Oak Oaks Oakes

Author : Henry Lebbeus Oak
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265293676
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Oak Oaks Oakes written by Henry Lebbeus Oak and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Oak Oaks Oakes: Family Register Nathaniel Oak of Marlborough, Mass;, And Three Generations of His Descendants in Both Male and Female Lines The undertaking of this work in 1891 was due to a realization of the fact - sad, though by no means new or peculiar - that the writer's own family was nearing extinction in its old home. In the quiet little adjoining New England towns of Garland and Exeter, Maine, where his great grandfather had died, as also his grandfather and great uncles and aunts, where their children had spent their lives; where he and others of his generation had been born - there were but five of the name surviving, all in old age. Soon the name would be found there only on tombstones. The younger generations were widely scattered; and in a few years, all knowledge of the old home and the relationship be tween the branches there originating would be lost. Inspired by this somewhat sentimental view of the matter, the writer determined to compile and if possible to print a small pamphlet record of the ancestors and descendants of his great grandfather, the only Oaks of whom our family had any knowledge. As he progressed with the work he not only became fascinated with it the usual experience of those who dabble in genealogy - but he came to realize that his branch of the family was only one of many; that Garland and Exeter were only one of many old homes whence the Oaks had been distributed - the same tender memories clustering about each of those centers as about ours. So the scope of the work was extended to include all descendants of our immigrant ancestor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.