This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Oakes, McKnight, Frazier, Coile, Woodward, Thornburgh Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JgB.2ACE/339.1.1 Message Board Post: I do not recognize these names but want to ask where your Oakes family lived? I have Oakes family in Jefferson Co., TN and am at a dead end trying to find the parents of Jacob Oakes, born 1852 in Tennessee. He was orphaned and "bound out". Any information is appreciated.