Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: M2KY-MKW
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 104569147
• 1850 Census: 10 Aug 1850, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine

Notes:

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/M2KY-MKW

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104569147

1850 Census:
p. 184
Moses Rollins    62  M  Farmer  $600  Maine
Nancy     "         58  F                           "
Moses H  "        18  M  Farmer              "        school

Buried:
Æ 85y, 8m
Wife of Moses Rollins

Nancy married Moses Rollins on 9 Sep 1813. Moses (son of Samual Rollins and Elisabeth Tucker) was born about 1788 in Richmond, Lincoln County, Maine; died on 4 Nov 1873 in Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine; was buried after 4 Nov 1873 in Jackman Corner Cemetery, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: KL48-37R
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 104553590
• 1850 Census: 10 Aug 1850, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine
• 1860 Census: 18 Jun 1860, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine
• 1870 Census: 11 Jul 1870, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine
• 1880 Census: 14 Jun 1880, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine

Notes:

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KL48-37R

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104553590

1850 Census:
p. 184a
George H Lewis   39  M  Farmer   $1200   Maine
Olive M.      "       35  F                              "
George       "       10  M                             "      school
Nancy        "         7  F                              "          "
Franklin      "        4  M                              "          "
Susan        "        2   F                              "

1860 Census:
East Sangerfield PO, pp. 26-27
G, H. Lewis        51  M   Farmer     ----  ----   Maine
Olive M  "           45   F                                   "
George   "          21  M   Farmer                      "
Nancy E   "        17   F   C S Teacher              "
Frank       "        14   M  Farmer                      "      school
Susan E.  "        10   F                                   "          "
-----  p. 27 -----
Charles Lewis      8   M                               Maine
Willie      "           4   M                                   "

1870 Census:
Dover PO, p. 171
Lewis, George H.   68  M  W   Farmer  $3000  $6000   Maine    Citizen
---, Olive M.           56   F  W   Keeping House                "
---, Frank               25  M  W   At Home                         "         Citizen
---, Charles            18  M  W        "                                "      school
---, William            14  M  W        "                                "           "
Mitchell, Julia L.    15   F  W        "                                "           "

1880 Census:
ED 60, p. 16
Lewis, Charles T.     W  M  28              Head  Md  Farmer               ME  ME  ME
---, Addie                 W  F  25               Wife   Md   Keeping house  ME  ME  ME
---, Theodatus          W  M   4                Son   S                             ME  ME  ME
---, Henry R.            W  M   3                Son   S                             ME  ME  ME
---, Rosetta              W  F     6/12  Dec  Dau   S                             ME  ME  ME
---, Olive M.             W  F  65             Mother  Wd  Keeping house   ME  ME  ME
Hall, Theodatus       W  M  56                         S                             ME  ME  ME
Maxfield, Authur      W  M  20                         S   Laborer               ME  ME  ME

Lewis, Frank R.       W  M  34   Head  Md   Farmer              ME  ME  ME
---, Annette A.         W   F  28   Wife   Md   Keeping house   ME  ME  ME
---, Blanche A          W  F    3    Dau   S                              ME  ME  ME
... 1 servant

Buried:
Æ 72y, 2m (wife of George Lewis)

Olive married George H. Lewis on 3 May 1836 in Penobscot County, Maine. George (son of George Lewis and Dorcas Lambert) was born about Mar 1798 in Maine; died on 16 Sep 1872 in Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine; was buried about 16 Sep 1872 in Jackman Corner Cemetery, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Nancy Rollins Lewis
• FamilySearch ID: KZ6H-3HK
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 23312212
• 1850 Census: 10 Aug 1850, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine
• 1860 Census: 18 Jun 1860, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

According to the Ancestral File at familysearch.org, Edith N Lewis was born 14 Jul 1842 in Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine, married William Pitt Oakes on 12 Aug 1869 in Sangerville, died 7 Feb 1923 and is buried in Dover Cemetery, Piscataquis, Maine.

Published in the Piscataquis (ME) Observer 19 Aug 1869 p2: "MARRIED---In Sangerville, Aug. 12th, by D. W. Hussey, Esq., Mr. Wm. P. Oakes and Miss Edith N. Lewis, both of Sangerville."

