Orange County Indexed
Will of Henry Neal
Will Book E, page 113 · dated 20 April 1824
Henry Neal named Lydia and relatives, directed property divided among children and Nancy Furguson, and appointed James Webb executor.
- Kind of paper
- Will
- Testator
- Henry Neal (printed HENRY NEAL)
- Dated
- 20 April 1824
- Proved
- 1826 (no day or month given)
- A second reading
- Mark Chilton’s index of the will books gives the probate as May 1826. Check the will book to settle it.
- Family named
- Lydia (wife); Martha Turner (daughter); Henry Turner (son of James); Nancy Furguson (my Wife’s sister); James Turner (husband of Martha Turner)
- Executor
- James Webb
- Witnesses
- F.B.Phillips; W. Whitted
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 113.
- Abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of Wills Recorded in Orange County, North Carolina, 1800–1850 (1958), page 120.
- 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).
