Moses Preston Jr.

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1830-12-28

Death Date

1869-07-01

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White

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"Moses Preston Jr." in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00013150, (accessed April 25, 2024).

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Johnson County, Kentucky, clerk and merchant. Kentucky native. Son of Moses Preston Sr. and Elizabeth Haney Preston. Married to Jane Preston. Father of Virginia Preston and John M. Preston. Married to Louisa Hager Preston. Clerk employed by his father, Moses Preston Sr., in Johnson County in 1850. Merchant in Johnson County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Johnson County, p. 81A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Johnson County, pp. 149-50.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Mortality Schedules, Kentucky, Johnson County, Paintsville, p. 1.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Johnson County, Paintsville, p. 182A.
Kentucky, Wills and Probate Records, 1774-1989, Kentucky County, District, and Probate Courts, Johnson County Wills, Vol. B-F, 1869-1975, p. 137 of 1408 of microfilm (Accessed through ancestry.com on August 5, 2020).
Find A Grave, “Moses Preston III (1830-1869)," Memorial 144599400, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/144599400/moses-preston (accessed August 4, 2020).
William Ely, The Big Sandy Valley, (Central Methodist, Catlettsburg, Kentucky, 1887), pp. 76-81.

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