1880 census of Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine p24C: Edith N Oakes, age 37, she & parents born in Maine, listed with husband, William P, 46, and children: Louis, 9, Gertie, 7, Harry, 5, Jessie, 2, and unnamed baby girl, 4 months.

1900 census of Foxcroft, Piscataquis, Maine p4A: Edith N Oakes, age 59, born in Jul 1842 in Maine, parents born in Maine, listed with husband of 30 years, Wm B, 68 and children, Harry, 25 and Myrtice M, 20 as well as married daughter, Jessie J Babson, 22 and her new husband, George J, 44.


Gravesite Details
Wife of William P Oakes.

Birth:
"Maine, Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4H4-V7M : 14 January 2020), Ollive M. Lewis in entry for Nancy Rollins Lewis, 1842.

Name      Nancy Rollins Lewis
Sex      Female
Father's Name      George H. Lewis
Father's Sex      Male
Mother's Name      Ollive M. Lewis
Mother's Sex      Female
Event Type      Birth
Event Date      14 Jul 1842
Event Place      Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine, United States

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KZ6H-3HK

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23312212

1850 Census:
p. 184a
George H Lewis   39  M  Farmer   $1200   Maine
Olive M.      "       35  F                              "
George       "       10  M                             "      school
Nancy        "         7  F                              "          "
Franklin      "        4  M                              "          "
Susan        "        2   F                              "

1860 Census:
East Sangerfield PO, pp. 26-27
G, H. Lewis        51  M   Farmer     ----  ----   Maine
Olive M  "           45   F                                   "
George   "          21  M   Farmer                      "
Nancy E   "        17   F   C S Teacher              "
Frank       "        14   M  Farmer                      "      school
Susan E.  "        10   F                                   "          "
-----  p. 27 -----
Charles Lewis      8   M                               Maine
Willie      "           4   M                                   "

Edith married William Pitt Oakes on 12 Aug 1869 in Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine. William (son of Colonel William Oakes, Jr. and Mary E. Weymouth) was born on 8 Mar 1833 in Sangerville, Penobscot County, Maine; died on 1 Feb 1913 in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine; was buried after 1 Feb 1913 in Dover Cemetery, Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: KL48-37G
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 164495709
• Group: Veteran - Army
• Group: Veteran of Civil War - Union
• 1850 Census: 10 Aug 1850, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine
• 1860 Census: 18 Jun 1860, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine
• 1870 Census: 11 Jul 1870, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine
• 1880 Census: 14 Jun 1880, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Civil War Veteran enlisted from Sangerville Maine 18 Oct. 1862 Private 22nd Maine Infantry Co. I.
Contributor: Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (48353502)

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KL48-37G

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/164495709

Group:
Veteran of the United States Army

Group:
Person who served in the Civil War in the Union Forces (Grand Army of the Republlic)

1850 Census:
p. 184a
George H Lewis   39  M  Farmer   $1200   Maine
Olive M.      "       35  F                              "
George       "       10  M                             "      school
Nancy        "         7  F                              "          "
Franklin      "        4  M                              "          "
Susan        "        2   F                              "

1860 Census:
East Sangerfield PO, pp. 26-27
G, H. Lewis        51  M   Farmer     ----  ----   Maine
Olive M  "           45   F                                   "
George   "          21  M   Farmer                      "
Nancy E   "        17   F   C S Teacher              "
Frank       "        14   M  Farmer                      "      school
Susan E.  "        10   F                                   "          "
-----  p. 27 -----
Charles Lewis      8   M                               Maine
Willie      "           4   M                                   "

1870 Census:
Dover PO, p. 171
Lewis, George H.   68  M  W   Farmer  $3000  $6000   Maine    Citizen
---, Olive M.           56   F  W   Keeping House                "
---, Frank               25  M  W   At Home                         "         Citizen
---, Charles            18  M  W        "                                "      school
---, William            14  M  W        "                                "           "
Mitchell, Julia L.    15   F  W        "                                "           "

1880 Census:
ED 60, p. 16
Lewis, Charles T.     W  M  28              Head  Md  Farmer               ME  ME  ME
---, Addie                 W  F  25               Wife   Md   Keeping house  ME  ME  ME
---, Theodatus          W  M   4                Son   S                             ME  ME  ME
---, Henry R.            W  M   3                Son   S                             ME  ME  ME
---, Rosetta              W  F     6/12  Dec  Dau   S                             ME  ME  ME
---, Olive M.             W  F  65             Mother  Wd  Keeping house   ME  ME  ME
Hall, Theodatus       W  M  56                         S                             ME  ME  ME
Maxfield, Authur      W  M  20                         S   Laborer               ME  ME  ME

