Orange County Indexed
Will of John (x) Walker
Will Book D, page 523 · dated 17 February 1818 · proved May 1818
John Walker named Judy and eight children, including three minors, and appointed Herbert Collier, William Oldham and Judy Walker executors.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- John (x) Walker (printed JOHN (x) WALKER)
- Dated
- 17 February 1818
- Proved
- May 1818 court
- Family named
- Judy (wife); Benjamin Walker (son; under age); Nelly Walker (daughter); Polly Ryals (daughter); Rebeckah Walker (daughter); Betsy Walker (daughter); Letty Walker (daughter); Emily Walker (daughter; both under age); Lucy Walker (daughter; both under age)
- Executors
- Herbert Collier (friends); William Oldham (friends); Judy Walker (friends)
- Witnesses
- George Oldham; John (x) Oldham
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 523.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 80.
- 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).
