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Virginia Legislature. He married Miss
Randolph. daughter of Edmund Ran
dolph. Of Virginia. and left one son
and one daughter. viz: John (3) rhom>
as Lewis Preston. professor In the Vir-
ginia Military Institute. married Miss
Caruthers. and has two sons and two
daughters. and Elizabeth 90 Preston.
married William y. Cooke. OF Cum
berland County. Va. and had Edmund
"a, Thomas Cd Lewis Preston, ana
Preston tD Cooke, all of whom married
ard had children.
Afagaret t2) Preston, sixth daughter
of Colonel William Preston. of Smith.
field. married Colonel John Preston. of
Walnut Groye, Va, son of Robert Pres
ton. distant relative. and had nine
sons and five daughters, viz: Susan
CD, married Mr.. Ray. of Tennessee. and
left two daughters and 81 son. Robert
Cd. physician married Miss Mar
shall. of Philadelphia. and has two
James White, of Abingdon, and had
eight children Alfred (3), married
Miss Wiley, Of Tennessee; no children.
Ellen ts), married Mr.. Sheffey, of Viz
GINA, and had two children, John t3)
Preston. a lawyer, of Arkansas .un-
Louis: Walter (3,a lawyer. both un-
married. Jane (3). Elizabeth (3).
Francis go, James ts), Joseph ta)
and -Henry--history unknown to writer.
Ann t2). Preston, third daughter Of
John and Elizabeth Preston. born In
Ireland, a woman of excellent under
standing and unaffected piety. She mar
ried Francis Smith, who lived In Bote-
tourt County, Va, in 1882. and removed
to kentucky. where she died in 1919
aged seventy-four years. She had two
sons and four daughters. Elizabeth t3).
ID -.
ney-generpl for Kentucky. She left
two sons and two daughters, viz:
Francis 90 p. Blair. the distinguished
editor of the Globe, who married the
daughter of General Nathaniel Gist, and
had three sons and one daughter. viz:
Montgomery CD Blair a lawyer of
Missouri: Francis t6), James (5). and
Elizabeth.
William (4) Blair. captain in the
United States Army, married Miss
Craig, and left one son. Patrick I'D NJ.
Ward first, and second John Huunicutt,
and third, lob Stevenson: She had one
son., Abram Ward. Elizabeth (4) Jane
Bla married N. A; Spears, and had sew
erai children.
John fs) Smith, son of Ann (e) Pres
ton and Francis Smith, member of the
Kentucky Legislature, married Miss
Hart, daughter OF Captain Nathaniel
Hart, one Of the pioneers Of Kentucky.
and has two sons and five daughters,
viz: William (4) Preston Smith. mar
ried Miss Grayson, and had one daugh
ter, Sophousba (5); Grayson Preston
married G. III. Harrison: Isaac ca
Smith married his cousin. d daughter
of Richard Har., of Henderson, KY,
and had one child. Lucretia (4), Susan
"a. Lacey Cd Ann CD and Letitin ca
Susanna go Smith married William
Trigg. of Frankfort. son of Colonel
fatlira rrsG Ny1. n IL "a In
Blue Licks IN 1852; no children. lane
t33 Smith married George Madison. an
officer IN the late war and Governor
of Kentucky She left three sons and
two daughters. all of, whom died
young and unmarried, except Myra,
who married Andrew Alexander. ana
had Agatha, ADoline, Myra, George and
Andrew.
~ Preston, III.
William p. Smith, son OF Ann co
Preston and Francis Smith, was Cap
tain in the United States Army, died
unmarried, Agatha Smith, daughter OF
James. married DR.. Lewis MARSHALL. of
Woodford,, and had six sons and one
daughters: Thomas i, Marshall, law
yer and member of Congress-: william,
l.. Marshall, lawyer, OF Baltimore, mar
ried Miss Lee. of Virginia, and had one
child; Charles Marshall DR.. Alexander
Marshall, married Miss Mcdowell and
Had several children; John Campbell
Marshall; Agatha and Edward Mar
shall.
Z Mary (2) Preston. fourth daughter of
John and Elizabeth Preston, was a
woman OF superior understanding and
highly cultivated, She married John
Kentucky, where she died In 1914. She
had BENJAMIN Howard member of
Congress from Kentucky, and Governor
of the Territory of Missouri, where he
died in 1871, He married Miss Mason,
daughter of General S. T. Mason. of
Virginia. She left no children. Eliza
beth Howard married Edward Payne.
of Fayette County, and left six sons:
Edward, Daniel, McCnrty, Benjamin,
Thomas Jefferson, John B., and James
B. Payne, all of whom married, except
BENJAMIN. who died young. Mary
Howard married Alexander Parker, of
Lexington, and had Richard Is. Parker,
who married Miss Rice. and one daugh-
ter, Mary. who married Thomas T.
Crittonden, Secretary of State and Cir
cult Court judge of Kentucky. who had
one daughter, Mary Crittenden. who
Alexander p, Thomas BENJAMIN and
Robert, and Sarah Howard. Margaret
Howard married Robert Wiclsliffe, an
eminent lawyer and member of the
Kentucky Legislature. She left three
daughters. viz: Sally Wickliffe, who
married Aaron X. Woolley, member of
the Kentucky Legislature. Circuit
Court Judge. and professor in the Law
School of Transatlantic. She has six
children: Mary Wickliffe, unmarried;
Margaret, married William Preston, of
Louisville, and has one daughter;
Charles, John, BENJAMIN, died unmar-
ried; Robert Wickiiffe, lawyer and
member of the Kentucky Legislature.
y Letter With Preston Pamphlet.
New Orleans, June 10, 1899.
My Dear Mr.. Harrison.-No apology is
needed for your letter Of June 5, which
/ received this morning. it having been
forwarded to me. live in Louisville.
and am only here for short visit. You
have boen misInformed as to my having
a portrait of my great grandfather.
Francis Smith, do not believe there
Is any picture eXtant; at least. 1
know of none. There is ayportrait of a
son OF Francis Smith, William Preston
Smith, who was my grandmothers
brother. She owned this picture, and
after her death the picture remained
at her home, Ruckpond, near Versailles,