Lewis, Frank R.       W  M  34   Head  Md   Farmer              ME  ME  ME
---, Annette A.         W   F  28   Wife   Md   Keeping house   ME  ME  ME
---, Blanche A          W  F    3    Dau   S                              ME  ME  ME
... 1 servant

Frank married Annette A. "Nettie" Howard on 15 Jan 1874 in Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine. Annette was born on 9 Sep 1851 in Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine; died on 19 Apr 1889 in Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine; was buried about 19 Apr 1889 in Jackman Corner Cemetery, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Frank married Delia A. Davenport before 1892. Delia was born in 1858 in Brighton, Somerset County, Maine; died on 21 Apr 1946 in Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine; was buried about 21 Apr 1946 in Jackman Corner Cemetery, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: KL4F-3Q6
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 104553758
• 1860 Census: 18 Jun 1860, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine
• 1870 Census: 11 Jul 1870, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine
• 1880 Census: 14 Jun 1880, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Published in the Piscataquis (ME) Observer 24 Dec 1874 p2: "MARRIED---In Sangerville, Dec. 19th, Mr. Charles T. Lewis and Miss Addie E. Johnson."
Contributor: Cemetery Hopper (46953331)

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KL4F-3Q6

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104553758

1860 Census:
East Sangerfield PO, pp. 26-27
G, H. Lewis        51  M   Farmer     ----  ----   Maine
Olive M  "           45   F                                   "
George   "          21  M   Farmer                      "
Nancy E   "        17   F   C S Teacher              "
Frank       "        14   M  Farmer                      "      school
Susan E.  "        10   F                                   "          "
-----  p. 27 -----
Charles Lewis      8   M                               Maine
Willie      "           4   M                                   "

1870 Census:
Dover PO, p. 171
Lewis, George H.   68  M  W   Farmer  $3000  $6000   Maine    Citizen
---, Olive M.           56   F  W   Keeping House                "
---, Frank               25  M  W   At Home                         "         Citizen
---, Charles            18  M  W        "                                "      school
---, William            14  M  W        "                                "           "
Mitchell, Julia L.    15   F  W        "                                "           "

1880 Census:
ED 60, p. 16
Lewis, Charles T.     W  M  28              Head  Md  Farmer               ME  ME  ME
---, Addie                 W  F  25               Wife   Md   Keeping house  ME  ME  ME
---, Theodatus          W  M   4                Son   S                             ME  ME  ME
---, Henry R.            W  M   3                Son   S                             ME  ME  ME
---, Rosetta              W  F     6/12  Dec  Dau   S                             ME  ME  ME
---, Olive M.             W  F  65             Mother  Wd  Keeping house   ME  ME  ME
Hall, Theodatus       W  M  56                         S                             ME  ME  ME
Maxfield, Authur      W  M  20                         S   Laborer               ME  ME  ME

Lewis, Frank R.       W  M  34   Head  Md   Farmer              ME  ME  ME
---, Annette A.         W   F  28   Wife   Md   Keeping house   ME  ME  ME
---, Blanche A          W  F    3    Dau   S                              ME  ME  ME
... 1 servant

Charles married Addie E. Johnson on 19 Dec 1874 in Piscataquis County, Maine. Addie was born on 24 Mar 1854 in Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine; died on 20 Jul 1942; was buried about 20 Jul 1942 in Village Cemetery, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: KL4F-3QV
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 24873884
• 1860 Census: 18 Jun 1860, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine
• 1870 Census: 11 Jul 1870, Sangerville, Piscataquis County, Maine

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900: Willie E Lewis was born on 8 May 1856 in Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine to George H & Ollive M Lewis.

1870 census of Sangerville, Piscataquis, Maine p17: William Lewis, age 14, born in Maine, listed with parents, George H, 62 & Olive M, 56, and siblings, Frank, 27?, and Charles, 18 as well as a Julia L Mitchell, 15.

Maine Marriages, 1771-1907: William E Lewis married Euness F Rand on 14 Apr 1880 in Parkman, Piscataquis, Maine AND married Eunice F Rand on 5 May 1880 in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis, Maine.

