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 | History of Roanoke County |  |
PRESTON EDWARD SIMPSON
The subject of this sketch was born in Roanoke
County, Virginia, September 5th, 1873, being a son of
J. M. and Mary E. (Pugh.) Simpson. His father is a
native of Pittsylvania
![illustration](https://iiif.lib.virginia.edu/iiif/uva-lib:111865/full/!1600,1600/0/default.jpg")
County, but he settled in
Roanoke County soon
after the Civil War. He
was a volunteer in the
first r