John Preston b.5-12-1764 d.3-27-1827, second child and first son of William Preston and Susanna Smith, born at "Greenfield", baptized by Rev. Caldwell. He was a member of the Virginia Legislature for many years and was Treasurer of Virginia many years. He married twice, first to Miss Mary Radford of Richmond, Va., and second to Mrs. Mayo, formerly Miss Elizabeth Carrington. He died at "Smithfield". John Preston and Mary Radford had 5 children:

1. William Preston married Elizabeth Cabell of Lynchburg, Va. They then moved to Missouri. They had 9 children:
• Landon Preston.
• Pauline Preston married Dr. William Talley and had two children:
• William Talley married a cousin, Lucy Talley.
• Joseph Talley.
• Marion Preston married Samuel David Williamson. They had 5 children:
• Rose Williamson married Capt. William Cash of Washington, D. C.
• William Preston Williamson.
• Landon Cabell Williamson married Miss VanLick of New York.
• Samuel Stuart Williamson married Mary Perry.
• Marion Radford Williamson married Dr. Franklin Castle of Philadelphia, Pa.
• Aurinthia Preston married Joseph Talley. (Brother of Dr. William Talley above.)
• Ouachita Pushmataha Preston married Jane Eliza Pitts and went to Texas to live. They had 1 child:
• Lambeth Preston married Kate Cooper of Richmond, TX. They had 4 children:
• Alice Preston married a Mr. Palmer of Sour Lake, Texas.
• Howard Preston moved to Florida to live.
• Frances St. Bernard Preston married James R. Montague. They had 4 children:
• Mary Elizabeth Montague married Frank Warren of Johnston, S.C.
• Jane Bratton married W. R. Harney of Jacksonville Florida.
• Frances married A. B. Bogue.
• Shirley Montague married Robert Morrow of Jacksonville, Florida.
• Meredith Preston, fourth child of Lambeth Preston and Kate Cooper.
• Elizabeth, sixth child of William and Elizabeth Cabell Preston, married Mr. Randolf.
• Isadora Preston.
• Thomas Preston.
• Rebecca Preston married Dr. Meux of Mississippi.
2. John Breckenridge Preston, second child of John Preston and Mary Radford, married Susan Jordon (1807-1868) of Rockbridge, Va. in 1825. They had 5 children:
• Mary Preston married Wilburn Bybee of Glasgow, Ky. in 1843. She died in 1891. They had 4 children:
• John B. Bybee married Miss Reynolds and lived in Glasgow, Ky.
• Mary Bybee.
• James Bybee.
• Edward Bybee.
• Samuel Preston (1827-1922) married Miss Susan Murrell in 1847. They lived at Cave City, Ky. They had 7 children:
• Pattie Preston b.9-18-1849.
• Fanny Preston b.9-5-1859.
• Susan Preston b.3-9-1857.
• Ella Preston b.1865.
• John B. Preston b.2-5-1867 d.9-9-1922.
• David Preston b.10-30-1869 d.9-9-1922.
• Schuyler Preston b.3-25-1872 d.12-25-1910.
• John Breckenridge Preston II, b.11-17-1828 d.10-10-1897, third child of John Preston and Susan Jordon, married Virginia F. Carden b.11-26-1834 d.12-9-1923 on 1-4-1855. They had 5 children:
• John Breckenridge Preston III b.3-11-1857 d.4-2-1875.
• Lucian Washington Preston b.1-22-1862 d.4-18-1928 married in 1887, Miss Ettie Allen b.6-1-1868 d.11-2-1903. They had 7 children:
• Jewell C. Preston b.6-14-1889.
• A son, b.12-30-1891 and died same day.
• Bertha Sue Preston b.10-7-1893 married first Robert Hammer; second, O. L. Darter.
• Anne Eliza Preston b.2-29-1896 married Thomas C. Delvaux.
• Leonard W. Preston b.11-9-1898.
• John B. Preston b.6-15-1901.
• Ettie Allen Preston b.10-29-1903 d.12-13-1969.
• Eliza Preston b.11-5-1855 d.12-10-1938 married E. H. Chaplin.
• Emma Preston (1864-1938) married J. F. Allen.
• Sue Preston b.9-8-1867 d.5-2-1893 married James Davis.
• Edward C. Preston b.2-24-1832 d.xxxx, 4th child of John Breckenridge Preston and Susan Jordon, married Miss Sara Ellen Ellis in 1855 and they had four children, George, Edward, Anne and Caroline Preston.
• Susan Frances Preston b.6-13-1833 married Joseph Bybee in 1849, and went to Union Co., Illinois to live. They had 5 children. Susan, Cora, Preston, Elizabeth and William Bybee.
3. Elizabeth Madison Preston, third child of John Preston and Mary Radford married Charles Johnston, a lawyer and member of Congress. They had 2 children:
• John Preston Johnston, Lieut. in Army, killed in Cherubusco, Mexico.
• Eliza M. Johnston married Robert M. Hughes I, of Abingdon, Va. They had 3 children:
• Nannie, adopted by Gov. and Mrs. John B. Floyd. Died in infancy.
• Robert M. Hughes II, a Judge in Norfolk, Va.
• Floyd died young.
4. Susan M. Preston, fourth child of John Preston and Mary Radford, married her cousin, William Radford. They had 3 children:
• Elizabeth Radford married her cousin William Alfred Preston and they lived in "Greenfield". They had one child. For information on this family use the Link to William Alfred Preston.

