Confusion over birth year; censuses have him born around 1848 or 1849. His obituary puts him around 1844.
In different censuses, he is seen as Jackson or as Preston.
Obituary says Jackson was a coopersmith and a onetime Marshall of the town of Connersville, Indiana.
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