0b&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: Elizabeth Kirby tombstone
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=6a545b5d-d16d-435b-a18b-3662fbb3429e&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes008
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=828da821-a97b-4f4e-b0d6-80881aba7346&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes009
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=f50fd13e-e95c-42e3-81c0-b92bfc8215cf&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes002
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=b39c0511-9c7a-4f78-b9c9-ccb8bc66bdf8&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes004
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=4555f165-7d11-40fb-a99e-fa850478467d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm
:: Title: Joab Oakes Sr

=== Marriage ===

: Husband: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Kirby-1124|Elizabeth Hudson Kirby]]
: Child: [[Oakes-325|Sarah D Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-316|Nathaniel Kirby Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-342|Moses Kirby Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-332|Daniel Webster Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-344|Samuel W Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-336|Eliza Catherine Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-322|Cynthia M Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-340|Martha W. Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-300|Susan Missouri Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-337|Joab Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-341|Mary Kate Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-345|William Preston Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-343|Ruth S Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-306|Keron Thankful Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-339|Kizzier Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-338|John W. Oakes]]
: Marriage:
:: Date: 2 Nov 1822:: Place: Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810

: Husband: [[Oakes-351|William Old Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Smith-47106|Ruth Smith]]
: Child: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-423|George Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-477|Sabra A Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-403|Catherine Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-411|Daniel Warner Oakes]]
: Child: @P1269@
: Marriage: :: Date: 1813Source: [[#S-1592449165]] Page: Source number: 1590.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RDP APID: 1,7836::902397
: Marriage:
:: Date: 30 Aug 1801:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592449616]] APID: 1,3723::162557

* Fact: Residence (1830) Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States* Fact: Residence (1840) Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States* Fact: Residence (1850) Pittsylvania county, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States* Fact: Residence (1860) North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaConsort England
* Fact: Military Service (10 March 1862) Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
* Fact: Burial Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
* Fact: Ref # 6020018
* Fact: Ref # 6201094

== Sources ==

* "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 28 September 2018, 00:56), entry for Joab Oakes(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:278B-4V8); contributed by various users.* Source: S-1592449165 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. APID: 1,7836::0 * Repository: R-2142460164 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com* Source: S-1592449616 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1592483958 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 Publication: National Park Service. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. APID: 1,1138::0 * Source: S-1592483990 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles Publication: Historical Data Systems, comp.. U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. APID: 1,1555::0 * Source: S-1592484040 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1616615076 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1, Note: APID: 1,8055::0 * Source: S-1616615308 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1830 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Gr Note: APID: 1,8058::0 * Source: S-1616649987 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1840 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record G Note: APID: 1,8057::0 * Source: S-1616776432 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1860 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Note: APID: 1,7667::0 * Source: S-1616776448 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Note: APID: 1,8054::0 * Source: S-1636241691 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Web: Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1607-2011 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 29 January 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi Note: APID: 1,70635::0 * Source: S-1846132817 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1880 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited Note: APID: 1,6742::0 * Source: S-2091353993 Repository: [[#R-2142460163]] Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;; Note: Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). * Repository: R-2142460163 Name: www.ancestry.com

== Acknowledgments ==
Thank you to [[Stiles-1327 | Robert Stiles]] for creating WikiTree profile Oakes-346 through the import of 2013-07-01.ged on Jul 1, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Robert and others.

-- MERGED NOTE ------------

[[Category: 46th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, United States Civil War]]
== Biography ==
}

''This biography was auto-generated by a GEDCOM import. It's a rough draft and needs to be edited.''