Published in the Piscataquis (ME) Observer 20 May 1880 p2: "MARRIED---In Dover, May 5, by Rev. S. C. Whitcomb, Mr. William E. Lewis of Parkman and Miss Eunice P. Rand of Foxcroft."

1880 census of Parkman, Piscataquis, Maine p12A: William E Lewis, age 24, born in Maine, listed with wife, Eunice F, also 24, as well as Charles B Ireland, 21.

1910 census of Milo, Piscataquis, Maine p9: William E Lewis, age 54, he & parents born in Maine, works as a teamster at odd jobs, listed with wife of 29 years, Eunice F, also 54.

1920 census of Milo, Piscataquis, Maine sheet 10: E William Lewis, age 63, livery stable laborer, he & parents born in Maine, listed with wife, Unice R, 64.

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/KL4F-3QV

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24873884

1860 Census:
East Sangerfield PO, pp. 26-27
G, H. Lewis        51  M   Farmer     ----  ----   Maine
Olive M  "           45   F                                   "
George   "          21  M   Farmer                      "
Nancy E   "        17   F   C S Teacher              "
Frank       "        14   M  Farmer                      "      school
Susan E.  "        10   F                                   "          "
-----  p. 27 -----
Charles Lewis      8   M                               Maine
Willie      "           4   M                                   "

1870 Census:
Dover PO, p. 171
Lewis, George H.   68  M  W   Farmer  $3000  $6000   Maine    Citizen
---, Olive M.           56   F  W   Keeping House                "
---, Frank               25  M  W   At Home                         "         Citizen
---, Charles            18  M  W        "                                "      school
---, William            14  M  W        "                                "           "
Mitchell, Julia L.    15   F  W        "                                "           "

William married Eunice F. Rand on 5 May 1880 in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine. Eunice was born in 1855 in Maine; died in 1928; was buried about 1928 in Rural Grove Cemetery, Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: MWTZ-VNY
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 55486722

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Louis was the son of William Pitt Oakes and Edith (Lewis) Oakes.

"LOUIS OAKES, Sir Harry's Brother, Dies"

Greenville, Maine - Louis C. Oakes, 93, wealthy lumbering, mining and manufacturing executive, died at his residence here Thursday evening.

He was the brother of Sir Harry Oakes, multi-millionaire mining executive, who discovered one of the world's richest gold deposits in Canada.

Mr. Oakes was born February 15, 1871, at Sangerville, the son of William P. and Edith (Lewis) Oakes. He had been a resident of this town since 1907.

He was superintendant of the Hollingsworth and Whitney Paper Co. until his retirement in 1951. He received an honorary degree at the University of Maine in 1953.

Mr. Oakes was known throughout the state as a philanthropist and as a forester. He received a certificate of apreciation from the Maine Committee of American Forest Products Industries three years ago.

He was the first chief warden appointed by the Maine Forestry District upon its establishment in 1909 and held the post through 1918. Since then he had been a deputy forest fire warden.

He had received a doctor of laws degree from Colby College in 1954.
_____

The following comments are by Fred Arthur Oakes, author of "Oakes and Relatives" (1974):

"While I was in Maine, in the summer of 1962, searching old cemeteries, town records, etc., for information about my ancestors, I was asked many times if I was related to Louis Oakes, especially when I got in the vicinity of Dover-Foxcroft, Guilford and Sangerville. I had never heard of him, so I didn't know. I started asking questions about him and I noticed that everyone talked about him with the greatest respect or reverence. They all advised me to see him. While searching the cemetery at Sangerville, a crew was graveling all the driveways and I talked to them. They said Louis Oakes was paying for the graveling as a donation to the cemetery. He had relatives buried there but his parents and the rest of their family are buried in Dover (Lander & Bassett Cemetery, Dover-Foxcroft, ME).

On June 12, 1962, I drove up to Greenville, Maine, about 30 miles north of Sangerville and found Louis Oakes at his beautiful home there. I told him who I was and he invited me into the house. He was a tall slender man and stood straight as a man of 30, in spite of his 91 years. His mind was very alert, with no sign of senility. I can't remember of ever spending a more enjoyable afternoon and evening that I did with him that day.

He got his family Bible and I copied all the family records written on the fly leaves. He also had a copy of the Nathaniel I. Oak family Register, "Oak-Oaks-Oakes" by Henry Lebbeus Oak, which he regarded very highly."

