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PRESTON FAMILY

ABINGDON, VIRGINIA

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MY FIRST ATTEMPT

There are three distinct branches of this family that immigrated to America.  They are related back in Ulster, Ireland, and came on various dates

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PRESTON FAMILY

ABINGDON, VIRGINIA

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IMMIGRANT (1793)

SAMUEL PRESTON

ISABELLE ELDERS

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SAMUEL PRESTON

MARY CUMMINGS PARROTT

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     MARY ELDER PRESTON

     JOHN  FAIRMAN PRESTON SUMMERS

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     DAVID ALEXANDER PRESTON

     MARY LOUISE FOWLER

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(SAMUEL PRESTON IMMIGRATED WITH HIS COUSIN "iRISH BOB " PRESTON IN 1793.

MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE STATES SAMUEL

ALEX. PRESTON WAS THE SON OF SAMUEL PRESTON THE IMMIGRANT, SO HOW CAN sAMUEL ALEX HAVE BEEN BORN IN ULSTER)

WALNUT GROVE

PRESTON FAMILY

WASHINGTON  COUNTY, VIRGINIA

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ROBERT PRESTON

ELEANOR FAIRMAN

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COL JOHN FAIRMAN PRESTON 

MARGARET BROWN "PEGGY" PRESTON

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IMMIGRANT  (1793)

ROBERT PRESTON JR "IRISH BOB"

(ADOPTED)

   

JOHN FAIRMAN PRESTON

JANE NANCY RHEA

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     NANNIE MONTGOMERY PRESTON

     COL. JOHN CALHOUN SUMMERS

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          JOHN FAIRMAN PRESTON SUMMERS

          MARY ELDER PRESTON

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SMITHFIELD  

PRESTON FAMILY

BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA

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IMMIGRANT  1738

JOHN PRESTON 

ELIZABETH PATTON

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COL. WILLIAM PATTON

SUSANNAH SMITH

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GEN. FRANCIS SMITH PRESTON

SARAH BUCHANAN CAMPBELL

  

     (7) WILLIAM PRESTON

         CAROLINE HANCOCK

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                   HENRIETTA PRESTON

                   GEN. ALBERT SIDNEY                                     JOHNSTON 

 

       (12) MARGARET BROWN "PEGGY"                 PRESTON 

           COL. jOHN FAIRMAN PRESTON

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       (14) MARGARET BUCHANAN PRESTON

       GEN. WADE HAMPTON

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INDIAN

CRUMPS BOTTOM

MOUTH OF INDIAN CREEK

NEW RIVER        FLOWS NORTH

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PEMBROKE

FORT BRANCH

PEARISBURG

RIPPLEMEAD

HATFIELD'S FORT

SNIDOW'S FORT

JOHN HENDERSON

GEORGE PEARIS

MITCHELL CLAY

CHRISTIAN SNIDOW

ISAAC CHAPMAN

DAVID JOHNSTON

JOHN CHAPMAN, Sr.

GILES COUNTY, VIRGINIA  Selected Revolutionary War Veteran Gravesites​

Source:

"Giles County, Virginia  - History, Families                         1983  Page 33 

FARLEY'S FORT

HARMON'S FORT

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        About 1900   Left to Right:  Dawn Lindsey, Dr. Allan Fowler, Nannie Belle Fowler Lindsey, McDonald Lindsey,                                                                                                Cilla Fowler Goodwyn, Allen Goodwyn,                                                                   David Preston Holding Icelia Preston, Mary Louise Fowler Preston,  Kizzie Chapman Fowler, Louise "Dick" Preston Greene                                                                                                     and I. C. Fowler

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Gen. James Patton Anderson - Camp 1599

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SCV  PALM BEACH

Gen. James Patton Anderson - Camp 1599

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WANTED:  A Few Good Men   -    Cannoneers

Living Historians - Re-enactors

Complimentary Ancestor Seach

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Major General

James Patton Anderson

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SCV Camp 1599

West Palm Beach, Florida

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       SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS      Florida Division 

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Major General James Patton Anderson 

Camp 1599

                     West Palm Beach, Florida

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Sons of  Confederate Veterans

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