=== Name ===: Name: Joab /Oakes/ Jr.Source: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/familySource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/familySource: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005Source: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810Source: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979Source: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039

=== Birth ===
: Birth:
:: Date: 1 Oct 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/familySource: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850Source: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432Source: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476Source: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179Source: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, VASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Birth:
:: Date: 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Birth:
:: Date: OCT 1801:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United StatesSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
Found multiple copies of BIRT DATE. Using 1 Oct 1801

=== Death ===
: Death:
:: Date: 2 Oct 1863:: Place: Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/familySource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/familySource: [[#S-1636241691]] Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=websearch-4119&h=119005&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: Oct 1801 Birth place: Death date: 2 Oct 1865 Death place: APID: 1,70635::119005
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863
:: Place: Museville, VA
: Death:
:: Date: 02 OCT 1863:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
Found multiple copies of DEAT DATE. Using 2 Oct 1863Array

=== Military Service ===
: Military Service: :: Place: Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483958]] APID: 1,1138::5232039
: Military Service:
:: Date: 10 Mar 1862:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979

=== Residence ===
: Residence: :: Place: USASource: [[#S-1592483990]] APID: 1,1555::1398979
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616776448]] Page: Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=15440179&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1805 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8054::15440179
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616615308]] Page: Year: 1830; Census Place: , Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1830usfedcenancestry&h=954932&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1830 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8058::954932
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-1616615076]] Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850slaveschedules&h=2933476&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 1813 Birth place: Residence date: 1850 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia APID: 1,8055::2933476
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaConsort EnglandSource: [[#S-1616776432]] Page: Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: 179; Image: 185. Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1860usfedcenancestry&h=34643432&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1804 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1860 Residence place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,7667::34643432
: Residence:
:: Date: 1840:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1616649987]] Page: Year: 1840; Census Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: ; Page: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1840usfedcenancestry&h=1912408&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: 1840 Residence place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,8057::1912408
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1846132817]] Page: Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176; Image: . Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=19078850&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Birth date: abt 1802 Birth place: Virginia Residence date: 1880 Residence place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States APID: 1,6742::19078850
: Residence:
:: Date: 1860:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/familySource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1830:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 01 JUN 1840:: Place: Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1850:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family
: Residence:
:: Date: 1880:: Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for William Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family

=== Burial ===
: Burial: :: Place: Museville,Pittsylvania,VirginiaSource: [[#S-2091353993]] Page: Database online. Data: Text: Record for Joab Oakes https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/19304922/family

