Julia Jackson Preston

Died: Julia Preston, Stonewall Jackson Granddaughter, 104

Julia Jackson Christian Preston, a granddaughter of Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson, the legendary Confederate general, died Sept. 15, 1991 at the Presbyterian Home in High Point, N.C. She was 104 years old.

Mrs. Preston was born in San Diego on June 5, 1887. Her mother, Julia Thomas Jackson Christian, died when Mrs. Preston was a child and she was reared by her grandmother, Anna Morrison Jackson, General Jackson's second wife and widow.

She is survived by a son, Thomas Preston, of Silver Spring, Md.; three daughters, Mrs. Anna Shaffner of Fleetwood, N.C.; Mrs. Cortlandt Creech of Winston Salem, and Mrs. Julia McAfee of Jacksonville Beach, Fla.; 15 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

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