OATES
James
Oates (?-1703) was an immigrant from Cornwall, England. His Perquimans
County, North Carolina will mentions a son Joseph and wife Elizabeth
Perry Eivens.
He leaves his "best hat" to Jonathan Eivens, his wife's son by an earlier
marriage to Richard Eivens, Jr . James and Elizabeth had married
in 1694 and Joseph was born three years later in 1697. Elizabeth Perry
Eivens Oates died two years after her husband when her son Joseph was about
eight years old.
Elizabeth
had at least two grown children, Jonathan and Rebeccah Eivens, when
she married James Oates.
Elizabeth Wyatt,
the grandchild of Rebeccah's marriage to William Wyatt, married
Joseph Oates (1697-1752), the son of Elizabeth Perry's second marriage.
Joseph and Elizabeth had three sons: John, James and Jethro.
The
grandchildren of James and Jethro married:
James
Oates (1722/4 - 1766) married Sarah Clayton (1733 - 1766)
in 1752. A son was also named James (1757 -1815). He married
Mary Ann Wyatt (1765 - 1820s). Their daughter was Senah ("Polly")
Oates (1787/9 - before 1844).
James'
brother, Jethro Oates (1732 - 1780), married Artesia _________
(1736 - 1807). A daughter was Amia ("Amy") Oates
(1759/61 - 1824). She married Stephen King
(1756 - 1812). A son was Michael King (1782 - 1834/6).
"Polly"
Oates and her cousin, Michael King, married. They were the parents
of fifteen children. Several of the sons migrated to Tennessee.
To
continue our history:
The
youngest, William Thomas King (1833 - 1884) traveled with his older
brothers and their families. In 1869, he married Saluda Jane Box
Tomlinson (1844 - 1915), a widow with several children, including Mary
Edna King ( about 1876 - 1959). When he died, she married his older
brother, Nathan King (1819 - 1889), a widower.
Mary
Edna King married Thomas Albert Nash. They
were the grandparents of Thomas Nash Green,
this researcher.