Orange County Indexed
Will of Eli Lindsey
Will Book D, page 483 · dated 21 April 1816 · proved May 1816
Eli Lindsey provided for Jane and children and appointed Jane and William McCluskey executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Eli Lindsey (printed ELI LINDSEY)
- Dated
- 21 April 1816
- Proved
- May 1816 court
- In the court minutes
- Family named
- Jane (wife); Josiah Bowman Lindsey (son); Martin Luther Lindsey (son); John (son); Robert (son); James Lindsey (son); Ann Hodge (daughter); Polly Clark (daughter); Sally Hodge (daughter); Eunice Lindsey (daughter)
- Executors
- Jane (wife); William McCluskey
- Witnesses
- William Woods; J. Allison; John McDade
- Money and goods
- $3 each; bed & furniture
- Also named
- Willie Shaw (Esq.; money now in hands)
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 483.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 72.
- 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).
