This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/INB.2ACE/1417 Message Board Post: I am trying to locate info on the family of John Preston bn Oct 1855 OH & Ida Belle bn Jan 1868 OH. 1895 Iowa State census John, Ida B. & Clarence Preston are in Shelby Co, IA. 1900 census finds them in Deer Lodge Co, Anaconda twp but by 1920 they are in Missoula Co, Orchard Homes twp and widow Ida Belle Preston is still there on the 1930 Census. The family bible I have copies of state my John Preston died 17 Oct 1926/27 but no location is given. I believe this is the same John Preston and he must have died there in Missoula Co, MT. I dont know when or where Ida Belle died. John Preston & Ida Belle had Glen Preston bn Dec 1895 in IA & Charles R. Preston bn 1898 in Montana. John Preston with 1st wife had Clarence Preston bn 1885 in IA. All three sons are with them on the 1900 MT census. Charles Raymond Preston, father John Preston mother Ida Belle died 30 apr 2001 at Lewis & Clark Co, resident of Missoula Co, MT at age 102. This age/parents at death matches the Charles R. Preston listed above. I found this info on the Ancestry.com death/SS records. Would really like to be able to document if this is my John Preston that died in 1926/1927. I have tried to research for a death/cemetery record myself but Montana records are very hard to find on the internet. Thank you for your time, Marsha