=== Note ===
: Note: Joab lived in Pittsylvania Co., VA.
:: :: (from the Quill Pen, Genealogical Periodical from VA, #16, February, 1986, pp. 3-6
::
:: "Miss Effie" is Fondly Remembered by Robert C. Vaden Jr. 1974)
:: :: More than 100 years before the community that is now Museville became a post office, the land in the immediate vicinity had been settled by members of the Kirby family, 1746-48.
:: :: John, Francis and William Kirby held separate grants totaling some 1,000 acres near the junction of Snow Creek and Pigg River. The original inhabitants, of course, were Indians, and legend has it that a Kirby girl was scalped at the footbridge over Snow Creek. The original Kirby homestead, on a high bluff nearby, overlooked the site of tragedy.
:: :: Guided by the owner of this property, Mr. Algie Davis, I stood on the picturesque site of this early settlement. Nothing of it remains but a level expanse of ground, and back of it a cemetery of some 50 graves marked only by field stones.
:: :: When Moses Kirby built what is now the oldest standing residence in the community, about 1817, he is said to have removed portions of the original dwelling to the present site on the banks of Snow Creek below.
:: :: This house has been meticulously restored by Mr. Davis, who inherited the property from his father Lee (Babe) Davis who, in turn, had bought if from a member of the Oakes family in 1905.
:: :: Elizabeth Hudson Kirby (1805-74) was a sister of the builder, Moses Kirby, and it was her dower when she married Joab Oakes (1801-65), thereby uniting these two founding families.
:: :: The Kirby house is most interesting, one-and-a-half stories in three sections. The center section is a bit higher than the other two, giving a simple and appealing balance to the exterior view. The lofty paneled mantel in the central room, the wainscoting, the original H&L hinges on doors, the narrow but high windows speak of years gone by.
:: :: Mr. Davis said the house was built in the cove rather than on the hill because the lower location afforded easier access to the wagon loads of tobacco being brought in to nearby barns. Thus the empty wagons were went back up the hill.
:: :: This early tobacco was cured with charcoal, and the sites of these charcoal pits still may be seen where the chestnut wood was turned.
:: :: This and other neighborhood settlements witnessed some of the industries connected with the culture of tobacco. Such a one, at Woodpecker Level in Franklin County, was the beginning of the Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company.
:: :: Museville was the location of a tannery, where cowhides were processed for the manufacture of shoes. A by-product of this operation, cow hair, also was used in making plaster.
:: :: The tobacco factory for making plug tobacco, owned an operation by Christopher Lawson Carter (1834-1901), was the principal industry of the community. Mr. Davis recalled that there had been a racetrack "beyond Piney Mountain" owned by Owen Adkins before the Civil War. He said that plug tobacco was hauled to Pennsylvania from this area, and the wagons returned loaded with salt. The Davis family has been located here since 1790, and Col. Christopher Davis, great-uncle of Mr. Davis, was in the Civil War.
:: :: Museville was a post office from 1857 onward (Va. Magazine of History & Biography). Before the name of Museville was used, the post office was called Oak Shop (1851-57). This name may have originated from the prominent Oakes family.
::
:: The name Museville obviously was adapted from the Muse family name.
:: :: Guides for this tour, Miss Carter and Mrs. Minter, pointed out the old sites during a drive through the village of Museville. Here was the old field school taught by Miss Effie Carter, who later moved to Gretna with her sisters Miss Ida and Mrs. J.S Adams.
:: :: "Miss Effie" left an indelible and endearing memory with many hundreds there and in Gretna, where she taught many years. And there was the site of the tobacco plug factory of Christopher Lawson Carter, their father, and grandfather.
:: :: Carter owned much property here and in the Penhook area. It was said that when almost any parcel of land in the area was mentioned "he owned it, had owned it or would own it." He was a successful merchant, manufacturer and real estate operator. A son of Jesse Carter of "Oakland" near Chatham, he was a cousin of the Carters of "Shirley" on the James and of Gen. Robert E. Lee. He married Dorothy Starn Muse in 1862.
:: :: Museville is a picturesque location indeed. Located on a plateau, it affords an unimpeded view of Turkey Cock Mountain and other foothills of the Blue Ridge. Especially impressive as one drives across Pigg River are the giant rock foundations of the now-vanished covered bridge.
:: :: At the village crossroads are two vacant old store buildings, the Smith and the Davis stores. Also within view are two historical residences known as the Joab Oakes (now the Clark Hodges) houses, and the John Smith house. Also in the area is the Museville Christian Church with its historic cemetery.
:: :: Joab Oakes? seven sons fought with the Confederate Army. Mrs. Doris Oakes Minter, who furnished the information on the Oakes family, is a descendant of Joab and Elizabeth Kirby Oakes. The many descendants of this pioneer couple erected handsome monuments to them in the Museville churchyard.
:: :: Mrs. Clark A. Hodges Sr., present owner of the Joab Oakes house, showed the charming interior of this impressive L-shaped two-story house. It is an interesting showplace of early nineteenth century Americana with its marbleized mantels and woodwork and staircase.
:: :: The kitchen, in particular, takes one back many years with its spaciousness and old fashioned accessories. This home has been the lifelong home of three families -- the Oakes who built it, the Washington Hedrick family which came here from Pennsylvania and bought it, and the Hodges family which acquired it through Mrs. Hodges, who was Louise Hedrick, daughter of the pioneer from the Keystone State.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges recalled that the Hedricks had first settled in Pennsylvania from Germany and the name had been originally Von Hedric. The old Hedrick Bible now is in a historical museum in that state, having been brought over by the family from the church in Germany.
:: :: Washington Hedrick donated the land for the local church, which originally was shared by both the Episcopal and Disciples of Christ denominations.
:: :: Mrs. Hodges pointed out the office at her residence where the late Dr. O.L. Ramsey (1874-1953), beloved physician of Gretna, began the practice of his profession. The Ramsey family was settled near Museville prior to the Revolutionary War (memoir of A.F. Ramsey), the original settler being Thomas F. Ramsey, who came here from Pennsylvania.
:: :: Dr. Ramsey?S father was Col. William Ramsey of the C.S.A. Dr. R. T. Ramsey, another Gretna physician, also was a descendant of Thomas Ramsey, as was Rev. A.F. Ramsey. The old Ramsey home is a few miles from Museville on Tomahawk Creek.
:: :: Connected with the Ramsey and Mahan families are the many descendants of Harmon Cook. He was a colonizer who settled thousands of acres on Tomahawk Creek and Pigg River toward the end of the 19th century. The settlers which followed him used the well-traveled route from Pennsylvania down the Shenandoah Valley.
:: :: One of the settlers brought in with Harmon Cook was Capt. Abram Rorer, ancestor of many area residents, including the Rorer James family of newspaper publishers in Danville.
:: :: The John Smith house at Museville, now unoccupied but owned by Mrs. Rob Reynolds, who was Smith?s daughter, is quite impressive from the outside. It is a lofty two stories with old looking windows. Smith, a prominent merchant, bought the house in the 1890?s.
:: :: In years past Museville was a center of many activities. there were bicycle races, bowling matches, country dances, a saloon, horse races and, of course, a magistrate holding court. One such busy magistrate was "Squire" Davis.
:: :: (Museville is located in NW Pittsylvania County a scant two miles from the Franklin County Line. It is south of Route 40 some four miles, and south of Pigg River.)

