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Hereford Preston (Lawrence County, Kentucky, and Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer)

b. 1825?

Floyd County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Arthur Preston and Nancy Preston. Married to Elizabeth Hunt Preston In Lawrence County, Kentucky, on October 26, 1854. Father of Trimble Preston, Wellington Preston, and Mary Preston. Married to Susan Taylor Preston in Lawrence County on August 2, 1864. Father of Elizabeth Preston. Stepfather of Susan Taylor. Farmer in Lawrence County in 1850. Farmer in Floyd County in 1860. Owned one enslaved woman, Dinah, in Floyd County in 1860.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, p. 101B.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Floyd County, p. 122.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Lawrence County, Precinct 6, p. 240A.

Kentucky Birth, Marriage and Death Records – Microfilm (1852-1910), KDLA, Film 994027-994058: Lawrence County Marriages, 1852-1914, p. 4 of 36 of microfilm.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Lawrence County Marriages, 1852-1878, Film #000840550, p. 51, p. 178 of 545 of microfilm.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Kentucky, 9th Congressional District, Vol. 2 of 3, October 1863, p. 294, (Accessed via ancestry.com on August 4, 2020).

Find A Grave, “Heriford Preston (1830-1910)," Memorial 40143587, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40143587 (accessed August 4, 2020).

Citation

Preston, Hereford. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32200077 (November 12, 2026).

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