Does anyone know...?
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10-01-2017, 11:58 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-02-2017 12:59 PM by Steve.)
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RE: Does anyone know...?
(09-19-2017 02:17 AM)John Fazio Wrote: Everyone: I was just thinking over Mrs. McClermont's testimony. Ignore the problematic identifications from at least a year before the assassination and assume that she was mistaken about when she overheard the conversation and it was closer to the summer of 1864 when it would be more likely that Lincoln's family would be at Soldiers' Home. There was an incident that sort of matches what she described. In August 1864, some unknown person took a shot at Lincoln as he was riding up to Soldiers' Home. That seems to match closely with what she testified, about a "telescopic riffle". |
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10-20-2017, 01:02 PM
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RE: Does anyone know...?
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) |
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10-20-2017, 03:51 PM
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RE: Does anyone know...?
There's that NY crowd again???
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10-20-2017, 05:30 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-20-2017 06:44 PM by Steve.)
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I found this blog post about Edward Oaksmith's mother, Elizabeth Oakes Smith that has some information on Edward:
http://lorenelizabethchristie.blogspot.c...fe-in.html and her papers at the University of Virginia: https://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/vie...u03614.xml Apparently, even though Elizabeth was a Unionist and opponent of slavery there was an effort to paint her as a southern sympathizer at the time of her death. The "anecdote" of son Edward possibly being a member of the conspiracy probably arises from that. I can find no mention of it before the 1890's. Elizabeth did have a son, Appleton Oaksmith who did support the Confederacy as a blockade runner, was caught and then escaped from a Boston prison in 1862 and fled to London. Here's a link to a brief 1880 bio of Edward Oaksmith: https://books.google.com/books?id=g2lsPj...22&f=false He translated the play Narcisse from the German in 1863. He also apparently was an artist: http://figure-drawings.blogspot.com/2009...-feet.html and http://nyeandcompany.com/auctions/70/a-c...ry-98.html |
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10-20-2017, 06:52 PM
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RE: Does anyone know...?
(10-20-2017 05:30 PM)Steve Wrote: I found this blog post about Edward Oaksmith's mother, Elizabeth Oakes Smith that has some information on Edward: WOW, once again, Steve. Thanks so much, and I am forwarding this to the inquirer. |
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10-20-2017, 09:50 PM
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I liked this excerpt, things haven't changed much. -
It’s hard to tell where Brooklyn Eagle reporters got their information, or if they were sometimes just making it up as they went. This is taken from Elizabeth Oakes Smith’s obituary in the November 20, 1893 Brooklyn Eagle. Even though it is inaccurate, it is interesting to read the general opinion (and misconception) about EOS at the time of her death. |
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