When Seibert Seth Oakes was born on 26 April 1936, in Everett, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, Jacob Garvin Oakes, was 27 and his mother, Hannah Alma Young, was 27. He married Patricia May Kuklo on 2 October 1976, in Winchester, Upshur, Virginia, United States. He died on 30 May 2000, in Altoona, Blair, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Everett Cemetery, Everett, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States.
English: topographic name, a variant of Oak with either an original plural -s or an excescent -s added later to the surname.
Irish (Louth, Wexford): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Dubhdara ‘son of Dubhdara’, a personal name composed of the elements dubh ‘dark’ + dara(ch), genitive of dair ‘oak’, by translation of the main element of the Gaelic name.
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