Adopted by Frank Preston & Laura M. Birch after parents were killed somewhere between Texarkana, Texas and Malvern, Arkansas. Has an older brother (4-5 years older) he never found.
Sources
1880 Census, Arkansas, Hot Spring County, Fenter, Age 12, Parents info is blank, living with Frank Preston, 33, born in Arkansas
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William: