Obituaries

• Adkins, Ruby Lois
• Fanning, Mitchell Lewis
• May, Harlan Burtrand
• Sanders, Cecil Hubert
• Waller, Kathaleene Morrow
• Wise, Laura Bernice Andrews

Transcribed obituaries in the USGenWeb LAGenWeb Claiborne Archives

• Adkins, Lemiah C. C.
• Adkins, Ruby Lois
• Bond, Earl
• Burns, Monroe
• Calaway, Eunice (Jarrell)
• Calhoun, John Davidson
• Carson, A. S.
• Causey, Ada
• Causey, Lillie Mai (Waller)
• Cheatham, M. O.
• Cline, Luther Fred
• Collins, James Caraway
• Collins, Lanier Patton
• Cox, E. W.
• Davidson, Annie Lee
• Davidson, Ezelle (Fowler)
• Davidson, Gaines Burrell
• Davidson, Savannah
• Davidson, Thomas C., Jr.
• Davis, R. C.
• Day, N. J., Mrs.
• Drew, H. A.
• Dunston, Mary E. (Dansby)
• Fanning, Mitchell Lewis
• Goodwin, James Henry
• Goodwin, John Thomas

• Grafton, Glen
• Greenwood, Alice
• Harris, Phillip
• Henderson, Morris
• Henry, Catherine (Patton)
• Hightower, Thomas Jefferson
• Hollenshead, Franklin Emmette
• Hollenshead, Katie (Miller)
• Hollenshead, Thomas Franklin
• Kirkpatrick, J. H.
• Madden, Katie Drew (Bridges)
• Maddry, Margaret Caroline
• Maddry, William Benton
• Martin, Clarence Hollis
• May, Harlan Burtand
• McClendon, Quintine Jane
• McClendon, R. H., Mrs.
• Meadows, Lucy Ann (Duke)
• Meadows, W. R.
• Melton, Ruth Reeder
• Moore, Amanda (Johnson)
• Moore, Isabelle (Sanders)
• Morgan, C. C.
• Perritt, Madison
• Pittman, Nicholas Wade
• Pittman, Tim H.

• Pratt, C. B.
• Pryor, Edna
• Rancks, Ann
• Reed, Elijah Atkins
• Reeder, E. E.
• Reeder, Prentiss Eugene
• Sanders, Cecil Hubert
• Scott, Christelle Olley
• Scott, George Walter
• Sewell, Ben F.
• Skinner, Clarence C.
• Smith, J. W.
• Stockton, Dorothy (Pittman)
• Talley, Fannie (McEachern)
• Thomas, Elias George
• Traylor, Don Lafayette
• Waller, Kathaleene (Morrow)
• Wise, James Cortez, Jr.
• Wise, Julia F.
• Wise, Laura Bernice (Andrews)
• Wise, Mahanah (O'Bannon)
• Wise, Wayne Wesley
• Womack, William W.
• Wright, Warren Scott

Oakes, Ennis T.

Ennis T Oakes Rites Monday
Oil Operator and Former Baseball Player Succumbs

Funeral services for Ennis T. “Rebel” Oakes, 64, independent Shreveport oil operator and onetime major league baseball star who died Sunday night at a local sanitarium were held Monday afternoon at his native Lisbon, La. The rites were conducted at the Rocky Springs Baptist Church in Lisbon with Rev Gerald Trussed, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Homer officiating. Interment was in the cemetery at Lisbon under direction of the Kerlin Funeral Home of Homer.

Pallbearers were Lamont Seals, O. M. Kerlin, E. W. Gill, O. S. Middlebrook, Dewitt Carothers, A. B. Atkins, Mr. Slagle, and Mr. Brown. Mr. Oakes played centerfield with the Cincinnati Reds and St Louis Cardinals in the first decade of the century and managed the Pittsburgh team in 1914 when the old Federal League was formed during the baseball rift.

He was credited with having brought in the Lisbon oil field near Homer in the middle thirties. He maintained an office here in the First National Bank building.

Mr. Oakes is believed to have acquired his nickname “Rebel” as a Southerner playing with the northern baseball teams. Others claim that he acquired the name when he participated in the Federal League rebellion.

Before entering major league ball Oakes played with the Pacific Coast League. He is reported to have batted over .300 at one point in his major league career. Upon leaving the Federal League he took over the management of the Denver club in the Western League. He began his career in the Mississippi and the Three-I leagues.

Surviving are his widow Mrs. Sybil Oakes, two brothers J. Melton Oakes, president of the Homer National Bank of Homer and Jack Oakes of the state department Baton Rouge, a sister Mrs. Sam Newsom of Dallas, a nephew, J. E. Oakes of Shreveport and cousin, Guy Oakes of Shreveport.

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Transcribed and contributed 02 Sep 2020 by Wesley Harris
Source: The Shreveport Journal, Shreveport, Louisiana, 02 Mar 1948, Page 5

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