David Oakley

(19 November 1750 - 31 October 1829)
Date this page was last edited=2 Feb 2012
David Oakley was born on 19 November 1750 in Mile Square, Yonkers, Westchester County, New York.1 He was the son of David Oakley and Sarah Hunt. (The Oakley Genealogy by Philip Horne says he was born in 1752.)2

David Oakley was a member of a militia company formed in Yonkers in 1775.3

David Oakley married Eunice Oakley, daughter of William Oakley and Eunice Hunt, about 1778.2,1 David and Eunice were first cousins, since they both had Miles and Sarah Oakley as grandparents and also Moses and Ann Hunt as grandparents.

David Oakley resided next to his father in 1788 in Mile Square.1 After the death of his father in 1796, he moved to New York, New York.1

David Oakley died on 31 October 1829 in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York, at age 78.4,2 (Jones states he died in New York City in 1820.)1 He was buried in St. Paul's Cemetery, Eastchester, Westchester County, New York.4

Child of David Oakley and Eunice Oakley

Citations

  1. [S336] Jones, Early Westchester Families, 188.
  2. [S337] Horne, Oakley Genealogy, 41.
  3. [S336] Jones, Early Westchester Families, 224.
  4. [S339] Spies, St. Paul's Church, 86.


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