=== Object ===
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=68c3b71e-e192-4191-98e4-2e23bfbcc52d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm:: Title: Per NPS.ORG, Joab Oakes was a confederate soldier; 21st regiment, Virginia Infantry
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=e4ac9789-9dfb-4544-86bd-33a716e90b0b&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: Elizabeth Kirby tombstone
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=6a545b5d-d16d-435b-a18b-3662fbb3429e&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes008
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=828da821-a97b-4f4e-b0d6-80881aba7346&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes009
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=f50fd13e-e95c-42e3-81c0-b92bfc8215cf&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes002
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=b39c0511-9c7a-4f78-b9c9-ccb8bc66bdf8&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: jpg
:: Title: jaob oakes004
: Object: :: File: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=document&guid=4555f165-7d11-40fb-a99e-fa850478467d&tid=28139944&pid=993
:: Format: htm
:: Title: Joab Oakes Sr

=== Marriage ===

: Husband: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Kirby-1124|Elizabeth Hudson Kirby]]
: Child: [[Oakes-325|Sarah D Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-316|Nathaniel Kirby Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-342|Moses Kirby Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-332|Daniel Webster Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-344|Samuel W Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-336|Eliza Catherine Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-322|Cynthia M Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-340|Martha W. Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-300|Susan Missouri Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-337|Joab Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-341|Mary Kate Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-345|William Preston Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-343|Ruth S Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-306|Keron Thankful Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-339|Kizzier Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-338|John W. Oakes]]
: Marriage:
:: Date: 2 Nov 1822:: Place: Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592484040]] APID: 1,3723::70810

: Husband: [[Oakes-351|William Old Oakes]]
: Wife: [[Smith-47106|Ruth Smith]]
: Child: [[Oakes-346|Joab Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-423|George Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-477|Sabra A Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-403|Catherine Oakes]]
: Child: [[Oakes-411|Daniel Warner Oakes]]
: Child: @P1269@
: Marriage: :: Date: 1813Source: [[#S-1592449165]] Page: Source number: 1590.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: RDP APID: 1,7836::902397
: Marriage:
:: Date: 30 Aug 1801:: Place: Pittsylvania, Virginia, USASource: [[#S-1592449616]] APID: 1,3723::162557

