Orange County Indexed
Will of William Horn
Will Book D, page 368
William Horn left his estate to Agnes for life and plantation interests to unmarried sons, naming married children and executor John Tapley Horn.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- William Horn (printed WILLIAM HORN)
- Dated
- As printed: “Will dated ?”
- Proved
- Date not given
- Family named
- Agnes (wife); John Tapley (three sons; unmarried); William Wesley (three sons; unmarried); Thomas Anderson Horn (three sons; unmarried); Nancy Ann Horn (unmarried children); Abel Horn (married children); Sarah Griffin (married children); Edith Younger (married children)
- Executor
- John Tapley Horn
- Witnesses
- G. Campbell; Peter Walker
- Land
- plantation
Names and places are given as the abstract writes them, spelling and all. This record has not been checked against the will book.
Where to find it
- Orange County Will Book D, page 368.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 54.
- Also listed in Mark Chilton, “Wills Recorded in Orange County, NC 1756–1893” (Wandering through the NC Piedmont, 2019), an index of the will books with references to the court minutes.
- Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 80002, “Record of Wills, 1794–1822, Vols. C, D” (State Archives film).
