This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Preston Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lg.2ADE/1197 Message Board Post: I am looking for the sisters and brothers and parents of Esther Preston who had 4 husbands: Brooks, Hooker, Grigsby, Haggart. I have a 1900 newspaper reference to a Mrs. E.F. Preston, a sister-in-law of Esther and Hanna, living in Paris, IL so I am looking in Edgar County Esther was born in western NY and came to Illinois about 1833. Her father, Benham, died 1835, place unknown. Her mother remarried, a Watterman or a Brown, and died about 1854-6, place unknown Esther and her sister Hannah and both lived in Joiliet, Rock Island and the Rock ford area. I'd apprecaite receiving info from the Paris IL area.