Guess and Click
Old Family Secret Reveled by GA Post
After 70 years a local historian and author discovered our family secret - the
Moran community was Margaret Mitchell's template for Tara in "Gone with the
Wind". Go to Farm Tour and click on the links for jpegs of the article.
An Additional Word about John Martin Oakey and a
data storage DVD
In April, after the JMO page was posted, Ellen Godsey, who is the granddaughter of Crawford Oakey of Roanoke, gave Cousin Sammy Oakey in Virginia a copy of a biography of John Martin Oakey by Clifford Green Oakey. The page I posted is now available in the Our History section and I will shortly post a couple of interesting exerpts from the CGO document.
In addition I created a data storage DVD for
several family members who expressed an interest
in some of the Oakey family genea0l0gy.
La Vérité ("Truth") by
Jules Joseph
Lefebvre
TRUTH has been moved to the
News&Views archive:
T R U
T H
Thoughts: Bill Clinton's verbal
obfuscation relied on exigent semantic deception.
Rev Rufus W. Oakey on Peleliu: Biographical
Information Resulting from an Email Inquiry
[The
text of the entire document with some illustration
can be found in pdf format through the link below.]
Jason McDonald, webmaster for worldwar2database.com, sent me an email inquiry
about the Rememberance article on Reverend Rufus W. Oakey. The exchange of
messages, mostly between Jason and Rufus Jr., provided some insight and pictures
that no family member or anyone interested in WWII could help but find
interesting!
I had no idea that an oil painting of Uncle Rufus
by a famous WWII artist was published in Life Magazine but identified him
incorrectly.
Read it all here:
Rev. Rufus Oakey on
Peleliu
John Martin Oakey Biography Extractions Now
Available in Our History
Clifford Green Oakey put a lot of work into the
lengthy, single spaced document that he called a
biography of his father, John Martin Oakey.
While it is admitedly very difficult and sometimes
frustrating reading (reflecting our Quaker
origins), there is information of family interest
embeded in it. Guessing that some family
members will not find it worth the effort, after a
page or two, to plow through it, there are now two
"distilled" extractions that I hope will be more
palatable. None of Clifford's words have
been changed - just judiciously selected. Located
in the Our History section, here are quick links.
I hope you will find these interesting:
An Extraction of Genealogical and Anecdotal
Personal Information from the Clifford Oakey Green
Biography of John Martin Oakey
An Extraction of References to Horticulture and
Husbandry from the Clifford Green Oakey
Biography of John Martin Oakey