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MWTZ-VNY

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/55486722

Louis married Eva Lois Dunham on 28 Dec 1898. Eva was born on 18 Jun 1873 in Maine; died on 21 Feb 1952 in Greenville, Piscataquis County, Maine; was buried after 21 Feb 1952 in Dover Cemetery, Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• FamilySearch ID: LHCC-PKK
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 6599467

Notes:

From FindaGrave:

Sir Harry Oakes, 1st Baronet
(23 December 1874 –  7 July 1943)

was a British gold mine owner, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist.

Oakes, born December 23, 1874 to Edith and William-Pitt Oakes of Sangerville, was the third of five children. The Oakes family had lived in Sangerville since at least 1808, but in the 1880's William Oakes moved to Foxcroft so his sons could attend Foxcroft Academy.

Harry was 23 years old when he set out on a 16-year journey which took him to Australia, Africa, the Yukon, California, Central America, and Canada. During his college years, he predicted to a classmate that he would become a millionaire and die a violent death "with his boots on." He did both.

Oakes' quest for wealth began in the Yukon where he chipped rock at temperatures which plunged to 60 degrees below zero, even though the gold rush there was coming to a close. In the late 1800's, Oakes spent a year working as a medical assistant treating frostbite cases. By 1906 he found himself shipwrecked off the coast of Alaska, and was taken prisoner briefly by the Russians before being allowed to return to Alaska. Working as a deck hand, Oakes embarked for Australia, where he was once again disappointed in his search for gold. Further failures awaited him in New Zealand and California, the latter in which he suffered and nearly died of heat stroke.

In June of 1911, he traveled to Ontario where he received a new miner's license. From Ontario, he ventured North to Swastika a town in Ontario, Canada. where he met a woman named Roza Brown. Ms. Brown has been described as unusually ugly, malodorous, and was accompanied by snarling dogs. Although she had a well-known contempt for prospectors, Roza ran a boarding house for miners and it was she who put Oakes on the trail to Kirkland Lake and his eventual fortune. Oakes, taking her advice, went to the claims office, leafed through the records and learned of a claim that was going to fall open the next day. However, since he only had $2.65 in his pocket and couldn't wait for money from home, he hurried back to Swastika where he interested a family of four brothers in staking the claim with him.

The five shook hands, agreeing to share in any proceeds from gold that was discovered. The Tough brothers, along with Oakes set out by foot at midnight for the mine. It was 52 degrees below zero as they walked the seven miles through a beginning snowfall. After driving in their stakes, they toasted what they called the Tough-Oakes Mine. Moments later, the former owner of the mine, William Wright, walked into view. Wright saw what had happened, knew he'd lost his claim, and hurried to stake new ones adjoining the Tough-Oakes claim.

Later, he and Oakes formed a partnership and made further claims at Kirkland Lakes. Within eight years, Oakes was the richest man in Canada, where his Lake Shore Mine at Kirkland was second only in wealth to the Homestead Mine in the Black Hills of the Dakotas. After years of struggling to survive, Oakes was now earning an estimated $60,000 a day.

Oakes celebrated his new-found wealth by enjoying a world cruise during which he met a shy, unassuming woman named Eunice MacIntyre, the daughter of a government official. Eunice was twenty-four, six inches taller than Oakes, and 26 years younger. The couple married and returned to Ontario where the following year,

Harry renounced his American citizenship for business reasons. He became a naturalized Canadian, but relocated when he realized that he would have to pay the Canadian government $17,500 per day in taxes for the entitlement to live there. Oakes and his bride sought refuge at Nassau, a Caribbean Island where he would not be required to pay taxes. There, he built a waterworks, a golf course, set up a bus service for the natives, an airplane service for emergency illnesses, a free milk program for children and a fund for unwed mothers. To this he added a gift of $400,000 to St. Georges Hospital in London.

In 1939, King George VI rewarded him by bestowing upon him the title of Baron.

Oakes good fortune came to an abrupt end on a rainy night in July, 1943 while Oakes' wife and four of their five children were vacationing at their summer home in Bar Harbor. Oakes was to join them there the following day, the ninth of July. His close friend Harold Christie, who was later declared to be the perpetrator, told authorities that when he went to wake Oakes at his Nassau estate, he discovered that his skull had been shattered by four blows behind the ear. The body had been partially destroyed by fire, very likely to disguise the true nature of the crime which still remains a "cold case." Christie, who reportedly slept in the adjoining room that night, claimed that he never heard a sound.

