Does anyone know...?

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Rec'd the following email inquiry today and am not familiar with this name. Anyone want to help?

Have your Lincoln assassination researchers ever come across the name of Edward Oaksmith? The Long Island Advance (I believe) ran an obituary of his mother, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, on November 24, 1893. The obituary contains this: "Some place a good deal of credence in the statement that possibly Edward Oakesmith [sic] was one of the conspirators who assassinated Lincoln."

(quoted in Passages from the Correspondence and Other Papers of Rufus W. Griswold. Cambridge: W M Griswold, p.132)