Will of Sarah Herndon

Sarah Herndon named children, a granddaughter and other beneficiaries and appointed Zachariah Herndon and Edmond Herndon executors.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Sarah Herndon (printed SARAH HERNDON)

Dated

24 May 1802

Proved

August 1802 court

Family named

Lewis (son); James (son); George (son); Zachariah Herndon (son); Reuben (son); Delilah Rhodes (daughter); Mary Roberts (daughter); Sarah McCoy (daughter); Sarah Jordan (granddaughter)

Also left something

Edmond Herndon; Maryan Trice; Elizabeth Cole; Esther Barbee; Ruth Roberts (senior)

Executors

Zachariah Herndon; Edmond Herndon

Witnesses

Thomas Steele; Joseph Bilbo

Reading note: Sons surname printed only after Zachariah; some beneficiaries listed without relationships.

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 70.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 10.
• 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).