Will of Rosannah Cotner

Rosannah Cotner named grandson Aaron and other beneficiaries and left the remainder to Louis, Grace and Rosannah Gifford; two executors were appointed.

Kind of paper

Will

Testator

Rosannah Cotner (printed ROSANNAH COTNER)

Dated

22 December 1825

Proved

February 1826 court

Family named

Aaron Cotner (grandson)

Also left something

Barbary Hunt (relationship not stated); Eve Stonor (relationship not stated); Mary Alexander (relationship not stated); Peter Cotner (relationship not stated); Susannah Kinney (relationship not stated); Louis Cotner (relationship not stated); Grace Cotner (relationship not stated); Rosannah Gifford (relationship not stated)

Executors

Isaih Hornaday; Samuel Hymer

Witnesses

Micajah Thompson; Job Evans

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 E, page 107.
• Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 119.
• 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 80003, “Record of Wills, 1822–1851, Vols. E, F” (State Archives film).