* Fact: Residence (1830) Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States* Fact: Residence (1840) Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States* Fact: Residence (1850) Pittsylvania county, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States* Fact: Residence (1860) North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaConsort England
* Fact: Military Service (10 March 1862) Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
* Fact: Burial Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
* Fact: Ref # 6020018
* Fact: Ref # 6201094

== Sources ==

* "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 28 September 2018, 00:56), entry for Joab Oakes(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:278B-4V8); contributed by various users.* Source: S-1592449165 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. APID: 1,7836::0 * Repository: R-2142460164 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com* Source: S-1592449616 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1592483958 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 Publication: National Park Service. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. APID: 1,1138::0 * Source: S-1592483990 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles Publication: Historical Data Systems, comp.. U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. APID: 1,1555::0 * Source: S-1592484040 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 Publication: Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999. APID: 1,3723::0 * Source: S-1616615076 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.Original data - United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Seventh Census of the United States, 1850. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1850. M432, 1, Note: APID: 1,8055::0 * Source: S-1616615308 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1830 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fifth Census of the United States, 1830. (NARA microfilm publication M19, 201 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Gr Note: APID: 1,8058::0 * Source: S-1616649987 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1840 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Sixth Census of the United States, 1840. (NARA microfilm publication M704, 580 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record G Note: APID: 1,8057::0 * Source: S-1616776432 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1860 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - 1860 U.S. census, population schedule. NARA microfilm publication M653, 1,438 rolls. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Note: APID: 1,7667::0 * Source: S-1616776448 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1850 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Seventh Census of the United States, 1850; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M432, 1009 rolls); Records of the Bureau of the Note: APID: 1,8054::0 * Source: S-1636241691 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: Web: Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1607-2011 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi: accessed 29 January 2012.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi Note: APID: 1,70635::0 * Source: S-1846132817 Repository: [[#R-2142460164]] Title: 1880 United States Federal Census Author: Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. 1880 U.S. Census Index provided by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints © Copyright 1999 Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. All use is subject to the limited Note: APID: 1,6742::0 * Source: S-2091353993 Repository: [[#R-2142460163]] Title: Public Member Trees Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;; Note: Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;). * Repository: R-2142460163 Name: www.ancestry.com

== Acknowledgments ==
Thank you to [[Stiles-1327 | Robert Stiles]] for creating WikiTree profile Oakes-346 through the import of 2013-07-01.ged on Jul 1, 2013. Click to the Changes page for the details of edits by Robert and others.

Events

Birth	1801	Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States
Birth	20 Jun 1801	Guilford County, North Carolina, United States of America
Birth	Oct 1801	Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States
Birth	Oct 1801	Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Birth	Oct 1801	Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States
Birth	Oct 1801	Museville, VA
Birth	Oct 1801
Birth	1 Oct 1801	Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Marriage	2 Nov 1822	Chatham, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA - Elizabeth Hudson Kirby
Marriage	2 Nov 1822	Elizabeth Hudson Kirby
Residence	1830	Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence	1830	Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence	1830	Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence	1840	Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence	1 Jun 1840	Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence	1 Jun 1840	Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence	1850	Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence	1850	Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
Residence	1850	Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence	1850	Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
Residence	1850	Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence	1850	Pittsylvania, Virginia
Residence	1850	Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence	1860	North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
Residence	1860	North District, Pittsylvania, VirginiaConsort England
Military	10 Mar 1862	Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Death	2 Oct 1863	Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Death	2 Oct 1863	Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Death	2 Oct 1863	Museville, VA
Death	2 Oct 1865	Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Death	2 Oct 1865
Residence	1880	Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence	1880	Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence	1880	Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Death	15 Aug 1884	Guilford County, North Carolina, United States of America
Alt name		John B. Oakes
Alt name		Joab Anderson Oakes Sr.
Burial		Museville, Pittsylvania, Virginia, USA
Residence		USA
Military		Virginia, USA
Residence		North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
Residence		North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia
Reference No		6020018
Reference No		6201094
Reference No		60
Burial

