James
Woodmancy
Preston
Born in Meredosia, Morgan, Illinois, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Unnamed Infant Preston, Gabriel Preston, Silence Ann (Preston) Medlock, John Wesley Preston, Unnamed Infant Preston, Joseph Alvan Preston, William Randolph Preston, Margaret Elizabeth (Preston) Kehl, Charles Edward Preston, Sarah Amanda (Preston) Becker, Thomas Benjamin Preston, Wesley Ervin Preston, Rachel Elizabeth Preston, Emma Preston and Unnamed Infant Preston
Husband of
Isabella Jane (Whitlock) Preston
— married
4 Jul 1871 in White Hall, Greene, Illinois, United States
Descendants 
Father of
James Edwin Preston, Mary Josephine (Preston) Worrall, William Henry Preston, Margaret Jennette Preston, Gabriel Albert Preston, Rose Ann (Preston) Defrates, John Alonzo Preston, Joseph Otto Preston, Robert Benjamin Preston and Frederick Irvin Preston
Died
at age 80
in Jacksonville, Morgan, Illinois, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 31 Dec 2014
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Biography
James was born in 1850. He was the son of James Preston and Margaret Ruyle. As an adult, he worked as a barber in Athensville, Illinois. He passed away in 1930
BURIAL Gunn Cemetery Morgan County, Illinois, USA
Sources
- Find A Grave: Memorial #22181211
- Illinois State Marriage Records. Online index. Illinois State Public Record Offices.
- Year: 1880; Census Place: Greene, Illinois; Roll: 209; Page: 49C; Enumeration District: 079
- Year: 1900; Census Place: Athensville, Greene, Illinois; Page: 5; Enumeration District: 0017; FHL microfilm: 1240303
- Year: 1910; Census Place: Athensville, Greene, Illinois; Roll: T624_289; Page: 4A; Enumeration District: 0030; FHL microfilm: 1374302
- Year: 1920; Census Place: Athensville, Greene, Illinois; Roll: T625_368; Page: 9A; Enumeration District: 38
- Illinois Deaths and Stillbirths, 1916–1947. Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James 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 James:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James 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 James:
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~3.12%
~12.50%
Seth Potthast 
:
23andMe
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~3.12%
Amanda K Mills :
23andMe
+
AncestryDNA
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~1.56%
~6.25%
Kimberly Harrison :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T772914 [compare], FTDNA kit #429863
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~0.78%
Ronald Rutz :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch YH9935782 [compare], Ancestry member dukenukeem
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~0.78%
Rich Gilpin :
Autosomal DNA Test
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~0.39%
Fuller Fuller :
23andMe
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AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
John Lusch :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Carl Stallings :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Glenn Rutz :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch SS6553886 [compare], Ancestry member dukenukeem
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch SS6553886 [compare], FTDNA kit #958211
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Rejected matches › James Preston (abt.1850-) › James William Preston (abt.1857-1928) › James Dawson Preston (1849-1883)
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