What ensued was one of the most disastrous and incompetent police investigations known to date. Important evidence was ignored or discounted, and Oakes autopsy was so badly mishandled that the plane carrying his body had to be recalled in midair for new photographs to be taken. According to the autopsy, Oakes' death had been caused by a single blow or a series of separate blows from a blunt instrument. This conclusion raised a great deal of suspicion, considering that located on the mastoid bone just behind Oakes' right ear were four holes arranged in a square.

Attention was immediately focused on Oakes' son-in-law, Alfred de Marigny. Earlier, Oakes had been seen arguing with him, and de Marigny was deeply mistrusted by the locals. He had arrived in the Bahamas with a playboy reputation and two failed marriages behind him. Moreover, in 1942 he had married Oakes eldest daughter Nancy, only three days after her eighteenth birthday. He had embarrassed the local society in the Bahamas by becoming successful in several businesses without the cooperation of the local community. He particularly irked those of high social status when he frequently won local yacht races. Oakes' son-in-law was arrested and charged with murder the day after Oakes' death. Standing trial, de Marigny was deemed not guilty by a jury in under two hours, and the case was never again reopened.

Years later, Alfred de Marigny went public and claimed that he found one of the missing watchmen who were at Oakes' estate on the night of the murder. He insisted that the man informed him that at the time of the murder, he and the other watchman were sheltering themselves from a sudden storm in a shed. He further recounted that just after midnight, a sedan pulled up to the house and two men got out and went inside the house. The watchmen thought they heard three or four gunshots, and minutes later flames could be seen in Sir Harrys bedroom. The two strangers then exited the scene in the sedan. The two watchmen fled in terror, but not before they identified a third man in the vehicle as Harold Christie.

As told to de Marigny, Christie tracked down the watchmen the next day and paid them each 100 pounds to leave Nassau and never return. They were further encouraged to stay clear of the area when they learned that the local harbor master, an experienced diver, had reportedly drowned in the harbor. The harbor master had reputedly been the only witness to the arrival of a mysterious boat about midnight on the night of the murder.

In the account of de Marigny, Christie avoided investigation because any competent inquiry would have revealed that Oakes, Christie, and the Duke of Windsor had conspired to smuggle millions of dollars out of the Bahamas in violation of currency regulations. The Duke, then the Governor of the Bahamas and former King of Great Britain, possessed the power to reopen the investigation but never did.

Harry Oakes left a personal fortune valued at slightly under $12 million, There is also still the lingering mystery of who murdered Harry Oakes. The official autopsy declared Oakes was killed by a blow to the head, although de Marigny insists a Nassau doctor told him that Oakes was shot to death, a story that coincides with the watchman's account. If de Marigny was telling the truth, there would exist four small-caliber bullets in Harry Oakes' skull.

Sir Harry Oakes is entombed in a marble mausoleum at a Dover-Foxcroft Cemetery.

FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHCC-PKK

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6599467

Harry married Lady Eunice Myrtle MacIntyre on 30 Jun 1923 in Woollahra, Sydney, ____, New South Wales, Australia. Eunice was born on 23 Nov 1898 in Leichhardt, ____, New South Wales, Australia; died on 6 Jun 1981 in Nassau, ____, New Providence, Bahamas; was buried after 6 Jun 1981 in Dover Cemetery, Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: K881-TND
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 175960336

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FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/175960336

Jessie married George J. Babson on 9 Apr 1900 in Maine. George was born on 9 Apr 1855 in Brooksville, Hancock County, Maine; died in Jun 1922 in Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine; was buried about Jun 1922 in Rural Grove Cemetery, Dover-Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jessie married Dr. Lincoln Paul Ellis in 1925. Lincoln was born on 17 Dec 1887 in Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts; died on 23 Mar 1971 in Loudoun County, Virginia; was buried about 23 Mar 1971 in Union Cemetery, Leesburg, Loudoun County, Virginia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FamilySearch ID: GMR6-TXF
• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 120418579

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https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120418579

Susan married Will E. Rollins in 1907. Will was born on 15 Feb 1882; died on 13 Dec 1962; was buried about 13 Dec 1962 in Evergreen Cemetery, Milo, Piscataquis County, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]