This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Oakes,Flowers, Sams, Gibbon,Behymer, Hawthorne Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JgB.2ACE/339.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi, glad to get your email! My John Oakes was born in 1776 in Goshen, PA in Chester county. Died in Richland co., PA. But who is to say that one of his grandchildren was not named after him........His oldest son was born in Franklin Green county, PA. and married in Highland co. OH in 1826 & died in Wayne county, Iowa in 1889. Youngest son was born in Wayne, Green co. PA, married in Highland co. OH and died in W. Junction, vinton, OH in 1900. Then Isaac Oakes the first one I listed above,[married Mary Sams in 1828 in OH, had a son named John Andrew, born 27 Jan 1829 in Green county, PA and married Charloote Batten on 5 Sept 1855 in Cinn. Highland co. OH. don't when or where he died. His 3rd child & 2nd son -Abraham was born 28 May 1831 in Green co. PA, married in 1854 in Higland co. OH to Cythia Ann Batten. Abraham died in Ottawa, Franklin co. Kansas in 1912. Next another son was born in same county, married in 1857 to American Keller and He died in 1900.9th child and 4th son was Isaac, jr born in 1845 in OH married in Wayne co. IA to Mary Parker in 1866 & died in Battle Hill twp, McPherson co. KS in 1895. 10th child and 5th son was my gfather's Father; Thomas born in 1845-46 in OH, married Rebecca Hawthorne in 1868 in Wayne co. Iowa and died in McPherson co. Kansas in 1921. The last son and # 11 was Joseph born in 1848 in OH died in 1849 in Ohio. Does any of this help? Would love to find more connections. I am about at a standstill on my lines ........... Hope to hear from you again. Carol