Dade County, Missouri Biographies-Isaac PRESTON

History Of Hickory, Polk, Cedar, Dade And Barton Counties, Missouri, 1889, 
Published by Goodspeed, Pgs. 836, 837

Isaac Preston, a pioneer of Smith Township, was born in what is now Johnson 
County, Ky., in 1823.  His parents were Isaac and Sarah (Downing) Preston,
natives of Virginia, who went to Kentucky early in the present century, 
and in 1837 came to Missouri, settling in Dade County in 1840 on a small 
improvement on the west fork of the Limestone, where they spent the 
remainder of their lives, the father dying in 1848, and the mother in 1856.
Mr. Preston was a soldier under Gen. Harrison in the War of 1812, and was 
a well-to-do farmer and stock-raiser, one of ten children, had a very 
limited education, and remained at home until twenty-three years of age; 
he worked as an employé till he had a capital of $300 or $400, when he went 
to Fort Scott, then a Government post, where he engaged for five years in 
furnishing supplies to the troops, from which he made considerable money.  
He returned to Dade County, and in 1851 married Susan, daughter of William 
and Susan Fryer, who came to Dade County from North Carolina about 1841, 
where they both died.  He has a family of two sons and three daughters 
living. With the exception of about four years during the war, he has 
lived on his present farm of 360 acres since his marriage.  From 1862 till
the close of the war he served in the Confederate Army, first in a Texas 
regiment of cavalry, and afterward with Gen. Joseph Shelby in a Missouri 
regiment.  He is a Democrat, and himself and wife are Cumberland 
Presbyterians.  The children are: Christopher C., William; Nancy V., wife
of John Hoshaw, of Lawrence County; Louie B., wife of William R. Kates; 
and Sallie, wife of Oliver Murry.

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