A Sesquicentennial History of the Green River Missionary Baptist Church
1836 - 1986, Written and Compiled by Wendell Holmes Rone, Sr., For the One
Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Church, 1987. By
permission of author. Ohio County.

SANFORD PRESTON, as previously noticed on page 32, had married Charter
Member Mary Ann "Polly" Rogers (1815-1843), on November 2nd, 1837.  They
were lettered out shortly thereafter, only to return by letter to the
Church in 1840.  They had three sons.  After her death in 1843, he was
married a second time. His second wife, Eliza, became a member by Christian
experience and baptism in June, 1856. He, his wife, and youngest son,
Jonathan L. Preston, were lettered out in September, 1858 when they moved
to Valley Mills, Texas.  Previous to this he had served the Church as a
Deacon from July 31, 1853; having been ordained by Baptist Ministers Alfred
Taylor and James F. Austin.  He was also a Church Trustee at the same time.
 In the years 1853-1858 he served as a Messenger from the Church to the
Gasper River Association.

Preston Rogers Taylor Austin
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