Groesbeck, TX, United States
Oakes Cemetery. This cemetery began with the burials of Mary C. Justice (d. 1861) and Roland Pair (d. 1865). It is located on land later owned by John Collins Oakes and his wife Winnie (Radford), who migrated here from Perry County, Alabama in the years following the Civil War with their family and
prospered as landowners and farmers. John Oakes died in 1876, and in 1891, Winnie formally set aside the graveyard. Since then, Oakes family descendants and others in the community have helped maintai
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