Edwin Oates family
1-29-1884,   1-2-1945
Laura Mitchell Oates
7-29-1889, 2-28-1968

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aerial view of the Edwin Oates home and farm
(photo by Tom Hopkins in 1963)

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5 Sons of Edwin and Laura Oates –
Joe, Mitchell, Sam, Bob, and John

Philip C. Smith Jr. and Laura (Jim) Oates Smith,
Honeymoon in Nassau, Bahamas – 1951

John, Cousin Norris, Uncle John Martin, Cousin George, and Joe Oates

John Edwin Oates with his bird dog

John enjoying a cigar

Sue, Butch, Tom, and Mike at White Lake
(early 1950s)

Sharon, Tom, and Dorothy at White Lake
(early 1950s)

JT and Butch fishing in Young Swamp

Dorothy, Janet, Sue, Katherine Warr (Mitchell family), Ann, Dennis,
Linda, Sharon, Melville, and Butch – 1957

        
Laura Mitchell Oates in her kitchen, crumbling her delicious
crisp biscuits, most likely to make dressing   (photo taken 1960)