When Rebecca Jane Preston was born in November 1861, in Johnson, Kentucky, United States, her father, Thomas Preston, was 56 and her mother, Elizabeth Castle, was 37. She married Harvey Ellsworth Burns Conley on 30 March 1882, in Johnson, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Magisterial District 1 Rockcastle, Johnson, Kentucky, United States in 1900 and Paintsville, Johnson, Kentucky, United States for about 10 years.
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Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Historical Boundaries: 1871: Johnson, Kentucky, United States
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
English:
habitational name from one of the many places (most notably one in Lancashire) so called from Old English prēost ‘priest’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
occasionally from Middle English prest + son ‘son of the priest’. Priests were forbidden marriage but many produced illegitimate offspring.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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