Elizabeth Radford Preston married secondly, Col. John Munford of Williamsburg, Va and they had one child:

• Minnie Munford who married Gilmer Breckenridge. They lived at "Black Hollow" near Abingdon, Va. They have 5 children:
• Nina Breckenridge died unmarried.
• John Breckenridge married Kathleen Goodson.
• Alfred Breckenridge married Clyde Jackson and lived in Newport News, Va. They had 3 children.
• Nelly Breckenridge married St. John Spaulding and had one son.
• Elizabeth Breckenridge died unmarried and lived in Bristol, Tenn.
• Mary Anne Radford, second child of Susan M. Preston and William Radford, married Peter Copeland and lived near Fincastle, Va. They had 6 daughters:
• Elizabeth Copeland married McDowell Massie.
• Anne Copeland died unmarried in 1927.
• Maria Copeland>
• Sarah Copeland.
• Margaret Copeland.
• Susan Copeland married Wilmer Bowyer and had one child:
• Minnie Munford Bowyer married Thomas Hunter of Roanoke, Va. The lived in Hendersonville, N.C. and had 4 children, Thomas Hunter, Wilmer, Joseph and Jane Hunter.
• Mosley Radford, third child of Susan Preston and William Radford, died unmarried.
5. Sarah Preston, 5th child of John Preston and Mary Radford, married Henry Morton Bowyer, a lawyer of Botetourt Co., Va. They had 5 children:
• John Preston Bowyer b.ca.1829. Attended Virginia Military, Class of 1849. Died enroute to California in 1849 on the ship Glenmore.
• Thomas M. Bowyer, a Major in the Confederate Army, married Catherine Burwell of Bedford, Va. and had one daughter, Lillian Bowyer.
• Susan Preston Bowyer married Mr. Charles Thompson of S.C.. They had one child who died young.
• James Bowyer married Eliza Nelson of Bedford Co., Va. They had 3 children, Hugh, Page and Lulie Bowyer.
• Sarah L. Bowyer married Dr. Samuel Meredith of Richmond, Va. They had one child, Virginia P. Meredith.

John Preston, second child of Col. Wm. Preston and Susanna Smith, married secondly Mrs. Elizabeth Carrington Mayo. Elizabeth was born xxxx and died 10-10-1839. They had one son:

1. Edward Carrington Preston b.ca.1813 who married Miss Hawkins of Ky. He died of yellow fever in New Orleans on 10-15-1837 at 24 years of age. They had one child:
• Edward Carrington Preston II b.ca.1835 who became a planter in St. Landry Parish, La. Edward II was unmarried.


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