Families

Spouse	Elizabeth Hudson Kirby (1812 - 1874)
Child	Sarah Davis Oakes (1823 - 1900)
Child	Nathaniel Kirby Oakes (1825 - 1898)
Child	Moses Kirby Oakes (1828 - 1862)
Child	Daniel Webster Oakes (1829 - 1901)
Child	Samuel W Oakes (1830 - 1862)
Child	Eliza Catherine Oakes (1832 - 1933)
Child	Eliza Catherine Oakes (1832 - 1833)
Child	Cynthia M Oakes (1833 - 1870)
Child	George W Oakes (1835 - )
Child	Martha W. Oakes (1837 - 1837)
Child	Martha W Oakes (1837 - )
Child	Susan Missouri Oakes (1839 - 1938)
Child	Martha W. Oakes (1837 - 1837)
Child	Susan M Oakes (1839 - 1871)
Child	Mary Kate Oakes (1844 - 1872)
Child	Joab Anderson Oakes Jr (1844 - 1919)
Child	William Preston Oakes (1845 - 1914)
Child	Ruth S Oakes (1848 - 1850)
Child	Ruth S "Ruthie" Oakes (1848 - 1900)
Child	Kizzier Oakes (1850 - 1961)
Child	Keron Thankful Oakes (1850 - 1919)
Child	John W. Oakes (1851 - 1906)
Child	John K Oakes (1852 - 1932)

Father	William Old Oakes (1780 - 1846)
Mother	Ruth Smith (1779 - 1822)
Sibling	George W Oakes (1805 - )
Sibling	George Oakes (1805 - 1838)
Sibling	Sabra Jane Oakes (1808 - 1886)
Sibling	Catherine Oakes (1810 - )
Sibling	Catherine Oakes (1810 - 1839)
Sibling	Daniel Warner Oakes (1813 - 1892)
Sibling	Daniel Warner Oakes (1813 - 1892)
Sibling	William Burl Oakes (1816 - 1887)
Sibling	James Allen Oakes (1822 - 1863)

Endnotes

49. Ancestry.com, Web: Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1607-2012 (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).

50. Ancestry.com, U.S., Find A Grave Index, 1600s-Current (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012).

51. Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees (N.p.: Name: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;;, n.d.), Database online..

52. Ancestry.com, 1860 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Year: 1860; Census Place: North District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M653_1370; Page: 179; Family History Library Film: 805370.

53. Ancestry.com, 1850 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004).

54. Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1880 United States Federal Census (Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010), Year: 1880; Census Place: Tunstall, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: 1385; Family History Film: 1255385; Page: 387A; Enumeration District: 176.

55. Ancestry.com, 1850 United States Federal Census (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2009), Year: 1850; Census Place: Northern District, Pittsylvania, Virginia; Roll: M432_968; Page: 235A; Image: 472.

56. Find a Grave.

Find a Grave

57. "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QVVH-K291 : 13 December 2015), Joab Oakes, 1865; Burial, , Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States of America, Museville Christian Church; citing record ID 9560191, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com..

Joab Oakes, "Find A Grave Index"

58. "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MVDS-R6S : 4 August 2017), Joab Oakes, Pittsylvania county, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States; citing line number 6, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 444,982..

Joab Oakes, "United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850 "

59. "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XHBW-VV2 : 24 August 2015), Joab Oakes, Regiment 107, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States; citing p. 73, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 573; FHL microfilm 29,691..

Joab Oakes, "United States Census, 1840"

60. "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MHMH-S9K : 12 April 2016), Joab Oakes, 1860..

Joab Oakes, "United States Census, 1860"

61. "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XH5J-N7Z : 19 August 2017), Joab Oaks, Pittsylvania, Virginia, United States; citing 321, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 201; FHL microfilm 29,680..

Joab Oaks, "United States Census, 1830"