Edmonia Madison Randolph Preston
(1787-1847)
BIRTH
April 17, 1787
PLACE
NAME
Edmorcia Madison Randolph
DEATH
October 1, 1847
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Edmund Randolph
(1753-1813)
MOTHER
Elizabeth Nicholas Randolph
(1753-1810)
BROTHER
Peyton Randolph
(1779-1828)
SISTER
Susan Beverley Randolph Taylor
(1781-1846)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Edmonia Madison Randolph Preston (1787–1847) was a daughter of Edmund Randolph and Elizabeth Nicholas. She married lawyer Thomas Lewis Preston and lived in Lexington, Virginia. Their children were Elizabeth Randolph Cocke and John Thomas Lewis Preston, an organizer of the Virginia Military Institute. Her letters survive in Virginia Tech’s Smithfield Preston Foundation papers and the McDowell family papers. The name “Edmorcia” appears to be a transcription error.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Edmorcia Madison Preston’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Edmorcia Madison Preston is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Edmorcia Madison Preston died on Oct 1, 1847. Edmonia Madison Randolph Preston was a daughter of Edmund Randolph and Elizabeth Nicholas. She married lawyer Thomas Lewis Preston and lived in Lexington, Virginia. Their children were Elizabeth Randolph Cocke and John Thomas Lewis Preston, an organizer of the Virginia Military Institute. Her letters survive in Virginia Tech’s Smithfield Preston Foundation papers and the McDowell family papers. The name “Edmorcia” appears to be a transcription error. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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