Oakes Angier (1745-1786) - Find a Grave Memorial

Oakes Angier

Birth

1745

Death

1 Sep 1786 (aged 40–41)

Burial

Old Graveyard

West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map

Plot

Section A marker #16

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Oakes graduated from Harvard University in 1764. He read law with the elder President Adams. He settled as an attorney in West Bridgewater

Oakes married Susanna Howard in 1774. They had children:
Charles - 1774
Mary - 1776
John - 1778
Sarah - 1780
Susanna - 1783
Oakes - 1785

Inscription

Oakes Angier, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, departed this life Sept. 1st, A. D. 1786, in the 41st, year of his age, and here lies interred with mind vigorous and penetrating, assiduous and indefatigable in business. He soon arrived at eminence in his profession. Seventeen years practice at the bar with fidelity, integrity and ability established his reputation, and improved his fortune, but too fatally injured his constitution in the meridian of life, by a lingering and incurable malady. The Great Teacher put a period to his days, thereby affording an affecting evidence of the futility of the fondest dreams of terrestrial felicity.