This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Preston Prester Ward Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Jg.2ADI/1345 Message Board Post: Looking for James Preston, believe he is in 1850 census, Wappello precinct, as a brickmaker, age 30 in 1850. Married Lucinda Ward, a widow , in 7/1854, in Stephenson Co. child Ella b.Galena (?) in 1855. Had children William b. 1840, IL and Mary Jane, b. 1844, IL. The 1850 census lists him as "Prester" Thanks, Darrell