Oates Land Grants and Land Grants of Their Neighbors

The following maps show the location of several land grants to Oates family members, and the 550 acreas that Jethro Oates bought from Henry McCulloch, when he moved from Dobbs/Wayne to Duplin/Sampson in 1768. The home and graveyard of Jethro and Artesha Oates is not known. However, in the inventory of Jethro's estate by his son-in-law, Stephen King, it was stated that Jethro lived here.

There is an abandoned cemetery located on the parcel allotted to Jethro Oates, son of Jethro E. Oates, in that 1823 estate division. It is in the corner of Youngs Swamp and a small branch, the latter being the first branch south of Slocums branch. When I discovered the cemetery in 1988, there was a couple of temporary tin markers from a black funeral home in Wilson, N.C. on the edge of the north side of this rather large area. The last burial had been in the 1940's with name of the deceased not visible.  From it's overall appearance, this cemetery might be old.

In "Roots, Seeds, and Other Things", Vol. 1, page 87, this cemetery is identified as Item 21 on the map.

The maps, by using other land grant plots, lets us know who the Oates neighbors were.

J.M. Oates, Jr.
6-22-2001