This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JU.2ADI/294.1 Message Board Post: The parents of James W. Oakes were Thomas Oakes and Nancy Watters Oakes. Thomas and Nancy had 3 children: John Collins Oakes (my great grandfather), James W. Oakes who married Sarah Richardson, and William M. Oakes who married Elizabeth Ann Edwards.