Will of Hezekiah (x) Rhodes

Hezekiah Rhodes named Alementor, sons and granddaughters and left cattle; Wesley Rhodes and Absolom Alston were executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Hezekiah (x) Rhodes (printed HEZEKIAH (x) RHODES)

Dated

8 June 1816

Proved

November 1816 court

In the court minutes

• Will proved, November 1816 term

Family named

Alementor Rhodes (wife); Wesley (son); William (son); Mary Linnington Rhodes (granddaughter, daughter of Wesley Rhodes); Lucy Hall (granddaughter); Alsy C. Hall (granddaughter)

Executors

Wesley Rhodes; Absolom Alston

Witnesses

L. Alston; Elizabeth (x) Cabe ?

Money and goods

cow and heifer

Also named

Henry Hall (cow and heifer now in possession)

Reading note: Elizabeth (x) Cabe ? questioned on page.

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 494.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 74.
• 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).